Interview with Rahim Raisnia (3) Conversation and interview

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Raeesnia: That event was one of the turning points in the history of Iran and the first major achievement of the Constitutional Revolution. The objective causes and factors that provide the material basis of a revolution are the chain of objective changes that arise in existing political conditions at both the national and global levels, creating a state that is interpreted as a revolutionary situation. That is, although the existence of a revolutionary situation is a necessary condition for the occurrence of a social revolution, it is not a sufficient condition. Many cases are encountered in the history of various nations where, despite the existence of revolutionary situations, due to reasons including fragmentation and the failure to form lower classes, the aforementioned situations did not lead to victorious revolutions. In other words, during those time periods, the necessary subjective conditions for fertilizing revolutionary situations and driving them toward victorious revolutions were insufficient. Chista: Therefore, you want to conclude that in the early years of the 1890s AD / 1270s SH, a revolutionary situation existed in Iran and the Constitutional Revolution occurred based on that very situation, is that correct? Raeesnia: Protest against the ruling system, in the words of the late Fereydun Adamiyat, constitutes the soul of Iran's social history from the beginning of the fourteenth century AH. ). Chista: The facts you have presented indicate that a revolutionary situation had existed in Iran since the late reign of Naser al-Din Shah.