or somebody like ascadero comes in to infiltrate them the the the crowds, which he does, specificallyld be achieved by mid november. on the 6th of november 1978, general golam raza azhari succeeded. sharif ammi, a military government was the last hope, a month later general had heart attack and he was in the hospital and our ambassadorvin went to see him, and 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 2 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 ash