Slideshow: Iranian revolution 1979
BBC
02-Feb-2009 (one comment)

The Iranian revolution put an end to the rule of the Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi, who
had alienated powerful religious and political forces with a programme of modernisation
and Westernisation.

January 1979 saw the US-supported Shah forced to leave the
country after widespread demonstrations and strikes. On 1 February,
Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini returned to Iran following 14 years of exile in Iraq and France for opposing the regime.

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Kaveh Nouraee

Thanks for posting

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Iran went backwards 1500 years and it's all condensed into 2:30.