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Iranian demonstrators march next to a domestically-built missile during a rally commemorating anniversary of 1979 Islamic Revolution that toppled the late pro-U.S. Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and brought Islamic clerics to power
TENS of thousands of Iranians took to the streets today to mark the anniversary of the country’s 1979 Islamic Revolution.
Iranian state television aired commemorations at sites across the country.
The annual remembrance of the end of the rule of the United States-backed Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and the creation of Iran’s Shiite theocracy comes this year as deep uncertainty lingers across the country.
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In the second of two articles, STEVE BISHOP looks at how the 1979 revolution’s aims are obfuscated to create a picture where the monarchists are the opposition to the theocracy, not the burgeoning workers’ and women’s movement on the streets of Iran