ABSTRACT
This chapter deals with the contemporary political issues that have developed in Iran during the post-revolution, post-Khomeini era. While the events of 1979 have been surpassed in the western imagination by the fall of Communism, the Iranian revolution remains one of the most significant events of the twentieth century. With the acceptance of the Islamic constitution and the establishment of the Islamic Republic, the theocracy craved by Khomeini and his followers almost wholly established. The decline in the economic sector was not the only result of the hostage crisis, pluralist politics was also a casualty in the immediate post-revolutionary period. Bazargan's resignation enabled Khomeini to appoint the Revolutionary Council as the caretaker government. With the Council as the sole decision-making power in the State. Secular politicians and Islamic intellectuals alike saw the forthcoming Presidential Elections as their final attempt to limit the control of the forces of theocracy.
