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Fireworks in Tehran for celebrating the revolution anniversary . On 11 February 1979, after the victory of Iranian revolution hundreds of military personnel and policemen marched toward Azadi Tower. [3] One of their demands was a lack of dependence on the United States and the Soviet Union as dominant powers of that time. [4]
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.
'decade of dawn') [1] [2] is a ten-day celebration of Ruhollah Khomeini's return to Iran in 1979. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The annual celebration is held between 1 and 11 February. [ 4 ] Its beginning coincides with the date of Khomeini's arrival and ending with the Iranian Revolution ; a day called the Anniversary of the Iranian Revolution , Islamic ...
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 ...
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Waving Iranian flags, chanting "Death to America" and burning U.S. and Israeli flags, hundreds of thousands of people poured out onto the streets across Iran on Monday ...
Forty years ago, Iran's military said it wouldn't stand in the way of revolutionaries and returned to its barracks, signaling the end of the rule of the shah. Key moments in Iran's 1979 Islamic ...
Fifty-three United States diplomats and citizens were held hostage in Iran from November 4, 1979 to their release on January 20, 1981. They were taken as hostages by a group of armed Iranian college students who supported the Iranian Revolution, including Hossein Dehghan (future Iranian Minister of Defense), Mohammad Ali Jafari (future Revolutionary Guards Commander-In-Chief) and Mohammad ...
Ayatollah Khomeini at Neauphle-le Chateau surrounded by international journalists in January, 1979 Ayatollah Khomeini returns to Iran on February 1, 1979 Iraninan students comes up U.S. embassy in Tehran, March 4, 1979 An anti-Iranian protest in Washington, D.C., in 1979.