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The Islamic Republic and the
World
Global Dimensions of the Iranian
Revolution
Maryam Panah
Pluto Press
London • Ann Arbor, MI
First published 2007 by Pluto Press
345 Archway Road, London N6 5AA
and 839 Greene Street, Ann Arbor, MI 48106
www.plutobooks.com
Copyright © Maryam Panah 2007
The right of Maryam Panah to be identified as the author of this work has
been asserted by her in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and
Patents Act 1988.
British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library
Hardback
ISBN-13 978 0 7453 2622 1
ISBN-10 0 7453 2622 6
Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data applied for
10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
Designed and produced for Pluto Press by
Curran Publishing Services, Norwich
Printed and bound in India.
Dedicated to my children, Leyla and Kilian.
Contents
Chronology
ix
Acknowledgements
xi
Introduction
1
1.
The Iranian Revolution in international context: a
theoretical perspective
4
A theoretical framework: causes and consequences
6
Revolution and the Islamic Republic: an analysis
13
2.
The Iranian Revolution: internal and external causes
16
Historical legacy of foreign influence in Iran
16
Socio-economic development and structural change
21
The revolutionary coalition
28
Evolution of a revolutionary discourse: international
influences
32
3.
Populism and the Revolution: domestic and
international impact 42
Populism and ‘Khomeinism’ 42
The revolutionary centrifuge: a fragmenting coalition 44
Khomeinism: nationalism, anti-imperialism, universalism 47
Khomeinism’s decisive moment: 1979–80 51
The domestic consequences 57
International consequences 65
Export of revolution: Iraq, Palestine, Lebanon and the Gulf 69
4.
International containment of the Islamic Republic
76
After the hostage crisis
76
The Iraqi response: onset of the Iran–Iraq war
80
Regional policies of containment: the Gulf states
and beyond
82
The United States and the West: policy in the 1980s
86
Exporting revolution: a unique failure
93
5.
Populism, war and the state
97
‘War populism’ and revolutionary images of the
international system
97
Popular mobilisation and war contributions
101
War, populism and repression
104
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