Post-Revolutionary Impact

International:

• Changed the image of Islam; interest in politics and the spirituality of Islam



• Opposition to western influence and intervention grew and strengthened



• Islamist insurgents rose in Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Syria, and Lebanon



• Finance and created powerful groups: Hezbollah in Lebanon, the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq and the United Islamic Front for the Salvation of Afghanistan
  

• Iran provides Hezbollah with the finance aid and military support and supplies
  
  
• Iran’s financing for Hezbollah established it as a group of major political and military power
  
  
• Hezbollah weapons believed to be Iranian imports
  
  

• Some goals of the revolution: broadening education and health care for the poor, and particularly governmental promotion of Islam, and the elimination of secularism and American influence in government, were unsuccessful
  
  
• Other goals: such as greater political freedom, governmental honesty and efficiency, economic equality and self-sufficiency, and popular religious devotion were reached
  
  
• However, according to one 2002 survey, dissatisfaction was widespread



• The revolution caused an increase in literary though due to a decree that was issued by Ayatollah Khomeini to establish the Literacy Movement Organization (LMO)
  
  
• The program created success, reducing illiteracy from 52.5 per cent in 1976 to just 24 per cent, at the last count in 2002
  
  

• Iran has elected governmental bodies at the national, provincial, and local levels where all males and females from the age of 15 or older may vote