Looking back

Photo essay: Khomeini and the 1979 revolution

by Shahrokh Hatami
09-Feb-2009
 
I have a 30-year-old book of photographs of the revolution by a photographer named Hatami (see: shahrokhhatami.com). I thought it would be interesting to reproduce them for the 30th anniversary of the revolution. I paid my nephew Nico $20 to scan the entire book :o) The photos that have a black line in the middle are the ones that were spread on two pages. -- Jahanshah Javid
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Asghar Taragheh

JJ Aziz

by Asghar Taragheh on

Khak to Mokheh Hamemoon that we did not realize  what we were getting ourselves into. Unfortunately, and more disturbing as evidenced here, is how some people still can't admit to this for political reasons.

Watching these images of Iranians killing Iranians just breaks my heart.


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Amir Kabir: the story hasnt finished yet...

by Iruni (not verified) on

They are REMAKING a new enemy from Iran now in order to exploit the region's resources and put Iranian back into history another 500 years at least...

We become new Sadaam in the region suddenly!!!

Roobahe Peer bikar naneshaste... Iruni Khar Nasho Dobareh...


Iranyvaliazad

What makes today's people any different than yesteryears?

by Iranyvaliazad on

I read a report that somwhere between 2-3 million people visit the "well" of invisible creature yearly ... That is a huge percentage of people who have time and money and most importantly the WILL and belief to make such pilgrim ... This number doesn't include people who visit Mashad, Iraq and Macceh.... 

In my opinion, even though there are folks that do realize that moslem clerics are nothing but a mafia organization in charge of sucking blood of Iranians, but majority of Iranians don't understand this very fact regardless how much distruction brought by moslem clrics they see.


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amir kabir is absolutely correct....

by ahvaz1 (not verified) on

i agree with him completely....the brits are the lowlifes behind this fiasco......who the heck was khomeini anyway?????did anyone know him before 77 or 78??? no, they propped him up since he was the biggest lunatic with no love for iran or its people....he just had the task of destroying iran and setting it back a couple of hundred years.....
the british, israelis, french, russians, and even carter couldn't stand iran becoming a powerhouse nation...and they knew how to destroy it......with a moron claiming to be sent from god!
may god free iran in 09!


Anonymous Observer

JJ I Agree

by Anonymous Observer on

He was full of hate, and he was full of something else: a desire for revenge.  I often say that Khomeini's main objective was revenge.  Revenge from the man who exiled him and a nation which, in his mind, did not appreciate him twenty some years earlier when he was exiled.  And he took his revenge...by different means.  By putting that psychotic homicidal lunatic Khalkhali in charge of executions, by pushing to continue a war that was destroying the country and killing scores of its citizens, and many other destructive acts....it was pure revenge... 

His statement upon his arrival back in Iran, when he said that he had "no feelings", should have given everyone a clue of what he will be up to....but unfortunately, our people were blinded by revolutionary fervor and did not see what was coming.


Q

JJ jan,

by Q on

Like it or not, Khomeini's arrival was probably one of the biggest events in Iranian history, certainly the biggest in the past 500 years.

I do not think he was any more "hate filled" than the many thousands of dictators, despots and autocrats who had ruled Iran for millenia, and he had a lot more loyalty in the people than all of them.


deev

JJ

by deev on

Don't be hard on yourself, you were surrounded by a million others who regret it now, vali khob ter zadin =)


IRANdokht

sorry

by IRANdokht on

Can't watch it again. I knew he was full of hate then, and it just bothers me to even think of him now.

What's in the past is gone. What good does it do to look back when most of those people who made the biggest mistake of their lives back then continue to make the wrong decisions and support the wrong people today.

IRANdokht


Jahanshah Javid

Khomeini

by Jahanshah Javid on

This man had lots of hatred and malice in his heart. And I embraced him. Khaak too oon mokham.


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داستان انقلاب و به یغما رفتن اموال سربازان بدبخت

امیر کبیر میگوید مردم در خواب بودند (not verified)


از همان روز شروع به اصطلاح انقلاب، تاسه روز بعد که انقلاب قلابی ساخت انگلستان تحقق گرفت وپرچم انگلیس به ماتحت مام میهن فرورفت بنده نه تنها شاهد تسخیر فرودگاه دوشان تپه، پادگان عشرت آباد، سلطنت آباد، زندان قصر و روز بعد حمله به کاخ سعد آباد و بعد صاحبقرانیه بودم، بلکه از کلیه این اماکن و حمله فقرا و اراذل و اوباش به آن اماکن برای چپاول یکمشت آشغال و دشک و رختخواب و بخاری علائدین و تفنگهای قراضه "ام-یک" و نوار کاست سربازان بدبخت و فقیر عکس گرفتم.

در جمع بین چهار تا پنج نفر جان خود را از دست دادند، که در هر لات بازی واقدام بدزدی و جنایت این تعداد کشته عددی بسیار عادی است.

وای بحال آن جوانانی که امروز باین عکسها نگاه میکنند و تصور میکنند که آنروز واقعا مردم در حال انقلاب بودند. اکثر آن عکسها که در کتاب آفای حاتمی در اینجا چاپ شده است در سرباز خانه پشت سینما مولن روژ گرفته شده است که اگر اشتباه نکنم نام آن عشرت آباد بود. آن مردم با دستهای بالا بعلامت پیروزی نیز اکثرا شادیشان بخاطر همان چاپیدن سربازخانه بود و دزدیدن یکمشت تقنگهای قراضه، پتو و بخاری علائدین! شما اسم آنرا میگذارید انقلاب.

آب از آب تکان نخورد. مردم تمام آنروزها در حال بازی حکم و تخته نرد بودند و حوصله شان که سر میرفت بلند میشدند و میرفتند توی صف نفت و تخم مرغ و نان.

آری این بود انقلاب ایرانی چاپ انگلستان. بنده عکسهای خودرا در پنجاهمین سالگرد آن چاپ خواهم کرد، حالا هنوز خیلی زود است، چون نه رعایت حقوق ناشر و نویسنده بین ما مرسوم است و نه ملت آمادگی روحی دارد که حقایق را بپذیرد.

ملاحظه میفرمائید، حقمان است که انگلستان بیاید و برای ما امام بسازد و برایمان انقلاب کند چون اگر دست خودمان باشد از این هم کثیف تر میشد. شما در کجای تاریخ دیده اید که ملتی که در ناز و نعمت و اوج درآمد از منابع طبیعی خودش است برود و انقلاب کند؟

بیخود ننشینید و بگوئید "یادش بخیر مردم انقلاب کردند و این نتیجه آنست" کدام انقلاب؟ این کاسه کوزه گدائی را ببرید پشت سفارت انگلستان روی جلتان بیاندازید، شاید اقلا یک نهار مفتی عایدتان شود. اکثر روزها پشت سفارت خورش قیمه میدهند، بروید....


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Tasliyat

by Nader Khan (not verified) on

in roze enteghaam ra be melate Iran tasliyat migoyama


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Khalayegh Har Che Layegh

by Mani176 (not verified) on

Khalayegh Har Che Layegh


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yade Imam va Shohada

by billybob (not verified) on

Dello mebareh Karbobala.


پیام

دیدن این

پیام



دیدن این عکسها بسیار غمگین کنندست. دیدن اینکه مردم با چه اشتیقی انقلاب کردند و و چه گران بها پی بردند که چه کلاهی بر سرشون رفته. بسیاری از کسانی‌ که در عکسها به چشم میخورند جونشنو به دست همان کسانی‌ که خود به قدرت رسانده بودند، از دست دادند. خدایا شر جمهوری اسلامی را از سر ما کم بفرما.

 


andishe

Thank you so much for sharing these dreadful historic photos

by andishe on

Its quite fascinating that the islamic revolution happened so late, in the age of mass media and is one of few the revolutions mdoern age revolutions so there is a lof of pictures, audio and film available from this event and the tragedy following it. Some call it the last great (but not a good one) revolution, i think its right to say so.   Again thank you for posting these photos. 

Shirin Vazin

Thanks for sharing! Yaad

by Shirin Vazin on

Thanks for sharing!

Yaad avar-e rooz-haaye por az omid-e nojavaani.


ThePope

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by ThePope on


Darius Kadivar

Interesting Indeed

by Darius Kadivar on

To See the Crowned Cannibal of 79 ...

//www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRE4cs4AEhk

OH SORRY

I Forgot some things are Sacred Here ...

Mille Pardons ! To My North IRANICAN Cousins ...

//www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCPCgAubSMc

Darius KADIVAR

A FRENCH POODLE IRANIAN

Paris, FRANCE