that the the americans didn't learn about it, because there was an unr.

mohammed razza shah had tough time during the mid-1978. he was straining every nerve to keep his relations with the carter administration, but the united states didn't seem to grasp the gravity of the situation in iran. i don't know enough about jimmy card's mindset. maybe gary sick does, i mean i don't know if jimmy carter really said to himself, if we got rid of the shah of iran, everything would be terrific in iran bause we'll bring about democratic, libertarian, secular government, or whether jimmy carter didn't realize what he was saying or didn't or thought that the shaw was so strong and powerful a character like ferdinand marcos that this stuff would go over big in the united states but it wouldn't matter the shaw. "the ladder is my guess is that carter

had no understanding of how weak the show was. i was the person that was responsible for reporting to the president of the united states about what was going on. i wasn't the only person, but i was the principle, that was my job. and i wrote memos saying, there are demonstrations, uh, there are problems, of we're seeing signs that things are not going well, it doesn't seem to be getting better, but i do remember vividly in..." august of 1978, which was quite a long ways into it, though the biggest demonstrations hadn't happened yet, um, ambassador sullivan was on vacation and came home and and i took him into the white house to see uh, mr. bushinsky, the national security advisor, and he, i was in the room with... and and

sullivan, and sullivan said to him, brizinski asked him, what, what's going on in iran, and and what, what's the situation, and he said, don't worry about it, the shah has it all under control, and you have nothing to worry about, set against such backdrop, the shah appointed jaff.

فکر نخواهم کرد فقط مصالح مملکت اختلافاتی که پیش آمده است به علت عدم تماس به وجود آمده اگر ما با دست جات مختلف هر چقدر باشن تماس پیدا بکنیم با هم مذاکره بکنیم صحبت بکنیم تفاهم به of وجود بیاریم رفع اختلاف خواهد شد اگر حرف حساب دارن باید ما بپذیریم اگه حرف ناحسابم دارن ما به اونها باید بفهمانیم که به این دلیل. این

کارتون یا این حرفتون یا این تقاضاتون ناحسابه و با این ترتیب بنده فکر می کنم که اون هایی که واقعاً حسن نیت دارن و مخالف هستن رفع. by september 1978, the shah had changed his tune on public demonstrations. he called for martial law in the capital city of tehran and other big cities. demonstrations were

prescribed, nighttime curfew was imposed and arrest warrants were issued for opposition leaders. با توجه به اینکه حکومت نظامی برقرار شده آیا دولت در مورد آزادی های اجتماعی سیاستش را

تغییر خواهد داد یا خیر مطلقا سیاست آزادی که دولت دارد اینها تغییر نخواهد کرد به جهت وضعی که متأسفانه لیلی پیش آوردن ناچار شدیم که این تصمیمات گرفته بشه ولی ما کمال آزادی رو تأمین خواهیم کرد و همین طور که در مجلس هم من اعلام کردم از مجلس شروع خواهد شد که نمایندگان مردم در اونجا هستند تمام مذاکرات مجلس در رسانه های گروهی منعکس خواهد شد و مردم احساس خواهند کرد به اینکه اون وضعی که سابقاً مذاکرات مجلس در خارج. on september 8th, 1978, the faint hope of reconciliation between the protest movement and the shas regime vanished when a great number of demonstrators were slaughtered near j square in tehran. the day

was called black friday. and let's forget he was pretty stupid during this period too, instead of going to his cherished allies for 30 sears years and saying look, i've got a problem, he was attempting to deal with them in his own land, in fact the guy he picked his deputy inspector general of imperial guard had been a homani guy for five years, you know, or maybe three years, but "he was, he went straight to home, that's why the raproshma with the religious leaders that he tried for in the spring of 78, didn't work, because the guy that was running it from his shob was running to screw it up on how many's benefit. i believe that the secret of understanding the shaw is to understand that in fact the

shaw was very weak personality who had very low sense of self-worth, of self-esteem, he was not a powerful character." "and the result of that was that he was partially for good reasons, partially for not so good reasons, eternally fearful of being overthrown. i mean, one has to remember that his father was overthrown by foreign powers, one has to remember that he was the subject of assassination attempt in which bullets actually entered his body, so that would make one pretty fearful of future assassination attempts, that was in 1949, one has to remember that in 1953 the united states..." over threw mosadec with the cooperation of the british, not quite clear what the role of the cia was, what the role of the british was, but all that to the aside, and brought the shah back to power, so if we were able to get rid of mosadec, we could probably get rid the shah, and he was always concerned about

the fact that in fact he was not sufficiently important to america that he would be guaranteed to be kept in power, the country had... passed the point of no return in span of four months from october 1978 to january 1979, momentous events happened just to accelerate the... downfall of the shah. the period was marked by widespend opposition, massive strikes and demonstrations through the whole country. during this period of time, the shah's men left the country one by one and soon the shah found himself alone, in deep depression and under the world's media spotlight. this time the united states seemed to be fair weather friend of the shah. the shah came. to the united states for medical treatment in would have been i guess 19 early

198, late 1979, early 198 somewhere, helmes went to see him in the hospital in new york, and the first thing the shah said to him was, why did you americans turn against me? so certainly by the time the revolution got underway, he had... his doubts about us and i think it affected his ability to manage the crisis. sharif ammi began a policy of meeting the opposition's demands before being made. he did away with the unpopular rastar party and announced all political parties in the country legal. hundreds of political prisoners were released and freedom of expression became a civil right. the prime minister also curtailed samac's powers.

are rebellious, politically inept, the sharif emami administration was unable to appease the angry opposition, and as for the americans, they hadn't reached a consensus on what attitude they had to take towards the revolution. the disagreement between brezinski, carter's national security advisor, and cyrus vans, the secretary of state, was just case in. point, most americans couldn't find iran a map if they tried, they have absolutely no idea what's

going on in europe in the last 300 years, americans are very, very, very parochial, i mean, their greatest interest is who's winning the the super bowl or the in a world series right now, what's happening to their personal health insurance, they just don't have any real appreciation for foreign cultures of any kind, and it's not just the... and large numbers of people in the uh put into public office, don't get it. i had a colleague that went in to see george bush reasonably after the election, it spent 45 minutes of his hour with bush trying to explain the difference between sunnis and shiits and came out tearing his hair, and this was fellow that got elected president, you know, there's just very, very limited understanding of, foreign nations and cultures, we're superpowered by the fact that... super economic power and a super military power, we're not a super power in terms of foreign understanding. problem was

you had a regime, an administration, i should say, carter administration that had deeply divided council about countries like iran. what they did do is bring in a guy by the name of stanascadero, who was a later ambassador to, i think azerbaijan and and some other one other country in the the caucasus after the break up of the... union and and escadero was kind of a controversial figure in the sense that he had been an outspoken critic in the mid-70s of our support of essentially of putting all the american national security eggs in the shaw's basket. the third problem was that the american embassy in tehran was wowfully ill-informed about what was going on on the street and and escadero was critical of that uh but it almost terminated his career cuuse ran counter to what uh then secretary of state kissinger was advocating the us policy and the ford and and tailwind of the nixon

administration, but he was also a fluent farcy speaker, and so when the revolution happened, sulvan asked for escadero or somebody like escadaro comes in to infiltrate them the the the crowds, which he does specifically to try to get a sense of what the ground truth is with the demonstrators and escadero ends up reporting back repeatedly with sullivan he meets religious leaders, he meets student leaders, he he gets a very good sense of the opposition to the shah, reports back to solven and sent she convinced with sullovan's views that the shaw is done, this is a wid spread opposition movement uh, it it goes across not only religious, but all the stratus, from the bazar to the to the uh the gomme and the religious movement, and even in elements within the military. by autumn, popular support for the revolution was to the maximum. those against the revolution preferred not to speak out, that's while some

predicted that the victory would be achieved by mid november. on the 6th of november 1978, general gulam riza azhari succeeded sharifa mami, a military government was the last hook. a month later, general gari had heart attack and he was in the hospital and our ambassador sovin went to see him and um, while he was there, the general waved him over to his bedside and said, and he whispered in his ear, he said, the country is lost, for the king cannot make up his mind, and to me, i didn't hear about this until later, actually, but it is the single clearest description of the problem, the shaw

had lots of of assets at his command, lots of resources that he could use, "and he couldn't make up his mind how to use them or to use them effectively. on december 2nd, over two million people in tehran took to the streets heading for azadi square. they called for the downfall of the shah and the return of imam khumaini. the time that almost everybody realized there was a problem that maybe it had gone too far was..." at the time of the ashua teshua riots in early december news came out that they were going to have a massive demonstration, they said they were going to have it, the army threatened to to stop it, things were getting bad uh, and when the demonstrations took place at million 200,00 people in the streets and i did most the count, i was experienced at berkeley

where i used to count the demonstrators for the local press, about million 200 thousand, no violence. a few days later on december 10th and 11th reportedly. around 9 million people throughout the country staged large demonstrations, even discounting for exaggeration, these figures may represent the largest protest event in history. the world radically changed in 1979, mean even independent of the iranian revolution, you had this start of an islamic century, you had

the soviet invasion of afghanistan, which ultimately showed that a small sort of religious power could in fact challenge militarily a superpower and win, so the whole way the world was being perceived changed, and one key piece of it was the iranian revolution, so nobody knew how to deal with this, we didn't, the russians didn't, so the world radically changed in this very critical year of 1979. by mid-december, the shah's position had deteriorated to appoint the... he wanted only to be allowed to stay in iran, but he was turned down by the opposition. in late december, he agreed to leave the country temporarily, and still he was turned down. on january 16th, 1979, lashah and his wife left

iran. do you expect the shah to return to iran and if well he says he's taking an extended vacation and obviously he's leaving you with lot of problems to try to solve and well of power to rule the country too. "in the end it was the shaw was responsible in the sense that i think he came to believe that the greatest obstacle to his realizing

his great ambitions for his people, the country of iran also, were the iranian people, and if it weren't for them everything would be great. well, it's pretty hard for a king to stay in power when he thinks his people are the obstacle to the realization of his dreams to make a great country. scenes." spontaneous joy followed and within hours almost every sign of the pahlavi dynasty was erased. کاخ نیاوران سقوط کرد. تمام

the welcoming crowd of several million iranians was so large that he was forced to take a helicopter after the car he was was being transported in from the airport was overwhelmed by an enthusiastic crowd. now the undisputed leader of the revolution, ayatalah khumaini, was greeted with cries of khumeini,

oh imam, we salute you, peace be upon you, and islam, islam, khumeini, we will follow you. ما را خراب کرد قبرستان های ما را آباد کرد یه ملتی که فریاد می کند که این ملت این دولتمون این شاهمون این مجلسمون برخلاف قوانین است و حق

شرعی و حق قانونی و حق بشری ما این است که سرنوشتمون دست خودمون باشد آیا حق این ملت این است که یک قبرستان شهید برای ما?

wushu or chinese kangfu is a blend of chinese martial arts with eastern philosophical backgrounds. competitive buushu is composed of two disciplines: sanda, which means sparring, and taolu. a series of predetermined movements combined so they can be practiced as a continuous set of movements. in 1991, iran participated in wushu competitions for the first time and caught up with the chinese who are the founders of the sport, world. wushu championships are held every two years and every time in a different country with 35 gold, 19 silver and 20 bronze medals, iran ranked second in the world after china. finally, in the 2017 world wushu championships held in the russian city of kazan, iran became the only country in the sanda discipline to defeat the chinese who had won every one of the 13 championships up

to that year. setting a new record in the history of the sport, with seven gold and one silver medal, iranian sander practitioners came first place in the world, replacing the previous ranking with chinas. was a journalist during the revolution, they said, oh the ayatullah homani is coming to paris, it's a very old story, 41 years ago i arrived here. yeah, he just told me like a grandfather, you know, the the the interesting part of the story is not me, i'm not the one important, what is important is to continue what you have done in iran, someone called me telling me, you should come to paris quickly, because the imam fameni is going back to terron and we want you to be in the plane, the imam homani during the flight

was sleeping upstairs when the imam. many arrive from paris with a special plane, the first stop he made was here and it was a way to say, now i am in charge, it's finished, the time of of the show is over.

headlines on press tv, israel continues to target major hospitals across the gaza strip as total death toll from the regime's genocide nears 28, most. the women and children, the leader of iran's islamic revolution describes the tragedy of gaza as a tragedy of humanity which shows the invalidity of the current world order. the leader of the ansar allah movement says yemen will keep targeting israeli link ships in the red sea until the war and the blockade on gaza ends.