The hat, also known as the customary headdress of the whole civilized world, showed that no difference existed in the manner of thought between the Turkish nation and the civilized mankind. In 1979 an Islamic revolution in Iran brought to power a government committed to Islamization of public life. That revolution had been led and inspired by an Iranian religious scholar named Ayatollah Khomeini. Ayatollah Khomeini was the supreme leader of Iran during the 1980s. Those who fight against colonialism are in the school of Islam.