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Iranian Revolution

1979 popular uprising that overthrew Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, establishing an Islamic republic and fundamentally reshaping Middle Eastern geopolitics.

Date 1979 Location Iran Mentions 20 Tags EventIranPolitics

Iranian Revolution refers to the popular uprising in Iran that led to the overthrow of Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi in February 1979. The CIA had provided upbeat predictions that the Shah would manage to cling to power, despite a trenchant analysis from Uri Lubrani, a former Israeli ambassador to Iran, in 1978, which stated that the Shah would not survive. The CIA's embarrassingly inept reporting on Iran forced the American leadership to turn once again to Israeli help in trying to anticipate world events.1

Sources

  1. Hersh, Seymour M. The Samson Option: Israel's Nuclear Arsenal and American Foreign Policy. Random House, 1991. Chapter 1. ↩

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