Revolution in Iran: Fall of the Shah (TRIH eps 636-639)
1979 · Resource
Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook trace the climactic months of the Iranian Revolution (late 1978–early 1979). Using archival audio of Ayatollah Khomeini and contemporary reportage, they explain how mass protests, the clerical doctrine of velayat-e faqih and events such as the Cinema Rex fire accelerated the collapse of the Shah's regime. The hosts chart the Shah's faltering responses, his departure on 19 January 1979, and Khomeini's celebrity-driven return from exile on 1 February 1979. They...
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Around 1979
- Iranian Revolution (1978)
- Watergate scandal (1972)
- Yom Kippur War (1973)
- Apollo 11 moon landing (1969)
- Chernobyl disaster (1986)
- Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody (1975)
- Night Fever (Bee Gees) (1978)
- Invention of the World Wide Web (1989)
- Another Brick in the Wall (Part II) (Pink Floyd) (1979)
- Pop music: the 1970s (1970)