Gabrielayanez

As we all know several events occured after the Islamic Revolution. For example, the Shah, Muhammad Reza, and his wife left Iran (June 16th 1979) [To the right, is an image from Persepolis where the graphic novelist pictures the celebration of the Shah's departure], Ayatollah Khomeini returned to Iran (February 1st 1979), the foundation of the Islamic Republican party (February 18 1979) and Khomeini becomes Iran's Supreme Leader (December 3rd 1979) but I believe one of the most interesting changed made after the Islamic Revolution would have to be of the new branch added to the Iranian military, called the Army of Guardians of Islamic Revolution. Most foreign governments and English-Speaking mass media use the term "Iranian Revolution Guards ("IRG") or the Revolution Guards. In the US media, the force is usually referred to as the Iranian Revolution Guard Corps. ("IRGC"), though this force is rarely described as a "corps" in non-US media. Before the 1979 revolution, Shah Muhammad Reza relied on the military to ensure national security and to protect his power.Afterwards, the new Islamic authorities, lead by Khomeini, realised they too needed a powerful force. The IRG was formed to consolidate paramilitary forces into a single force loyal to the new regime. Khomeini worried that the Iranian Army which had been loyal to the deposed Shah would revolt and that secular groups would go against the regime's religious character. Therefore, they needed to rely on a force of it's own rather than borrowing the previous regime's tainted units. The clerics, including Khomeini, created a new constitution that supported both a regular military (Artesh), to defend Iran's borders and maintain internal order, and a separate Revolutionary Guard (Pasdaran), to protect the countries Islamic system. The constitution orders that the legal code follow rules exactly to Sharia law, the Islamic moral code based on the Koran. Article IV of that constitution states: “all civil, penal, financial, economic, administrative, cultural, military, political, and other laws and regulations must be based on Islamic criteria." Islamic criteria such as women to covering their bodies except for their face and hands, beliefs instructed by Prophet Muhammad.       According to some outside observers, IRG is intended to prevent internal dissident on these Islamic criterias. The images to the left and right are examples of the 1979 IRG, taken from the book Persepolis, where Marji, the young female protagonist, experiences the consequences of not dressing accordingly to the constitution/Islamic Criterias. She then is insulted and called a "little whore" by the Revolutionary Guards, for having her veil raised too high up (Satrapi 132-133).

Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7064353.stm

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