Public mourning reinforces calls for revolutionary unity

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.

Motahhari had linked Islamic philosophy, social criticism and opposition to the Shah.

The attack reflected violent conflict over clerical authority and the meaning of revolutionary Islam.

A decree consolidated armed revolutionary groups into an institution tasked with protecting the revolution.

Its purpose was to defend the new political order against restoration, foreign interference and internal armed threats.

Local militants and networks that had fought the Shah became part of a national organization.

The IRGC would combine military, political and social functions and become one of the republic's most influential institutions.

The provisional government's draft proposed republican institutions and mechanisms for reviewing legislation.