Socio-Political Development in the Islamic Republic of Iran (1979 -2017)

This book is a research work in describing and analyzing socio-political developments after the Islamic Revolution in Iran and identifying the dimensions, consequences, and factors affecting these developments in a period of forty years. In this book, on the one hand, the formation of the government, new institutions, and structures after the revolution is explained and the agents and forces influencing the developments of this historical period are introduced, and on the other hand, the complex and close relationship between economic, social and cultural change and political developments is discussed. In the meantime, the following questions will be answered: What measures were taken in the years after the revolution to establish, stabilize and consolidate the new political system and advance the goals of the Islamic Revolution in Iran in various fields? How the developments in various political, economic, social, and cultural fields in the country were formed, and under what influence? Finally, what successes has the Islamic Republic achieved in consolidating its goals in the past few decades, and what challenges has it faced from within and without?