Historic pictures of Iran's Islamic revolution

[Al-zakir]

I personally like Iran and it's command structure. Iran showed tremendous about of resiliency when comes to Islamic matter thus respect earned. It's time to forget our little difference and embrace each other for the cause of Islam and Muslim. Some pictures of Iran's Islamic revolution.

Courtesy of Beaver County Times & Allegheny Times Online - Front

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The exiled Ayatollah Khomeini pictured during prayers at his temporary refuge at Neauphle le Chateau, 25 miles from Paris in December 1978, two months before his return home

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Ayatollah Khomeini arrived back home on February 1, 1979, after flying in from Paris on an Air France Boeing 747

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He was greeted by jubilant crowds who numbered in their millions

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An effigy of the Shay burns as student riot in Tehran in November 1978

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Demonstrators look on as an effigy of the former Shah of Iran is set alight near the US embassy in Tehran in January 1980

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Signs on the US embassy in Tehran read ’Down with Reagan’ and ’Victory to Islam’ in December 1980

 

[Al-zakir]

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Iranian youths parading in the funeral procession of Ayatollah Mohammad Mofateh, following the assignation of the religious leader and two bodyguards on December 19, 1979

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An insurgent puts another weapon on a pile of guns turned in by rebels a mosque in Tehran, heading a request by Ayatollah Khomeini to do so

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A huge group of people participating in a cemenony held to commemorate the 15 Khoradad - the day Iranian Muslims rose againt the Shah’s regime in June 1963

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One million Iranians surround Ayatollah Khomeini?s body on display in Mossala square, Tehran on June 5, 1989

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A mass of hysterical mourners reach out to touch the body of Ayatollah Khomeini as his broken coffin is passed overhead during his funeral. It is thought eight people were killed and thousands injured during the procession. Khomeini died on June 3, 1989, aged 86

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A June 1989 still from a TV broadcast shows Iranian spiritual leader Ayatollah Khomeini spoon-fed in a Tehran hospital shortly before his death

 

[Al-zakir]

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Clothed in a soldiers uniform and clutching a real assault riffle, a young boy rides on top of a vehicle in Tehran during a parade marking the third anniversary of ’Mobilisation Day’, when Ayatollah Khomeini called for a 20 million-strong army

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A supporter of Ayatollah Shariatmadari uses a biblical-style sling to launch a stone at revolutionary guards on January 10, 1980

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A man said to be a Savak agent is led off by rebels. The Savak was the feared secret police unit of the Shah

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Demonstrators outside the US embassy in Tehran carrying sickles - the Iranian symbol of death. Fifty-two US diplomats were held hostage from November 1979 to January 1981

 

[CanadianPad]

Awesome pictures.
Good find.

 

[qsaark]

Though I do not agree with their theological understanding, I do appreciate the Iranian revolution.

 

[TruthSeeker]

Though I do not agree with their theological understanding, I do appreciate the Iranian revolution.

What do you like most? Their hatred of the USA or their revolutionary courts and executions? Or maybe it's the way they kill and torment Baha'is and Ahmadis?? I'm not surprised that you admire them.

 

[qsaark]

What do you like most? Their hatred of the USA or their revolutionary courts and executions? Or maybe it's the way they kill and torment Baha'is and Ahmadis?? I'm not surprised that you admire them.

What I like most is the fact that they over threw the Shah of Iran who had once deposed the democratically elected Prime Minister of Iran, Mohammed Mosaddeq in 19 August 1953. Contrary to what you believe (funny though because you have never visited Iran and all your knowledge has come from Fox News and other extreme right wing media outlets), Iranian revolution paved the way for democracy and justice. These two components were totally missing during the time of Shah of Iran.

 

[TruthSeeker]

Qsaark, Sir,

Read "Khomeini's Ghost, The Iranian Revolution and the Rise of Militant Islam" by Con Coughlin, as I just did recently, to see what Khomeini brought to this world.

In February 1979, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini returned to Tehran after nearly fifteen years in exile and received a hero's welcome. Just as the new world order sought to purge the communist ideologies of the Cold War, the religious doctrine of Islamic fundamentalism emerged to pose an even greater threat to post-Iron Curtain stability—and Khomeini would mastermind it into a revolution.

Khomeini's Ghost is the account of how an impoverished young student from a remote area of southern Iran became the leader of one of the most dramatic upheavals of the modern age, and how his radical Islamic philosophy now is at the heart of the current conflict between Iran and the West. Con Coughlin draws on a wide variety of Iranian sources, including religious figures who knew and worked with Khomeini both in exile and in power.

Compelling and timely, Khomeini's Ghost is essential reading for anyone wishing to understand what lies at the center of many of the world's most intractable conflicts.

I imagine that I read far more than you do about such things. After all, I am retired and my children are all adults, parents and finished with school. I have the time. You have to pay your mortgage and raise your children. Get off the "Fox News" canard. I am not one of your stereotyped rednecks.

And, they do not have democracy, they have a dictatorship by Shia clerics.

 

[qsaark]

From the tone you use (especially for me), it doesn't look like that you are a mature retired person. At any rate, you have viewed things through the eyes of others for instance through the eyes of Mr. Con Coughlin as you mentioned. I am not saying whatever he has written is crap, but certainly he has viewed things from his point of view. Others have viewed things from their point of view. For me as a Muslims certain things are normal and totally acceptable in my society. The same things on the other hand are viewed wrong and unacceptable in your culture. For instance my wife is my first cousin, getting married with first cousins is totally acceptable both religiously and culturally among us, the Pakistanis. However, here in US, people find it weird, in fact morally wrong. This is a very simple example I can give you to explain the difference of view point. You guys don’t want someone to change your, the American way of life. On the other hand, you totally reject the way of life others follow, does this make any sense? It does make sense when you think your way of life is superior and that exactly is the problem with Americans.