From the perspective of world history, the greatest development and logic of a country is actually to constantly strengthen the country and enrich the people. This is the basic duty. Therefore, as long as the country is strong, as long as it is the road to enriching the people, it is a good road. There is no doubt about this, which is also the main reason why countries all over the world continue to explore their own development path, and once they have explored it well, they will certainly persist in development. But there are exceptions, the most typical of which is Iran, which has actually explored the road of strengthening the country and enriching the people, but finally gave up. For this reason, many people actually don't understand why Iran abandoned secularization in those days instead of choosing the integration of politics and religion. There is only one root cause.

After hundreds of years of humiliation and blows in modern times, Iran, like China, has been looking for the road of national development. Whether it is constitutional monarchy, western system or absolute monarchy, Iran is constantly exploring. Finally, it is proved that the secularization road in Pahlavi period is the development road of Iran.

Because under secularization, Iran has been learning from the west, introducing western systems, developing science and technology and industry, and constantly promoting education and reform, and finally making Iran develop strongly. In the 1970s, after decades of secularization, Iran was the ninth largest industrial country in the world, with very rich people, the highest per capita GDP and the highest comprehensive national strength in the Middle East.

Because of this, at that time, the entire Middle East oil countries basically listened to Iran, and basically Iran could dominate the world oil price. At that time, the Iranian people were very proud and rich, so Iran has actually explored the road of national development, which is to adhere to secularization. But in the end, in 1979, Iran abandoned secularization and chose the integration of politics and religion.

For this reason, many people don't understand why Iran abandoned secularization and chose the integration of politics and religion. In fact, there is only one fundamental reason, and that is "the priest's counterattack." Iran is an Islamic country. Since ancient times, it has been a country dominated by clergy. The clergy are basically the ruling class, with power and countless wealth. The supreme religious leader is even more prominent, and even the king is afraid of three points.

However, in the secularization, the cleric class in Iran has completely lost its power and wealth, and many people have become very poor, which undoubtedly makes the cleric class dissatisfied. Therefore, in the whole Pahlavi era, priests have been resisting, and the biggest representatives are Khomeini and Khamenei. They United with hundreds of thousands of priests all over the country, constantly brainwashed the people, constantly publicized the corruption of the king, and finally triggered civil strife. The last revolution overthrew the Pahlavi dynasty.

For clergy, it is absolutely impossible to restore identity and secularization. Only the integration of politics and religion can guarantee the status and wealth of priests, which is the core. Therefore, why Iran abandoned secularization and did not choose the integration of politics and religion in those years was actually the self-interest of priests, who ignored the achievements of national development in order to seize power and wealth, which was the fundamental reason.