Iranians couldn’t forgive Britain’s meddling in their country during its 19th-century power struggles with Russia in central Asia – or London and Washington’s role in the 1953 coup that ousted the democratically elected prime minister, Mohammed Mossadeq.
It was the CIA’s first overthrow of a foreign government – salad days for 20th-century international politics.
The same allied powers – Britain and the USSR – that had forced the Shah’s father, Reza Pahlavi, to abdicate in 1941 put his son on the throne the same year.
Opposition to Shah and his backers was never far from the surface.
In 1963, the Shah’s so-called White Revolution, a series of modernizing reforms, brought him into conflict with great leader of the contemporary Muslim world, Imam Khomeini. Imam Khomeini publicly denounced the Shah.
Imam’s subsequent arrest sparked days of protest and clashes with Shah regime across various Iranian cities
Imam spent nearly 15 year in exile before his historic return to Iran in 1979 was sent into exile the following year.
Imam had guided the revolution while in exile in Iraq, Turkey and France.
Imam Khomeini the founder of the Islamic Republic truly exemplified the true and genuine teachings of the holy prophet of Islam and his infallible successors in his lifestyle.
Several pundits believe that Imam Khomeini the founder of the Islamic Republic truly exemplified the true and genuine teachings of the holy prophet of Islam and his infallible successors in his lifestyle.
The various facets of this amazing Islamic leadership of great Imam may be characterized as an exceptional personal integrity, unselfish lifestyle, iron- will, incredible courage and steadfastness.
Imam Khomeini led very simple life before and after the victory of the Islamic Revolution in 1979 and spared no efforts in rendering help to the most poor and needy classes of the society.