%0 Journal Article %T Transformation Pattern in the political Transition Period of the Revolutions Case Study: Islamic Revolution of Iran %J Geopolitics Quarterly %I Iranian Association of Geopolitics %Z 1735-4331 %A Hafeznia, Mohammad Reza %A Ahmadypur, Zahra %A Roumina, Ebrahim %D 2007 %\ 12/22/2007 %V 3 %N 10 %P 33-55 %! Transformation Pattern in the political Transition Period of the Revolutions Case Study: Islamic Revolution of Iran %K Political transition %K Islamic Revolution %K Power structure %K Revolution %K Iran %R %X AbstractIn this research, the period of political transition has been studied with reference to revolution. The current research applied descriptive and analytical methods with the use of library resources and documents in order to focus on the pattern of post-revolutionary political transition period of the Islamic revolution in Iran. Results show that governmental and constitutional structures in the post-revolutionary period were institutionalized on the basis of elite revolutionary ideology, and most of the incidents after Iranian revolution such as export of revolution, seizure of American embassy, and ethnical internal crises such as those of Kurdistan and Azerbaijan became the layout for the future geopolitical challenges of Iran. Emerging political competition among political groups and revolutionary elites, possession of power ethnical claims, and formation of revolutionary structures etc were happened.  %U