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The Iranian Revolution was a gendered revolution; much of the new regime's rhetoric was centered on the position of women in society. [178] Beyond rhetoric, thousands of women were also heavily mobilized in the revolution itself, [179] and different groups of women actively participated alongside their male counterparts. [180]
[8] The regime's response to the uprising in Tabriz in February 1978 is described as being "massive repression" which included arrests. [7] According to Sepehr Zabir, although the February 1978 uprising in Tabriz was effectively "crushed", the security forces, who were unfamiliar with guerrilla warfare, were not able to exterminate the ...
The Revolutionary Guard or Pasdaran-e Enqelab, was established by a decree issued by Khomeini on May 5, 1979 "to protect the revolution from destructive forces and counter-revolutionaries," [16] i.e., as a counterweight both to the armed groups of the left, and to the Iranian military, which had been part of the Shah's power base. 6,000 persons ...
8 March 1979 protest in Tehran 8 March 1979 protest in Tehran. On International Women's Day on March 8, 1979, a women's march took place in Tehran in Iran.The march was originally intended to celebrate the International Women's Day, but transformed into massive protests against the changes taking place in women's rights during the Iranian revolution, specifically the introduction of mandatory ...
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]
The Story of the Revolution – a detailed web resource from the BBC World Service Persian Branch, devoted to the Iranian Revolution (audio recordings in Persian, transcripts in English). The Reunion — The Shah of Iran's Court – BBC Radio 4 presents an audio program featuring reminiscences of the Iranian Revolution by key members of the pre ...
The Interim Government of Iran (Persian: دولت موقت ايران, romanized: Dowlat-e Movaqat-e Irân) was the first government established in Iran after the Iranian Revolution. The regime was headed by Mehdi Bazargan , one of the members of the Freedom Movement of Iran , [ 1 ] and formed on the order of Ayatollah Khomeini on 4 February 1979.
In 1979, Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi was overthrown by an Islamic Revolution in Iran, replacing its millennia-old monarchy with a theocratic republic. Shortly after, the leader of the Revolution, a senior Islamic jurist named Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, also transliterated Khumaynî, successfully supported referendums to declare Iran an Islamic Republic in March 1979, and to approve a ...