The state begins translating revolutionary aims into institutions

Some groups endorsed the new republic, while others criticized the yes-or-no format or called for a boycott.

Women's participation affirmed their visible role in the revolution and in deciding the formal structure of the new state.

After the referendum count, 1 April was declared the founding day of the Islamic Republic.

The result ended the hereditary political order and replaced it with a republic grounded in the revolution.

Supporters understood the new republic as a break with foreign domination, especially the political legacy of the 1953 coup.

The revolutionary court prosecuted a leading figure of the Pahlavi state for political repression and other offenses.

His rapid execution became one of the best-known early cases of revolutionary justice.

Many Iranians saw trials as a response to decades in which officials had been protected from public judgment.

Some revolutionaries argued that summary proceedings weakened due process and the moral authority of the new order.

The cleric and revolutionary theorist was shot after leaving a meeting of the Revolutionary Council.