A Comparative Research about February 1979 Islamic Revolution in Iran and January 2011 Revolution in Egypt

The current study tries to explain the common and distinctive features of two revolutions in Iran and Egypt through a multi-dimensional comparison of revolutionary management, public cause, public mobilization and collective measures to discover the reasons behind the success and failure of these revolutions. Pinpointing the reasons for rise and fall of revolutions in Iran and Egypt can teach lessons to increase the influence of revolution leadership in the future in the Middle East, on the one hand, and decrease the ill-intentioned measures by internal and external forces to thwart the revolutions on the other hand. Furthermore, this comparison indicates that resorting to and application of superficial images of revolutionary leadership and Islamic ideology cannot lead to survival of revolutions in North Africa under different religious, geographical, lingual, ethnic and other conditions in Iran and Egypt; nevertheless, continuation of public mobilization and collective measures in Egypt should be adopted from historical, political, economic and other factors of this country.