Before Revolution

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Iran twenty years ago and Iran today, what was and what happened

A snippet of slogans from the revolutionaries of 1979

"We follow the government of Ali,  
We will overthrow the Pahlavi regime."

Ezzatullah Motahari, one of the revolutionaries of 1979: In 1970, when Iran and Israel were playing football in the Asian Games, we formed a group to assassinate Israeli athletes, then we found out that they were heavily protected

At the height of the revolutionary movements on December 18, 1957, some supporters of Shapour Bakhtiar and Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi also came to the streets.

  At the height of the revolutionary movements on December 18, 1957, some supporters of Shapur Bakhtiar and Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi also came to the streets and addressed the revolutionaries who came to the streets on the same day and chanted: Compatriot brother, do not set fire to the country.

56 years ago; Royal dress design in Tehran

A rare image of an Iranian and a banner of the British following the nationalization of the oil industry.

Unpublished images around the Razavi Shrine and the Steel Window, 1977

Tehran on the Day of the Coup, August 19, 1953

As more time passes since the "1979 Revolution," the facts become clearer with the release of additional films and documents.

Sheikh Ahmad Jannati and Sheikh Sadeq Khalkhali among the clerics protesting at the University of Tehran mosque in the days leading up to the victory of the Revolution in February 1979.

Photo from the online archive of the National Library of Iran.

A historical film of an interview with Mr. Marashi, CEO of Tehran Railway and Metro before the revolution

Narration of Dariush Homayun about press censorship

Interview with Harvard University Oral History:

The need for freedom of the press and independent communities

The headline of an information newspaper - July 1979

Published for the first time

A part of Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi's message on the occasion of Ghadir Eid in August 1954

Shah used to say, "He doesn't give us permission either!"

June 25 coincides with the fourth anniversary of the death of Alinaqi Alikhani

A history of a car from the words of Khosrow Mo'tazad/ We had a car mafia during the Shah's time!

The strange story of the car sales mafia in Iran before 1979 from the words of Khosro Mo'tazad

The martyrs of the army who stood against the Russian and British forces

The Ajamedia page of the Islamic Republic of Iran Army has published images for the first time of 24 officers and non-commissioned officers of the army who, in September 1941, stood firm against the Russian and British forces until the last moment despite the treacherous order to cease resistance. They are referred to as the immortal martyrs of the army.

Many sources mention the birthday of Taj Ayromelo known as Taj al-Muluk, the wife of Reza Shah, as March 17, 1896

Clipping from the newspaper "Information" 1977 April 26

An image of a nurse in the 1960s teaching village women population control methods

Today is the anniversary of the execution or in other words the murder of Amir Abbas Hoveyda, the longest serving prime minister in the history of Iran

Today was the anniversary of the shooting of Gholamreza Nikpey

Today was the anniversary of the shooting of Abbas Ali Khaltabari

Teaser of an exclusive interview with Mehdi Chamran, a principled politician and the younger brother of Mustafa Chamran

If someone thinks that #Shah_Saudi is an honorable man and works for the benefit of his country or for the benefit of Islam, what will they say to him? My local kids have a phrase that I won't repeat here.

Russian planes were coming over Tehran and dropping their bombs.

#Hovaida could not serve

If the executions did not happen, the revolution would be in danger

If Hashemi had not told that memory, the story would have been more difficult

#Ahmadi-nejad himself offered to become the president; I was against it.

There was a possibility that #Qalibaf could become the president, but there were circumstances that did not happen.

Today was the anniversary of the execution of Nader Jahanbani, the lieutenant general pilot of the Imperial Air Force and the deputy commander of that force known as General Cheshmabii.

Hossein Allahkaram: Explanation of the theories of "Ted Robert Gurr" and "James David

Hosseinullah Karam: There was no freedom in Iran before the revolution

Teaser of an exclusive conversation with Hosseinullah Karam, one of the commanders of the IRGC and Iraq's war with Iran and the head of the Hezbollah Coordination Council

Hossein Kamali: Before the victory of the Islamic revolution, there was the freedom movement, there were communist groups, loyalist guerrillas, masses, and the People's Mujahideen

Confidential documents in the National Archives of Israel, which were declassified and made available to the public forty years after the Islamic Revolution

In these days, it is not bad to mention Yusuf Khoshkish, the last head of the Central Bank during the Pahlavi era / one of the accusations: fixed exchange rate

In August 1980, Yousef Khoshkish, the ninth and last head of the Central Bank of Iran during the era of Mohammad Reza Shah, was tried for three days on charges such as: not floating the exchange rate and was executed by court order.

Mohammad Atrianfar: In 1978, we were not physically tortured in any way

Mohammad Atrianafar: In 1973, I entered Sharif University of Technology or Ariyamehr and immediately joined the ranks of revolutionary brothers

The subject of the lesson became my secondary subject.

In this process, we usually disturb the order of the university in any situation.

Mohammad Reza Nematzadeh says about the planning of the 1979 revolution strikes...

I and 30-40 of my friends encouraged large industries and the oil industry to strike and helped unemployed workers.

Lucien Georges, the Lebanese reporter of Le Monde, who had the first interview with Ayatollah Khomeini in a western newspaper, died in Beirut

Qutbzadeh took Lucien Georges from Paris to Najaf to see Khomeini. According to Ebrahim Yazdi's memoirs, the Guardian published an English translation of this interview, but the New York Times and the Washington Post refused.

Mehdi Karbasian: I believe that the foundations of the revolution were economic

Yahya Al-Ishaq: It was a theater, they performed the operation naked in front of all the people

Yahya Al-Ishaq: The people's trust has been lost.

Ali Mohammad Besharati: At the Battle of Qadisiyyah, there were 700,000 Iranian soldiers, while the Muslims numbered only 3,000. They [the Muslims] defeated and scattered all of them.

The interview took place in 2018 .

Two documents from Anwar Khameh’i

Khameh’i, a pioneer of Marxism in Iran and a member of the renowned group of 53, was first arrested in May 1937 and was released from prison in October 1941.

The first document is a form detailing his personal information at the time of his arrest, and the second document is a certificate of his release from prison.

A historical picture of Tehran's Baharestan square in 1961

This is a statue of a woman with angel wings holding a tyrannical demon under her feet and a torch of light in her hand.

This statue was in Baharestan Square until the 1979 revolution. At the beginning of the revolution, it was veiled for a while and then it was completely dismantled.

Javad Khadim: I think that after Mr. Khamenei, there will be a change and religion will be abandoned.

A regime that cannot provide people's livelihood has collapsed.

When you regularly threaten the world, this is a sign of weakness.

My advice to Mr. Khamenei is to never think about Mojtaba (his son) becoming the leader.

Javad Khadem: Transition starts from the point where the military forces leave the clergy.

As soon as the clergy is abandoned, the existing regime becomes a military dictatorship, which is easier for the people to confront or coexist with.

Javad Khadem: Bakhtiar had accepted defeat, but Bakhtiar's thought did not fail.

Bakhtiar had reached a point where nothing could be done during his lifetime.

Javad Khadem: After the failure of the coup, I came to the conclusion that nothing will happen for a generation.

Drinking the poison cup was the tact and cleverness of Mr. Khomeini.

I have never cut ties with intelligence agencies.

Most likely, a very big transformation will happen in the Islamic Republic

Javad Khadem: If I go back again, I will choose the coup again.

Today, there are no more conditions for a coup.

Javad Khadem: I feel human guilt and not political guilt that I was responsible for the death of 300 people.

If Mirhossein Mousavi was not afraid of bloodshed, maybe the Green movement would have won.

Javad Khadem: Bakhtiar used to say that he will work with Satan to overthrow this regime. (So ​​he did it with Saddam), Saddam was not a devil.

Neighboring countries are often our backyard.
These countries were all part of Iran and it is not bad to get help from them.

Javad Khadem: The goal of the Nojeh coup was not to weaken the army in any way.

Americans were tired of Saddam attacking Iran. Saddam could not withstand the pressure of war.

Javad Khadem: We were the main culprit of the failure of the Nojeh coup.

Saeed Hajjarian's narrative about how the Nojeh coup was revealed is closer to reality than other narratives.

Javad Khadem: America did not oppose Nojeh's coup.

Saddam gave full support to the coup.

Israel provided informational assistance.

Javad Khadem: When I suggested the coup to Bakhtiar, he was hesitant.

The coup was to prevent Iraq from attacking Iran.

Saddam gave us all the necessary facilities

Javad Khadem: When the news of the revolution's victory was broadcast on the radio, I was in the prime minister's building.

Mr. Bakhtiar said goodbye to each of us.

People were coming from both sides of the palace street.

Javad Khadem: Bakhtiar did not seek to preserve the legacy of the monarchy.

Bakhtiar was a libertarian who wanted democracy for Iran.

Javad Khadem: Narration of the last minutes of Bakhtiar's cabinet in the prime minister's office

Bakhtiar was shocked when Qarabaghi ​​called and informed about the army's neutrality. We had reached the end of the line.

The announcement of the army's neutrality was not a shock to me, But Bakhtiar was shocked.

Javad Khadem: France is a political whore in the real sense

The second face of France is the protection of human rights.

Bakhtiar was a French citizen and his Frenchness was more than his Iranianness.

Javad Khadem: The Shah could stay if he ordered the killing, but the Shah was not able to order the killing.

There was a list of 600 people to "exterminate".
The king wanted - like his father - to get out from under the domination of foreign forces.

Javad Khadem: 20 to 25 people were killed in Jale Square.

When the revolutionaries attacked the weapons depot, I told Bakhtiar to kill him, but he refused.

There may have been bigger killings; But I am not aware of them.

Javad Khadim: The 1979 revolution won 90% because of Khomeini's genius; The rest were tools.

I always considered Khomeini a genius; Because he knew society well.

The likes of Yazdi and Qutbzadeh were tools for Khomeini.

Javad Khadem: Dr. Bakhtiar was during the American talks with Khomeini.

If Bazargan knew what was going to happen, maybe he would not have agreed to become the prime minister and would have helped Bakhtiar.

Khomeini knew that his promises to America were not important.

Javad Khadem: Be sure that in revolutions, the minority with will is more important than the general society.

The king was a prisoner of an illusion and could not resist because of his illness.
The Americans and the British knew that the revolution could not be stopped.

Javad Khadem: When Hoveyda resigned, I said that the imperial regime was destroyed.

We should not think that Bakhtiar did nothing. Bakhtiar started his activity on the same day of Hoveyda's resignation.

Javad Khadem: The Islamic Republic is a version of the Pahlavi regime, but with more violence

The powers of the president today are almost equal to the powers of the prime minister during the time of the Shah.
As Hoveyda was a politician, he could use the same 20% of his authority effectively.

Why did Khomeini prefer Mehdi Bazargan to Shapur Bakhtiar? Conversation with Javad Khadem

Mr. Khamenei - like Khomeini - knows that the presence of strong people around him is dangerous for him.

Mr. Motahari prevented the meeting between Khomeini and Bakhtiar.

Apparently, Khomeini did not say anything irrelevant until he came to power.

Javad Khadem: Mr. Khomeini's Power Was Not Only in Mosques; His Supporters Were Also Present in the Streets

Saeed Hajjarian's account of the Nojeh coup is closer to the truth.

The Shah believed that a king should not kill his own people.

Interview of Hamideh (Noshabeh) Amiri, a reporter at the time of Kayhan in Paris, with Khomeini's wife

A historical image of Amir Abbas Hoveyda's defense text published in the Ettela'at newspaper...

We made both the king and the country miserable by flattery

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