{"id":6051,"date":"2026-09-12T14:18:29","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T11:18:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/?p=6051"},"modified":"2026-09-12T14:18:29","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T11:18:29","slug":"new-simulation-adviser-to-the-shah-could-you-have-prevented-the-iranian-revolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/key-stage\/ib-history\/new-simulation-adviser-to-the-shah-could-you-have-prevented-the-iranian-revolution\/","title":{"rendered":"New Simulation &#8211; Adviser to the Shah: Could You Have Prevented the Iranian Revolution?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A new <strong>ActiveHistory simulation for IB History<\/strong> designed to get students thinking about <strong>causation, perspectives, decision-making and historical inevitability<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/main_area\/games\/iran\">In this brand new simulation<\/a><\/strong>, students investigate the question &#8220;<strong>Can you preserve support for the monarchy better than history did?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is 1963. You are the Shah&#8217;s senior political adviser. Iran is modernising rapidly \u2014 but every reform risks creating new enemies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Over the next 16 years, you must advise the Shah on <strong>10 crucial decisions<\/strong>, while trying to maintain support from five powerful groups:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>The clergy<\/li><li>Reformers<\/li><li>The United States<\/li><li>The army<\/li><li>Bazaar merchants<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The catch? <strong>The Shah will always make the decisions he made in history.<\/strong> Your job is to decide whether you could have advised him better.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Would different choices have saved the monarchy \u2014 or was revolution ultimately unavoidable?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/main_area\/games\/iran\">Could you do better than the Shah?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new ActiveHistory simulation for IB History designed to get students thinking about causation, perspectives, decision-making and historical inevitability. In this brand new simulation, students investigate the question &#8220;Can you preserve support for the monarchy better than history did? It is 1963. You are the Shah&#8217;s senior political adviser. Iran is modernising rapidly \u2014 but&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/key-stage\/ib-history\/new-simulation-adviser-to-the-shah-could-you-have-prevented-the-iranian-revolution\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6051"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6051"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6051\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6054,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6051\/revisions\/6054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}