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In 1979 the secular, westernizing Pahlavi Dynasty was overthrown and replaced by an Islamic Republic under the rule of Ayatollah Khomeini.

While the revolution did not dismantle the Pahlavi judiciary in its entirety, it replaced secular-trained jurists " with seminary-educated ones, and codified more features of the sharia into state laws-especially the Law of Retribution.

" ( see Qisas ) Women judges were also removed ( although they could still be lawyers, or after 1997, secondary judges in civil cases ).