2011: Mass protests over 18 days led to the resignation of President Hosni Mubarak.
Results: ?
TUNISIA
2011: The "Jasmine Revolution" - a month of widespread protest - ousted authoritarian President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali. An interim government will rule until scheduled midyear elections.
Results: ?
1964: Several days of a general strike and rioting - the "October Revolution" - led the Army general who was president to hand power to a transitional civilian government, which ended with a military coup in 1969.
Results: Successful
IRAN
1979: The "Islamic Revolution" was a 15-month crescendo of strikes and public demonstrations that forced Shah Reza Pahlavi into exile and installed hard-line conservative clerics as the supreme rulers over a parliamentary system based on sharia law. Electoral democracy never took root.
2009: The "Green movement" uprising - widespread street protests organized through social media over perceived presidential election fraud - started in June and has continued sporadically ever since.
Results: Mixed
