a month later, general azhari had heart attack and he was in the hospital, and our ambassadorvin went count the demonstrators for the local press, about million 200,00, no violence, and everybody concluded the show was gone. 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 the 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 super power and win, so the whole way the world was being perceived changed and one 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 point that he wanted only to be allowed to stay in iran,

on the 6th of november 1978, general gulam riza azhari succeeded sharifa mami, a military governmenturn 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 of 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 ulti

on the 6th of november 1978, general gulam riza azhari succeeded sharif emmami, a military governmenty said they were going to have but the army threatened to to stop it, things were getting bad uh, and when the demonstrations took place at million 200 thousand people in the streets and i did most of the count, i was experienced at berkeley where i used to count the demonstrators for the local press, about million 200 thous, no violence, and everybody concluded the show was gone. 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, i mean even independent of the iranian revolution, you had the 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 iran

on the 6th of november 1978, general golam raza azhari succeeded.ey 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 thousand people in the streets and i did most of the count, i was experienced at berkeley where i used to count the demonstrators for the local press, about million 200 thous, no violence and everybody concluded the show was gone. 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, yo