The Revolution That Leads to the Great Retrogression of Society -- Iran Islamic Revolution

Many people sigh when they see the contrast before and after the Islamic Revolution in Iran. Before 1979, the classic image was a beautiful Iranian girl wearing a bikini to bask in the sun. After that, only Iranian women in burqas could be seen. Iranian women could still show their whole faces. Afghan women only showed their eyes from top to bottom. The whole society returned from openness to extreme conservatism, Women's status fell from heaven to earth.

In 1979, the Iranians launched a revolution to overthrow the secular regime of the Shah, and supported the religious leader Khomeini to assume power. After 15 years of exile, millions of people came to the airport to greet him back. Khomeini and his followers established the Islamic Republic. Although they had made three commitments - separation of church and state, everyone could have money, and all people could have free housing and medical care, political stability was completely thrown out of the window. Instead, they formulated a constitution based on the Islamic Shariah law, and Iran became an extremely conservative religious theocracy country.

Although it seems to the outside world that the secular Salad regime has many advantages. In 1963, it forced the white revolution, implemented land reform, developed industry and women's rights, making Iran a modern country, but reform means redistribution of interests, the Islamic revolution means that the reform dividend was taken by the elite, and the public broke out mindless enthusiasm against reform under economic and political pressure, Only then did the Islamic revolution of great retrogression break out.

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Before the revolution, the Sha'a regime was autocratic towards the interior and suppressed the opposition wantonly. The bureaucracy was extremely corrupt, which aroused the pressure of the public to demand change. Because of the rise in oil prices, Iran's economy grew rapidly, but because the powerful and powerful shared most of the oil dividends, the public became poorer, the income gap led to an increasingly divided society, and the elite became increasingly divorced from social reality. Religion is always the most conservative force in society. The increasingly secularization of the upper elites weakens religious power and influence. Iranian bikini girls are just the self congratulation of the elite. Religious conservatives, both big and small, stop organizing the public to fight back.

Almost all the middle and lower classes support Khomeini. Farmers account for the majority of the population, which is the basic plate with the greatest religious influence. The land reform has caused many farmers to lose their land, and the poorer countryside has caused farmers' dissatisfaction; Secularization first broke out of religion, and religious leaders mobilized opposition forces through mosques all over the country; College students and intellectuals are dissatisfied with the shah regime. Workers and businessmen are the same, but the most radical are the poor and unemployed; Nationalists believe that the pro Western Shah regime betrayed national sovereignty and interests, and many dignitaries transferred funds overseas.

In the final analysis, these opponents failed to share the reform dividend. The huge political and economic pressure triggered the social resonance of opposition. Since there was no reform that could enable the public to share the dividend, the public with no choice could only seize Khomeini, the religious leader, as a life-saving straw. As a result, the life of Iranians did not become better, but generally became poorer, Completely lose the opportunity of reform, religious theocracy is more able to restrain and hinder social development than autocratic monarchy.

The real lesson is that the Shah regime pushed social reform to maximize the interests of the powerful, failed to adjust the income distribution according to the actual situation, and kept the reform results, which proves that the forced social reform is not necessarily useful. The fundamental driving force is to let the elite and the public share the reform dividend. Otherwise, the damaged social masses will make random choices and oppose the Shah regime without consideration, Is it the responsibility of the Shah regime that Iran returns to the theocratic society? The responsibility of supporting Khomeini public? Or the religious responsibility represented by Khomeini?

In the final analysis, Iran's current situation is due to the incompetence and corruption of the Shah regime. The dignitaries intercepted the reform dividends that the public should have received, and only coveted the immediate interests to bury Iran's bright future.

It can also answer why Iran's reform failed? Because the interests of reform have not been transmitted to the public!

You can also make a judgment that any reform fails because dividends are not transmitted to the public!