The dictatorship in Spain finished. Juan Carlos I was topped king of Spain and termed for the reintroduction of democracy. In 1979, a new wrinkle appeared in the kind of Islamic fundamentalism, as the Shia theocracy of Ayatollah Khomeini overthrew the Shah of Iran and declared alone hostile to the two Western democracy and godless communism. On July 16, 1979, he assumed the presidency cementing his rise to power.