The hegemonic Discourse of the Islamic Revolution and micro-discourses inside the Islamic Republic of Iran during the leadership of Imam Khomeini

During the Islamic Revolution there were a number of active Identities and micro-discourses that appeared in different faces based upon their own True System, Signifiers, and specifications. Through utilizing a qualitative method and discourse analysis theory, this paper tries to answer the question that how the Islamic Revolution discourse has been able to survive via interaction with its micro-discourses during in the aftermath of the 1979 Revolution? Since its inception and during the first decade after the Revolution, known as the Consolidation period, the politics of the Islamic Republic under the Grand Ayatollah Imam Khomeini, was a scene of rivalry among two major micro-discourses, Democratic Political Islam and Islamic, Revolutionary Idealism, each of them could maintain their own hegemony by consolidating key concepts and belief systems through sense-making, legitimizing, and applying floating signifiers in the society. As the paper argues, notwithstanding the occasional intra-conflicts among micro-discourses, the Islamic Revolution discourse, thanks to inclusiveness and deepness of the discursive elements, and loyalty of the masses to the nodal point around which other signifiers were articulated and got meaning (Islam), not only never reached an impasse and standoff, but also provided a forum for competing micro-discourses to present themselves in the coming decades.