Revolution iran

On 8 March 1979, more than 100,000 women gathered on the streets of the Iranian capital to protest against the new Islamic government’s compulsory hijab ruling, which meant that women…

Iranian Women Protest 1979 #inspiration

The fortieth anniversary of the Islamic revolution reopens old wounds among Jews who experienced its cruelty firsthand.

Paris, 1968.

The approximately 1,000 pages of documents also reveal for the first time the details of how the CIA attempted to call off the failing coup.

February 1979, New revolutionaries replace the pictures of Shah at Niavaran Palace with those of Khomeini

The protests we are seeing right now are unprecedented; they could be a sign of things to come for Iran and its people.

Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini The leader and the founder of Iran's 1979 Islamic Revolution raising his hand to a crowd of supporters in the northern Jamaran district of Tehran-Iran,1980..

ALBAWABA - Whether we like it or not, it can be said Iran is witnessing a revolution that is far deadlier than the mass protests witnessed in 2009 and 2

It took Maryam Zandi more than three decades to get her photos of the revolution published

In the mid-1960’s, Reza Deghati taught himself the principles of photography as a 14 year old living in Tabriz, Iran. During the early 1970’s, his pictures were of rural society and architecture, which he then studied at the University of Tehran. The Islamic Revolution in 1979 shifted Reza’s focus to the city, where he covered […]