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Early in the year 1971, when preparations for the commemoration of 2,500 years of the Persian Empire were in full swing, 13 heavily-armed young men attacked a gendarmerie post in the village of Siahkal on the shores of the Caspian. The poster proclaims: "We shall make Iran Siahkal from end to end." In the years between Siahkal incident and the beginning of the Islamic revolution, urban guerrillas launched many attacks against the Shah's regime.

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Stirring a nation
Symbols of the 1979 revolution
September 3, 2001
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From Staging a Revolution : The Art of Persuasion in the Islamic Republic of Iran

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