The Iranian Revolution overthrew the Pahlavi monarchy of Mohammad Reza Shah between January 1978 and February 1979, when Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini returned to Tehran on 1 February 1979 after fifteen years in exile. A broad coalition of religious, leftist, and liberal opposition took part in the uprising, but the Islamic Republic established that March consolidated power around Khomeini's own doctrine of velayat-e faqih, and the new state moved quickly against the secular and leftist groups that had joined it against the Shah.
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Iran's modern theocratic state dates to the 1979 revolution.
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Khomeini directed the Iranian revolution of 1978 and 1979, established the Islamic Republic of Iran in April, 1979, and ruled the country thereafter for ten years.
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Khomeini directed the Iranian revolution of 1978 and 1979, established the Islamic Republic of Iran in April, 1979, and ruled the country thereafter for ten years.
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7 January 1978 (1978-01-07)
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Beginning of protests (January)
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