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Students studying to be imams at Qom were most active in the protests, and Ayatollah Khomeini emerged as one of the leaders, giving sermons calling for the Shah's overthrow. [131] At least 200 people were killed, with the police throwing some students to their deaths from high buildings, and Khomeini was exiled to Iraq in 4 October 1965. [132]
The 1953 Iranian coup d'état, known in Iran as the 28 Mordad coup d'état (Persian: کودتای ۲۸ مرداد), was the U.S.- and British-instigated, Iranian army-led overthrow of the Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh in favor of strengthening the autocratic rule of the shah, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, on 19 August 1953, with the objectives being to protect British oil interests in Iran after ...
The personalised nature of the Shah's government, where prevention of any possible competitor to the monarch trumped efficient and effective government and led to the crown's cultivation of divisions within the army and the political elite, [91] ultimately leading to a lack of support for the regime by its natural allies when needed most ...
Khomeini immediately blamed the Shah and SAVAK for setting the fire, and, [9] [107] [130] due to the pervasive revolutionary atmosphere, the public also blamed the Shah for starting the fire, despite the government's insistence that they were uninvolved. Tens of thousands of people took to the streets shouting "Burn the Shah!"
Street clashes between protesters and Shah's regime in Tehran Killed protesters by Shah's regime in Tehran Iranian protesters on 5 June 1963 Killed protesters in Black Friday The Preamble of the 1979 Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Iran speaks of the Islamic revolution being "watered by the blood of more than 60,000 martyrs and 100,000 ...
Texas lawmakers are interested in Roberson's case not just because of his innocence claims, but because they passed a law in 2013 that was supposed to give defendants who were convicted based on ...
During the 1978–79 overthrow of the Pahlavi government, protestors were fired upon by troops and prisoners were executed. The real and imaginary human rights violations contributed directly to the Shah's demise, [42] (although some have argued so did his scruples in not violating human rights more as urged by his generals [43]).
As Shah of Iran as well as an Iranian citizen, I cannot but approve your revolution." [27] [28] November 6: General Gholam Reza Azhari appointed as the prime minister. Enforces martial law. [citation needed] November 8: Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi arrests thirteen prominent members of his own regime. [citation needed]