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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 ]
From 1941 to 1979, Iran was ruled by King Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the Shah. On February 11, 1979, the Islamic Revolution swept the country.
11 February 1979 () (Iranian revolution) The Pahlavi dynasty ( Persian : سلسله پهلوی ) was the last Iranian royal dynasty that ruled for roughly 53 years between 1925 and 1979. The dynasty was founded by Reza Shah Pahlavi , a non-aristocratic Mazanderani soldier [ 1 ] in modern times, who took on the name of the Pahlavi language ...
Tucker explains that the consensus of historians regarding estimated deaths during the Iranian revolution (from January 1978 to February 1979), numbers between 532 and 2,781. [ 1 ] The number of protesters and political prisoners killed after the fall of the Shah by the new Islamic Republic as it consolidated power is estimated by human rights ...
Persepolis is a series of autobiographical graphic novels by Marjane Satrapi that depict her childhood and early adult years in Iran and Austria during and after the Islamic Revolution.
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 ...
Shi'a clergy (or Ulema) have historically had a significant influence in Iran.The clergy first showed themselves to be a powerful political force in opposition to Iran's monarch with the 1891 tobacco protest boycott that effectively destroyed an unpopular concession granted by the shah giving a British company a monopoly over buying and selling tobacco in Iran.
In 2009, National Geographic published Burnett's 44 Days: Iran and the Remaking of the World. The books contains his photography taken in Iran during the 1979 overthrow of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. [10] Also that year, Burnett published another book of intimate, unpublished images he took of reggae singer Bob Marley, titled Soul Rebel. [11]