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April 1: 98.2% of votes tallied are in favor of an Islamic republic. Islamic republic established. April 17: Revolt in Naqadeh. [44] April 20: Valyollah Qarani assassinated by the Forqan group. May 1: Morteza Motahhari, one of the most notable ideologists of Islamic revolution, assassinated by the Forqan group.
Iranian revolution: The Iranian Monarchy collapsed in a popular revolution. 1 April: A referendum passed which made Iran an Islamic republic. 4 November: Iran hostage crisis: 1980: 22 September: Iraq launched a full-scale invasion of Iran. The Iran–Iraq War would last until August 1988.
The Iranian revolution (Persian: انقلاب ایران, Enqelâb-e Irân [ʔeɴɢeˌlɒːbe ʔiːɾɒːn]), also known as the 1979 revolution, or the Islamic revolution of 1979 (انقلاب اسلامی, Enqelâb-e Eslâmī) [4] was a series of events that culminated in the overthrow of the Pahlavi dynasty in 1979.
The 1978 Qom protest (Persian: تظاهرات ۱۹ دی قم) was a demonstration against the Pahlavi dynasty ignited by the Iran and Red and Black Colonization article published on 7 January 1978 in Ettela'at newspaper, one of the two publications with the largest circulation in Iran. [1]
From 1941 to 1979, Iran was ruled by King Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the Shah. On February 11, 1979, the Islamic Revolution swept the country.
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Iran marked Sunday the 45th anniversary of the 1979 Islamic Revolution amid tensions gripping the wider Middle East over Israel’s continued war on Hamas in the Gaza Strip. In Tehran, crowds ...
Ruhollah Khomeini’s return to Iran on 1 February 1979, after 14 years in exile, was an important event in the Iranian Revolution. It led to the collapse of the provisional government of Shapour Bakhtiar and the final overthrow of the Shah of Iran, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi , on 11 February 1979.