Reza Shah and modernization after WW1 The Different Sects and the Different

Ideologies. Conflicts between Religion and State Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini The Shah and the Western Countries “Americanization Colonization” The Fall of the Shah

The Riots The Islamic Ideology The American Embassy Episode. The Velayat- e Faqih The autocracy Rule

It is based on the dictum of Velayat-e faqih Khomeini is Fatiqih for life The aspect of Government for the people or by

Government by the people Popular and divine sovereignty co-exist uneasily in

an institutional structure that combines republican and theocratic elements.

The governance of the faqih is rational and extrinsic matter.

Foreign Policy( Islamic republic, Independence) Industralization consultants not advisors

Why women Revolted? The “Nightmare” The Koran and laws Technology The Media and Islam

Spread of Revolutionary Iran as rooted in the Koran

Non -Aligned Movement in a world with one super power

Why non-Align movement? “Neither East or West (only) an Islamic

republic. No Military bases in Iran

Khameini Rude Awakening. Khatami, conservative or democratic??? The Hardliners Conservatives Parliamentary Elections: Right or Privilege? The Students The Islamic Military Organizations The Educated modern Elite's. “The Great Satan”

The Islamic republic is a contradictory phenomenon in both theory and practice.

The Government is not really an Islamic republic

Is there some light on Democracy in Iran. Another Revolution In Iran? The Final Thought….