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The demonstrations of June 5 and 6, also called the events of June 1963 or (using the Iranian calendar) the 15 Khordad uprising (Persian: تظاهرات پانزده خرداد), [3] were protests in Iran against the arrest of Ruhollah Khomeini after his denouncement of Iranian Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and Israel. [4]
Events from the year 1963 in Iran. Incumbents. Shah: ... June 5 and 6 – June 5, 1963, demonstrations in Iran; September 17 – 1963 Iranian legislative election;
Parliamentary elections were held in Iran on 17 September 1963. [1] The result was a victory for the New Iran Party, which won 140 of the 200 seats. Voter turnout was 91.7%. [1] It was held a few months after the 'White Revolution referendum' and the subsequent demonstrations in June.
The White Revolution was a far-reaching series of reforms in Iran launched in 1963 by ... the demonstrations of 5 June 1963 with ... shot live ammunition to ...
Pope Francis on Monday broke his silence on the nationwide protests convulsing Iran, denouncing the recourse to the death penalty there and seemingly legitimizing the rallies as demonstrations ...
Iran's latest protest movement, which has produced some of the nation’s most widespread unrest in years, emerged as a response to Amini's death after her arrest for allegedly violating the ...
On 5 June 1963 at 3 am, two days after, Khomeini was detained and transferred to Tehran. When this news was broadcast, large protest demonstrations were held in Qom, Tehran, Mashhad, Varamin, Kashan and other cities. The Shah's guards killed and injured several people. That event is now referred to as the Movement of 15 Khordad. [14]
Activists say it has seen strikes, shops closed and demonstrations amid the unrest that began over the Sept. 16 death in custody of Masha Amini, a 22-year-old woman who had been detained by Iran's ...