The Role of People in Iran's Islamic Revolution: An analysis based on Foucault's Perspective

Nowadays, it is no longer possible to ignore the agency of people in creating effective events in societies. In other words, in the researches and analyzes of researchers and thinkers, the role of the people in changing the structures of their society and sometimes the direction or change in the political behavior of the rulers is prominently observed, and the analysts and thinkers by addressing People's agency, contemporary movements and uprisings are investigated. Based on this, the purpose of this article is to investigate the position of the people in the Iranian revolution with Michel Foucault's genealogical perspective and find an answer to these questions: what role did the people play in the Islamic revolution of Iran and how can it be done? From the perspective of Foucaultian genealogy, did he analyze the position of the people in the Iranian revolution? The claim of the authors is that based on a genealogical perspective, the Iranian revolution of 1357 can only be understood based on the agency of the people.To investigate this claim, Foucault's genealogical method was used and the topics were presented in the form of theoretical sections, the process of the revolution, general analysis of the revolution and genealogical analysis of the revolution, and conclusions were drawn from the topics. The findings of the article showed that without an understanding of the process of people's participation in the Iranian revolution, it is impossible to get a clear understanding of this great phenomenon of the 20th century.