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Show 64 collective behavior, and the lack of any specific typical situations for the rise and growth of explaining and value-oriented a and in the structural strain of the Revolution of Iran, it analysing is necessary and sufficient to religious and/or revolutionary movement, explore the political, economic, social, legal conditlons which existed in Iran prior to the Revolution. Political The Qajar dynasty could Not because of its inherent the a country which country so was a in the corruption, but because of the disintegration of characters, system of the government. and so so firmly stereotyped personal element, as might "In destitute of forms in the immemorial be ascendant, and the government of Persia • arbitrary survive in its absolute monarch. consequence of the tradition of the East, the the longer backward in constitutional progress, and statutes and largely no expected, is is little else than 1 exercise of scale from the sovereign authority by on a series of units in to the herdsman of a a descending petty village" (Ramazani, 1966:34). Wars between Iran and other England, erupted as situation These worse. sketched above. the Persian government, deposited large part a countries, particulary Russia and wars but Domestic resulted in not a wars only goodly number the made the military political defeat of of unfair treaties which of northern Iran into the hands of the Russians- and |