Iranian Revolution, Could one classify the Iranian revolution as an Islamic fundamentalist movement in gener?
The end outcome of the Iranian revolution was fundamentalist, but the lead up and actual revolution were both fundamentalist and secular. There were multiple groups who had been protesting the Shah, beginning with intellectual socialists. However, as the protests became more heated, and revolution neared, Ayatollah Khomenei was able to dominate the revolutionary movement in exile, and by the time that revolution was fulfilled, the communists and socialists had no say in what kind of government would be established in place of the Shah.
