Aftermaths of Islamic revolution of Iran
March 26, 2010
At the end of Pahlavi`s government, Ayat-ullah Khomeini came back from Paris and became the supreme leader of Iran. He was anti-secular and anti-western. Islamic revolution brought Islamic fundamentalism because Khomeini was in power and he was a fundamentalist so, Iran under his rule became more prone towards fundamentalism. One of the foremost and chief outcomes of the revolution was that, Iran soon after the revolution transform its government and cut its relations with different countries mostly with non-Muslim states i.e. USA, Britain, France, Germany etc and started supporting different radical groups in the region of Arab countries mainly to the group based upon shiati ideology; Hezbollah. Moreover, Iran had strengthened its diplomatic relations with Syria and Libya.
It was an era of cold war, when both the super powers were involved in maintaining their influence on most of the regions of the world. Iranian revolution brought rigorous and ruthless outcomes for both the super powers; USA and USSR. As Iran broke up its relations with USA so, USA got alarmed and anxious due to dissimilar reasons. Iran became a fundamentalist state and was the follower of shiati Islam, so, America was afraid of Muslim’s shiati policy. Moreover, one of the factors for America was that of communist ideology which could lead towards domino theory. And with the help of communist ideology soviet could reach towards warm water.
On the other hand soviets threats were also there. Soviet Union was a neighboring state of Iran; both the states were having no excellent relations. They had different conflicts with each other along with some border conflicts. Soviets were afraid of revolution because of the reason that revolution might affect Turkey and Azerbaijan because the ideology was so attracting mainly for the Muslim countries. So, the situation could be complicated to handle. One of the other reason was that during soviet invasion of Afghanistan, Iran opened its borders for the Afghani refugees, main reason of Iran’s this act was that Iran wanted to spread its shiati ideology towards other countries of south Asia as well.
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After the revolution Iran hostage crisis were also held, in which 53 Americans were held hostage for 444 days. This crisis ended with several economic sanctions on Iran by the US officials.
Iranian revolution ended with the start of Iran-Iraq war of lengthy period of eight years. War brought severe aftermaths for both the participants. These were the certain immediate aftermaths of the great Iranian revolution that affected diverse imperative regions of the world.
Written by QAISER JAHAN
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