ABSTRACT
Having described the political conflicts which ended with the ascendancy of the Islamic Republican Party and the non-liberal populist clergy, we now arrive at an analysis of the regime they built. Taking full advantage of their mass base of support, the revolutionary clergy broke their alliance with the liberals in the power bloc and tried to assert their hegemony by undertaking mass mobilisation and attempting to solve the 'social question'. Hence within the capacity of the men of property who directed the revolution, the new regime took a radical direction.
