Iran had a revolution in which the Shah of Iran was deposed and replaced by an Islamic Dictatorship.
IRAN had the Islamic Revolution in 1979.
Government programs discoruaging stagflation
Government programs discoruaging stagflation
Iranian radicals holding U.S. hostages
Iranian radicals holding U.S. hostages
Iranian radicals holding U.S. hostages
World peace
The Iranian Monarchy was replaced with an Islamist Regime.The Iranian people, most of them traditional or secular Muslims revolted all across Iran against the Iranian Shah or King. After the Shah abdicated in the face of these protests, the Ayatollahs were able to consolidate power and create the Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Iran which vested the Religious Fundamentalists with political power.
The late 1970s refers to the years in the latter half of the decade between 1970 and 1979. So the late 1970s will be the years 1976 to 1979.
shifting from a command economy to a mixed economy
The overthrow of the Shah (Reza Pahlavi) in the late 1970s, and the takeover of the Iranian government by Ayatollah Khomenei, culminating in the Iran hostage crisis, led to this event.
The Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan in the late 1970s.