Council of the Islamic Revolution

Council of the Islamic Revolution
Date formed12 January 1979 (1979-01-12)[1]
Date dissolved20 July 1980 (1980-07-20)[1]
People and organisations
Head of stateRuhollah Khomeini
Ettela'at newspaper, the official organ of the Council

The Council of the Islamic Revolution (Persian: شورای انقلاب اسلامی, romanized: Šūrā-ye enqelāb-e eslāmi) was a group formed by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini to manage the Iranian Revolution on 10 January 1979, shortly before he returned to Iran.[2] "Over the next few months there issued from the council hundreds of rulings and laws, dealing with everything from bank nationalization to nurses' salaries."[3] Its existence was kept a secret during the early, less secure time of the revolution,[4] and its members and the exact nature of what the council did remained undisclosed to the public until early 1980. Some of the council's members like Motahhari, Taleqani, Bahonar, Beheshti, Qarani died during Iran–Iraq War or were assassinated by the MKO during the consolidation of the Iranian Revolution. Most of those who remained were put aside by the regime.[5]

  1. ^ a b Mohammadighalehtaki, Ariabarzan (2012). Organisational Change in Political Parties in Iran after the Islamic Revolution of 1979. With Special Reference to the Islamic Republic Party (IRP) and the Islamic Iran Participation Front Party (Mosharekat) (PhD thesis). Durham University. p. 92. Archived from the original on 10 October 2017. Retrieved 11 June 2017.
  2. ^ Bakhash, Shaul, Reign of the Ayatollahs, Basic Books, 1984, p.64
  3. ^ Bakhash, Shaul, Reign of the Ayatollahs, Basic Books, 1984, p.65
  4. ^ during the time of Khomeini's arrival in Tehran (1 February 1979) the council was described as "secret" by Baqer Moin in his book Khomeini, p.200)
  5. ^ Momen, Moojan, An Introduction to Shi'i Islam, Yale University Press, 1985, p. 290