A Critical Analysis of John Furan Mixed Theorization

The Iranian revolution was so rapid and surprising that almost all political observers, journalists, diplomat and even prominent thinkers and theoreticians of revolution were amazed. The rapidity of this event – toppling a regime which considered itself the fifth greatest nonatomic power of the world – and lack of a theoretical framework for analyzing it, paved the way for the emergence of a generation of theoreticians. This revolution occurred so astonishingly that it refuted most western theories; some thinkers called it “a revolution for all theories”, and some others, as western writers justified, changes and mixed their theories, hastily calledit “darning theories”. By mixing some old theories, John Furan cited five important reasons for revolution, a successful combination of which leads to its success: dependent development, oppressive government, the formation of resistance political culture, sudden economic recession and close relationship with the world. Although this theory seems well-founded, because of the nature of the Islamic Revolution, it cannot be true about this revolution.