The dictatorship in Spain finished. Juan Carlos I was crowned king of Spain and referred to as for the reintroduction of democracy. In 1979, a new wrinkle appeared in the type of Islamic fundamentalism, as the Shia theocracy of Ayatollah Khomeini overthrew the Shah of Iran and declared itself hostile to both of those Western democracy and godless communism. On July 16, 1979, he assumed the presidency cementing his rise to electricity.