Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini
In early September, approximately a hundred thousand Khomeini supporters staged a march in Tehran. They demanded a new Islam-cen ...
decision turned out to be highly advantageous to his cause. Some of the largest newspapers and magazines in the world, including ...
government was bound to change. Strikes had brought productive work in the country almost to a standstill. There were food short ...
On January 16, 1979, Shah Pahlavi and his immediate entourage left the country, reputedly taking a vacation. Antigovernment mili ...
Islamic government, Mehdi Bazargan. Bazargan was a religious leader who also had studied engineering. He was a long-time adversa ...
Bakhtiar recognized the futility of resisting. After pro-Khomeini soldiers seized Iran’s military bases and overpowered the loya ...
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I n March 1979, Ayatollah Khomeini settled with his close advisors in Qom, the center of Islamic teaching where he had taught fo ...
establishment. He was not a primary political target, for he claimed no political title. Indeed, he did not need one. As the sup ...
“Once a person fell into the arms of SAVAK there was nowhere to turn,” wrote historian William Shawcross. SAVAK was empowered to ...
Kurds and certain other minority groups refused to participate in the voting. Later that year, a national referendum approved a ...
American journalist Robin Wright, in her book The Last Great Revolution, contrasted visits she made to Iran in 1973, at the heig ...
been thwarted when the revolutionary government sent a rescue force to the embassy. This time, fifty-two American hostages were ...
tentative relationship with the United States, failed to get the hostages released. He resigned two days after the embassy takeo ...
an invasion into Iran. Hussein had several reasons for going to war. First, he—like other Middle Eastern leaders—feared that Kho ...
fields in Iran’s Khuzistan region. The Iranians’ military command structure was in disarray during the revolution and hardly abl ...
the Mujahedeen, including ten who held government positions. This massive vendetta effectively crushed the opposition party, alt ...
With the quelling of this revolt, the religious leaders who followed Khomeini were in virtually total control of the new governm ...
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D uring its first decade as an Islamic republic, Iran experienced complex changes. Some had little to do with the revolution. Fo ...
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