Despite the popular belief that the 1979 revolution in Iran was fundamentally an Islamic revolution, the facts are that it was a broad popular movement in which all social currents in Iran operated; On the way to the revolution, in the streets of the cities, they combined forces – groups of seculars, women, democrats, religious, students, urban, rural, and all of them together fought a non-violent struggle against the oppression and corruption of the regime of Reza Pahlavi, the faceless and arrogant man who demanded to be called the king of kings, and which resulted in intolerable social, economic and class gaps in the justice-seeking Iranian society.
In this sense, Ayatollah Khomeini was the humble opposite of the Shah who externalized his wealth and status, and this is the quality that brought him to the head of the revolution much more than being a devout Shia Muslim. They were in Iran even though they called Khomeini the Iranian Gandhi during the days of the revolution. Only after the Islamic regime was established, many in Iran understood the distance between the Ayatollahs, led by Khomeini, and social and public justice.
Women were the first to realize this in 1979 because they were the first to pay the price of the Islamic terror regime, which only shortly after the revolution already violated their rights, required them to wear the hijab, reduced their right to divorce, reduced their right to work and earn a living, and more. The fact that women are now leading the struggle against the regime is probably related to those days of disappointment in 1979. In this sense, the Iranian women are actually trying to correct the deficiencies of the 1979 revolution, and one can see in their struggle the attempt to complete the 1979 revolution, this time in accordance with their and the Iranian public's true desire for social and economic justice, and not because of a clever maneuver by Khomeini and the pious Shiites.
If the previous revolution in 1979 took place with a combination of forces, it is possible that this condition is required to hold a new or complementary revolution in Iran in 2022 as well; And according to what we see in the photos coming from Iran, large masses of these communities, for example students, Shiites, villagers, are still absent and do not march in the streets alongside the women, and therefore it is difficult to assume that the current occurrence will lead to a revolution (although the buds of student groups have begun to appear in the streets in recent days, and if the phenomenon expands to the villages , the estimate may change). In this sense, the Iranian women fighters can bring about a revolution if they are able to sway to their side students, villagers, Shiites, public figures, and other groups that participated as centers of power in the 1979 revolution.
The second rule that stems from the 1979 revolution, is the demand that arose from the street for a popular revolution that is not directed by foreigners, but rather the result of the will of the Iranian people (although even today we have to ask who the ones were who organized the buses from the villages to the city centers in 1979 for example). A large part of the anger that brought Khomeini to power, and caused the secularists and democrats to give up their views in order to bring the revolution against Riza Pahlavi to success, that is, to crown a pious and cruel Shia, was the anger against the USA, for interfering in Iranian politics and leading to the overthrow of Prime Minister Mossadeq in 1953, and to crown In his place, the person they preferred Riza Pahlavi.