“Go home! Protests against the Shah are illegal.” Kkkkkttttt….The sound of the machine gun was terrifying
Tehran, Iran 1978
The Iranian revolution began in the spring of 1978 when four Islamic militants burned down a building in Abadan, Iran.
Four hundred people were killed in that fire and many more people would be killed in the Islamic extremists’ quest for power and change.
“Death to the Shah! Death to the Shah!”
Iranian revolutionaries proclaimed Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the Iranian king, a puppet of the United States. They demonstrated against his rulership and democratic policies and demanded the instatement of Muslim leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini instead.
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