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Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi declared a three-day mourning period, and the government radio broadcast readings from the Koran...
...after day they marched, tens of thousands strong, defiant chanting demonstrators surging through the streets of Tehran, a capital unaccustomed to the shouts and echoes of dissent. The subject of their protest was the policies of Iran's supreme ruler, Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi. Some carried signs demanding his ouster. Others called for a return of long denied civil and political liberties and the enforcement of Islamic laws. A few even demanded the legalization of the Tudeh, Iran's outlawed Communist party. The crowd, at times numbering more than 100,000, was a colorful, sometimes incongruous cross section of Iranian...
Khomeini lives in Iraq and still leads the opposition against the Shah. "The people will not rest," he declared last month, "until the Pahlavi rule has been swept away and all traces of tyranny have disappeared." Scoffing at the Shah's promise to allow free elections next year, Khomeini said: "As long as the Shah's satanic power prevails, not a single true representative of the people can possibly be elected...
...been five different Shahs, a civil war and several coups d'état. In 1941 the Shah's father, a German sympathizer, was forced to abdicate when the Allies needed a secure route to channel war supplies to Russia. British and Soviet forces occupied Iran, and Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, then 22, took power. After the war, the Soviets stayed on and set up a puppet regime in the northern province of Azerbaijan. The young Shah brought the issue before the United Nations Security Council and succeeded in having them thrown...
...Shah's recently restored imperial calendar would be scrapped and replaced by the old Islamic calendar that the Muslim religious leaders had been demanding.* The government further announced that the country's eight big gambling casinos, including the four owned by the Shah's charitable Pahlavi Foundation, would be shut down. The post of Minister of State for Women's Affairs was abolished to appease the mullahs, who claimed that liberalization policies in women's rights were undermining the sanctity of the Islamic household. Half a dozen religious leaders who had been jailed for leading...