What caused the Islamic Revolution in Iran?

by [deleted]

From what I've seen, Iran was NOT a country where conditions were of the kind that traditionally trigger revolutions. The country was reasonably wealthy and the quality of life was improving. The Shah was a good ruler. The country was at peace. Then what caused the revolution?

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I'm really not too sure where you got some of these ideas from, I certainly wouldn't call the Shah "a good ruler", although that does not mean you should start calling him evil. By a lot of metrics, the country is doing better now than formely. Ranging from Literacy rates being higher for both genders, labour force participation and even a massive increase in such as basic need as piped drinking water. (40% to 96%)

There's a couple of links to answers in this link, figured it'd be easier to link to that than right a new comment out.

There's also this great answer by u/75812 here

You can see several statistics in this post from r/badhistory by u/tropical_chancer