Incapacitated by Education: The Role of Education in the Fall of Mohammed Reza Shah
Journal: KU ScholarWorks (The University of Kansas)
Year: 2010

The Iranian revolution of 1979 was a cataclysmic event that forever changed the course of history. While the events that preceded the overthrow of Mohammed Reza Shah Pahlavi have been studied at great length, there is one aspect in particular that has been ignored, education. This paper seeks to examine the adverse effects that the problems within the educational sector had on the fall of Mohammed Reza. Although he invested an enormous amount of time and money into creating a strong educational