An Analysis of “Islamic Revolution” based on Imam Khomeini’s Anti-Colonial Theory

This paper, produced to study Islamic Revolution with a descriptive-analytical methodology and based on Imam Khomeini’s anti-colonial theory, intends to analyze Islamic Revolution in world order. This issue has its background in the recent century developments in underdeveloped societies. The principal hypothesis of the paper states that formation of Islamic Revolution was a sort of identify-seeking and independence-seeking response to the colonial interventions in Iran.Based on the findings of the paper, until before the victory of Islamic Revolution, Iran played the role of dependent state in international system. Iran was a puppet state of the British and Soviet colonial powers from the Qajar period to the coming of Pahlavi I, while in the latter period it became the executor of US policies in Cold War era.Based on Imam Khomeini’s anti-colonial theory and the assumptions of dependency theory, Islamic Revolution of Iran as the most important internal development in Iran and the world, resorted to the religious teachings to bring about the collapse of a pro-Western regime and freed the country from the chain of dependency..