Anatomy of Colored Revolutions and Its Effect in Iran
Subject Areas : International Relations
Mohammadali Khosravi
1
(Assistant Professor of Political Science, Islamic Azad University Central Tehran Branch, Department of Political Science)
Davood Bayat
2
(Graduated MA in Political Science, Islamic Azad University Central Tehran)
Keywords: Orange Revolution, Key Words: Colored Revolution, Rose Revolution, Tulip Revolution, Soft Overthrow,
Abstract :
Abstract Colored revolution is one of the new methods of changing a regime in the past two decades which is mostly against old political systems and remained from the Eastern European countries and independent republics of the former Soviet Union. During the last two decades, changes have occurred in the Czechoslovakia, Georgia, Ukraine and Kirghizia which resulted to the changing of ruled regime without bloodshed and violence. Tranquility revolution era began from 1989 and now is in the plan of great powers especially the U.S. imperialist state. This change is concentrated on a soft implication and non-violence method for changing of rulers and governments. These revolutions mostly designed by the U.S. organizations and happened in the countries which are not accepted western styles and their patterns and their common slogan have mostly focused on the liberalism. This paper attempts to analyze anatomy of colored revolutions and the reasons of failure of this pattern in the Islamic Republic of Iran.