What were the pro monarchist groups during the Iranian revolution, and did they stage any useful resistance?
There was only one well known pro-monarchy group. It was called the Resurgence Party. When Shah left, they protested for weeks in Tabriz, Tehran and other major cities. But in the end most of them were either executed or threatened to be executed. Most of the Iranians from the Iranian diaspora were former members of the resurgence party. My family being one of them.
Describe two effects of the Iranian Revolution.?
1. the rise of Islamic fundamentalism. in the name of human rights, President Jimmy Carter gave rise to one of the worst human rights violators in history, the Ayatollah Khomeini. today, Khomeini's successor, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, is preparing for nuclear war with Israel and the West. 2. the Iran Hostage Crisis. during the crisis, Carter's reply was to sit for more than five months before launching a rescue mission that was symbolic of his presidency: the rescue helicopter crashed and burned.
Compare and contrast Iranian and Egyptian revolutions?
Ultimately the main commonalities come from the fact that both countries were under the rule of Monarchies that were perceived to be siding with the western powers namely Britain, the US and the USSR over their own people. In the case of Egypt, Britain had direct control over the Suez canal and had just recently lost the 1948 Arab-Israeli war, these two points made the ruling Monarch look very weak and hence was a source of shame for the Egyptian people. Iran was ruled by the Shah of Iran who not only took power from a democratically elected Prime Minister with the help of a British, US backed coup some years earlier but was also doing little to relieve financial hardship in the country that accounted for an unemployment rate of something like 30% from memory. The commonalities I believe can be found in the two countries siding with outside powers with little regard for their own people breeding discontent and ultimately opening the way for the strong leaders of Nasser and Ayatollah Khomeini. The above are quite good starting points for you and I would recommend searching google scholar and google books for information.