In the conditions of tyranny every attempt of parliamentary alternative was vain. There was the only thing left – revolutionary radicalism. In this situation, the appearing of Khomeini as one of the most capable leader, became the decisive moment. Khomeini discussed the newly politicized people's material and social demands on the basis of respecting their spiritual aspects of their lives as well as the country's honour.

Religion aroused the group and social solidarity feelings which were necessary for the society of the town's poor districts. They now considered religion as the substitute to their lost village society and associated their social positions with the Mosques. And Khomeini was thought as a long-awaited liberator by many social groups during their periods of discontent. In the opinion of petty-bourgeois he was not only the enemy of dictatorship also the defender of property ownership as well as of traditional values and bazaar traders. The intelligentsia realized that despite his clerical origin, he was a fearless nationalist who would fulfill Mossadegh's ideas by abolishing the "foreign imperialism and the internal fascism". In the opinion of the town workers Khomeini was a public leader who was interested in establishing the social justice.

Thus, the movement started on the basis of the third world's nationalistic ideas took the Islamic character owing to its new, charismatic spiritual leader.