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TEHRAN The chants of “Death to the Supreme Leader” and “Death to Khamenei” which have been heard across Iran in recent weeks are reminiscent of the cries of “Death to the Shah” that resonated throughout 1977 and 1978, in a movement that eventually led to the overthrow of the Shah’s p.
TEHRAN The chants of “Death to the Supreme Leader” and “Death to Khamenei” which have been heard across Iran in recent weeks are reminiscent of the cries of “Death to the Shah” that resonated throughout 1977 and 1978, in a movement that eventually led to the overthrow of the Shah’s p.
Guest View: Time present, time past
M. Reza Behnam
The coup attempt that unfolded on Jan. 6 in Washington D.C., took me back to the summer of my youth in Tehran, Iran in 1953. My grandfather held my hand firmly as we walked to the Majlis (the parliament) in early August of that year to hear Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadeq debate the nationalization of Iranian oil.
Grandfather, a distinguished jurist of Iran’s High Court and former governor general of the province of Khorasan, was a charismatic raconteur and a man of impeccable taste. He had been invited by the prime minister to witness the debate over the future of Iran’s oil, which was then in the hands of the British-owned Anglo-Iranian Oil Company.
The coup attempt that unfolded on January 6, 2021, in Washington D.C., took me back to the summer of my youth in Tehran, Iran in 1953. My grandfather held my hand firmly as we walked to the Majlis (the parliament) in early August of that year to hear Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadeq debate the nationalization […]