The political unrest of the early 70's in Iran was due to the pushing of Westernized ideals and morals into an extremely conservative culture. They flat out were not ready for miniskirts or bathing suits for women or adult beverages for men. Sports were tolerated in limited amounts and MTV was the very definition of evil. (I might agree on the MTV thing)
So they had a call to religious resistance of all the wickedness from Western Cultures....the Shaw(version of President) was exiled and the war with Iraq was cooled somewhat.
The focus being on the minority Kurdish people who are always ready to re-unite in each of these countries in the Middle East under one flag. These Kurds would then become an Economic Superpower(based on oil and nat gas)....which would result also in a military superpower and would control all oil in the middle East.
During all of this in the 60's and 70's the population started becoming highly educated. There were holdouts of course which prioritized ignorance of everything else but the Koran.
They saw the influence of education as a complete abandonment of morality. (It doesn't but that was the marketing strategy)
Some of this religious fervor was fueled by operatives from the CIA and Iraq inadvertently....because we wanted a lot of mistrust between all of these nations to keep the oil flowing.
The Democrat Party has a completely different agenda and way of managing foreign relations than the Republicans and American influence in the region has certainly made a mess of things. Certainly the changing of Parties in the White House has caused a huge amount of confusion in the region with people who still are miffed about the Crusades from almost a thousand years ago.
Nope. Iranian women have always been very stylish. The problem that drove the revolution was land reform and student protests. The US intelligence was very poor and part of the elite circle around the Shah. The US was blindsided.
Like many revolutions the hardliners jumped in and took over.
I take it you have never been to Iran. The oil business hates a warzone.
British petroleum was still cheating Iran on oil revenue... paying 13 cents when every other country was getting 50 cents.