Return of the Ayatollah: Iran’s Islamic Revolution

Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini became a lightning rod for the mass protests which overthrew the Shah of Iran in 1979, but the causes of the Iranian Revolution lay elsewhere.

Ayatollah Khomeini greets the crowd at Tehran University after his return from exile in 1979.

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