The emergence of the Islamic Republic in Iran in the late 1970s demonstrates how the Iranian middle class purged itself of the Pahlavi dynasty in order to pursue a more just and more egalitarian. As a result, the country underwent complete social upheaval and in its place developed an openly oppressive regime based on theoretical omnipotence. In response to this regime, the very structure of political and social life was shaken and fundamentally transformed as religion and politics became inexorable. As a result, gender roles and the battle between public and private life have been redrawn. Using various primary and secondary sources, I will show how the Revolution shaped Iran's secular middle class. Additionally, I will show how the Revolution redefined the roles of women, family, and class in the process. The aftermath of the Islamic Revolution and the subsequent founding of the Islamic Republic in 1979 essentially transformed Iran into an empty state. The Iranian people wanted to put an end to the monarchy dominated by the Pahlavis for half a century and their choice fell on Ayatollah Khomeini. Khomeini took advantage of the vulnerability of the Iranian state and established an oppressive theocracy to eliminate any competitors. Khomeini appealed to his general public by asking Iranians if Iran should be an Islamic Republic? While it remains to be seen whether another response would have elicited a sympathetic reaction, 98.2% of the twenty billion votes cast affirmed this fact. It was during this precise event that Khomeini was able to take influence from the Iranian people and never let it go; he achieved this through oppression. In the book Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi, the opening book delineates the overt transition from the middle of the paper......the lasting effects forced women to cope and evolve. According to Kian-Thiebaut, more middle-class secular women “…led Islamic and secular women to join hands, reclaim modernity, and challenge institutionalized gender inequality…The result is that 'they now perceive themselves as women/individuals rather than exclusively as women.' mothers and wives. The softening of the relationship between religion and politics is directly linked to the increasing individualization of women at the end of the 20th century. Kamrava's text, published in 2005, points out that although the political environment has become less oppressive, it "has hardly changed the sad state of the country's economy or redesigned the institutional characteristics of the state. But he made a determined effort to change and refine the cultural essence of what it means to be an Iranian.…”