Pahlavi's rentier government and the formation of the discourse of the Islamic revolution

Subject Areas : Political philosophy of the Islamic Revolution

Majid Ostovar ¹ , Hossein Mahboob ²

1 - Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Rasht Branch, Islamic Azad University, Rasht, Iran
2 - Graduate of Master of Political Science

Received: 2022-06-19 Accepted : 2022-11-15 Published : 2022-10-23

Keywords: Islamic Revolution, Oil, Imam Khomeini, Rentier Government, the second Pahlavi diet,

Abstract :

Examining the issue of the rentier government from different perspectives is necessary to understand the functioning of the Pahlavi rentier government. The innovation of the current research is to examine the impact of the rentier government on the change of the political and social field of the 1950s and the construction of the discourse of the Islamic Revolution centered on Imam Khomeini (RA). Therefore, the purpose of this research is to try to explain the influence of the Pahlavi rentier government in the formation of the discourse of the Islamic Revolution of Iran. The main question of the current research is why the Pahlavi II rentier government in Iran failed to implement its development policy and the Islamic Revolution of Iran emerged? In response to the main question of the current research, after theoretical discussions, the development performance of that government in Iran was examined. The findings of the research show that the performance of the rentier Pahlavi government changed the political and social field of the 1950s and the emergence of new political, social and economic demands in the society. Imam Khomeini's revolutionary speech was one of the most important consequences of the rentier government's performance in this decade. The method of qualitative research is done in the way of historical investigation.