The Man who Changed the World

Iran before the revolution was becoming modernized and westernized, were government isolated Islam in their rule, were women were allowed rights, but everything changed after the revolution, when Khomeini decided that Iran should go back to be ruled under the Islamic rule, were he gathered huge numbers of Iranians to follow him.


Ayatollah Khomeini in Iran in 1979. Iran’s seizure of the US embassy in Tehran and the holding a staff of 66 for more than 400 days. Discussing issues between the east and the west were interest plays a huge rule in the equation we witnessed through the movie that Iran had their interests such as the 5 billion dollars the American government was holding belongs to the Iranian government. Even after the agreement over the American hostages Iran still picked benefit of moral since in the 1980’s and after the establishment of Hezbollah French citizens were taking hostages in Lebanon. The French government at the time asked Iran for help since they got influence over the Hezbollah, and they offered them more than 100 million dollars, the Iranian government refused since the opposite party in France offered 10 times more the number.