Algeria and Iran

The Algerian Revolution and the Islamic Revolution in Iran were both ultimately unsuccessful because the governments that they created gave rise to political instability in a situation much like the one that the revolutions sought to free themselves from. After the Algerian Revolution, there was a constant struggle for power between political parties, and there still exists a huge divide between the French and the Algerians and Western culture and Islam. Similarly, Iran's Islamic Revolution produced a theocratic state and dictatorship, and people still live in constant fear of the government. In both revolutions, the idea of religion plays a huge role in determining the state of the new nation. In Algeria, the divide between religions makes it difficult to find unifying principles, and in Iran, the hopeful theocratic government slowly crumbled as the religion become intertwined with the declining political state. Although the Algerian revolution produced divisions within society that led to unrest, the Iranian Revolution seems to have created a tension between the government and its own people through ignorance of civil rights.