The iranian

revolution
 42 YEARS
have passed since the iranian revolution ENDED
 It hasn’t gotten better.

Despite the push for change in the late 70s,

things have only changed for the worse, and
like many revolutions before it, it was not
completely in the people’s hands.

THIs is: THE STORY OF the IRANIAN REVOLUTION, told through pictures
 March 19, 1951

A legislation led by soon-to-be

PM Mohammad Mosaddegh
(pictured) is passed, officially
nationalizing the Iranian oil
industry, away from British rule.
 August 19, 1953

As a result of the oil

nationalization crisis, the U.S.
and U.K. carry out a coup d’état
and successfully overthrow the
democratically elected
Mosaddegh, and restore power
to the Shah (King) Mohammad
Reza Pahlavi.
 December 31, 1977

Jimmy Carter toasts the Shah

on a brief visit to Iran, calling
Iran “an island of stability in
one of the most troubled areas
of the world”, and supports Iran
to repel communist forces in
the area.
 January - May 1978

Demonstrators begin to stage

protests and the SAVAK secret
police continue to engage the
protestors, after religious
protesters in Qom are attacked
and killed by armed forces.
 August 19, 1978

477 die after Islamic

oppositionists set fire to the
Cinema Rex, proceeding to
blame the arson on SAVAK.
 September 8, 1978

The Shah declares martial law

and hundreds are killed as
security forces fire at a large
protest in Tehran’s Jaleh
Square, on what is now known
as “Black Friday”.
 October 8, 1978

Senior opposition cleric

Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini is
deported from Iraq, and settles
in Neauphle-le-Chateau, a
Parisian suburb, becoming the
new face of the opposition.
 December 10-11, 1978

Millions of Iranians protest

around the country, demanding
the removal of the Shah and
the return of Khomeini.
 December 29, 1978

The Shah appoints longtime

opposition leader and social
democrat Shapour Bakhtiar as
prime minister.
 January 12, 1979

Ayatollah Khomeini forms a

Revolutionary Council in Paris
to plan the Shah’s exit and
transition to a new government.
 January 16, 1979

The Shah and his family leave

for Egypt, leaving Iran for what
would be the last time, as the
revolution looms.
 January 1979

Iranians celebrate the Shah's

departure in the streets with
the newspaper headline “The
Shah Left”.
 February 1, 1979

Khomeini returns from exile to

Iran in a chartered flight from
France to millions of people in
the streets of Tehran.
 February 4, 1979

Khomeini appoints Mehdi

Bazargan as the prime minister
of an interim government, while
Bakhtiar insists he remains the
head of the only legitimate
Iranian government.
 February 10-11, 1979

Bakhtiar announces nationwide

curfew, which Khomeini orders
not to follow. As armed forces
declare neutrality, the previous
government collapses and
Bakhtiar flees to France where
he is later assassinated by
Islamic agents.
 March 30-31, 1979

Khomeini’s government holds a

referendum as to whether Iran
should become an Islamic
Republic, which came into
action due to no alternatives
being presented.
 November 4, 1979

After reports of the Shah being

admitted to the U.S. for cancer
treatment, protestors storm the
U.S. embassy in Tehran and
take 52 Americans hostage,
demanding the extradition of
the Shah in return.
 November 6, 1979

Leaders of Iran’s provisional

government resign in protest,
relinquishing uncontested
authority to Khomeini and his
Revolutionary Council.
 1979

Khomeini promises free

electricity, water supplies and
transportation services to all
Iranians, under a “just”
economic system.
 January 20, 1981

After months of operations

conducted by Jimmy Carter
and the U.S., along with a
freeze of all the property and
interests of the government
and the Central Bank of Iran, all
remaining hostages are
released.
 June 2009 - December 2010

After Ahmadinejad was

announced as president merely
two hours after the 2009
election closed, Iranians take to
the streets to protest these
results, resulting in thousands
arrested and tortured and
hundreds shot at.
 July 2021

42 years removed from the

start of the Islamic regime,
Iranians protest the water
shortages, the latest in years of
protests over electricity, fuel,
food, water and internet crises.
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