The historic Iranian Revolution took place in 1979. Iran was not always a strict Islamic state with a Theocracy. They were once ruled by a man known as The Shah. He began to waste money, created the Yes, Your Majesty party, attempted to modernization, and created the SAVAK. Oil is Iran’s number one export. Without it their government would nearly bankrupt and taxes would be much higher. It is easy to see why people got upset when The Shah began selling oil at a higher cost, but things didn’t get better. The standard of living was actually decreasing. It worried people a lot that they were doing so poorly. These people wanted to know what the government was doing with the money they were getting. They didn’t believe The Shah was spending their hard earned money very well. The projects he was funding were not what the people wanted. The Shah also gave a lot of money to people who weren’t supposed to get it. It worried people that while they should have been doing well, they were still declining. The Shah’s lack of financial incompetence led to inflation, the amount money is worth dec...