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Tehran
• Gateway into Iran• Tehran’s Azadi Square• Azadi Freedom Tower
• Built in 1971• Made of 8000 stone
blocks• Renamed during the
Revolution
MUHAMMAD REZA SHAH PAHLAVI
Shah of Iran (1941-1979) In the 1960's and 1970's
Diplomancy with the Soviet Union and communist states in eastern Europe.
Close connections with the USA.
Foreign aid to stay in power. In 1953 assistance from the USA
to return from a 3-day exile. Mohammad Reza Shah was
removed by the Islamic revolution of 1979
5-year plans of the mid-1970's had failed.
Ayatollah Khomeini
Leader of Iran’s Shiite Muslims Lead Islamic fundamentalist
revolution Held over 50 U.S. embassy
workers hostage for over a year. He had thousands of Iranians put
in prison or executed for opposing his ideas.
In the 1980’s Saddam Hussein ordered an invasion of Iran, which led to the Iran-Iraqi war.
Iranian leaders used the invasion to rally the people behind the Khomeini government.
1979 Iranian Revolution
Supporter of the Shah is Lynched, Tehran, 1979
Iran becomes anIslamic Republic
in 1979
Members of the Shah’s secret police take to the streets to stop riots.
Students of Iran stormed the American embassy in Tehran,Seizing Americans atgunpoint And holding them as prisoners.
When the Shah was allowed into the U. S. for medical treatment for his cancer, the Iranian people took to the streets.
Graffiti on a wall of the U. S. embassy reads,”We will make America face a severe defeat.”
Revolution Images