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The opposition against Pahlavi was not united. There were Communists, Socialists, Feminists, Nationalists, Islamists, and numerous other wildly different groups that opposed the Shah.

After the Shah was deposed in January 1979, Ayatollah Khomeini, a leading Islamist, was able to commandeer the direction of the revolution.

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