The Iranian Revolution was a genuine revolution akin to the French and Russian ones.

Evidence

For better or for worse—and from the start there have been different views on this—what happened in Iran can be seen as a revolution in the classical sense: a mass movement with wide popular participation that resulted in a major shift in economic as well as political power and that inaugurated—or, perhaps more accurately, continued—a process of vast social transformation. — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans, 1117 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

In Iran under the Pahlavis, as in France under the Bourbons and in Russia under the Romanovs, a major process of change was already under way, and had advanced to a point at which it required a shift in political power in order to continue. And in the Iranian revolution, as in the others, there was also the possibility that something might happen whereby the process of change was deflected, perverted, or even annulled. — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans, 1118 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Iran’s revolution structurally parallels pre-revolutionary France and Russia. — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans: Interpreting…, 1118; The Iranian revolution may be replaying French and Russian revolutionary phases — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans: Interpreting…, 1605; Iran’s 1979 revolution was a classical mass revolution — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans: Interpreting…, 1117 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Iran’s revolution structurally parallels pre-revolutionary France and Russia. #corroborates (0.95) — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans, 1118
• Iran’s 1979 revolution was a classical mass revolution #corroborates (0.95) — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans, 1117