In November 1978, after Pahlavi dismissed Prime Minister Jafar Sharif-Emami and appointed a military government, he pledged in a televised address “not to repeat the past mistakes and illegalities, the cruelty and corruption. Despite this, the royal family’s wealth can be seen as one of the factors behind the persian revolution. This was due to the oil crises of the 1970s which increased inflation resulting in economic austerity measures which made lower class workers more inclined to protest.