Marked Tehran

SubjectIn outline · lessons being written

The Iranian Revolution

Mass protests in 1978 forced the Shah of Iran into exile in January 1979. The cleric Ruhollah Khomeini returned and founded an Islamic Republic, which still governs Iran.

Place
Tehran · Qom · ParisThe Middle East
Laid out as
A revolutionHow things were before, the moment it turned, and how things were after.
Lessons
6 planned, none written yet

The lessons we plan

Titles may change as they are written

BeforeA monarchy under the Shah.

  1. IThe Shah’s Iran
  2. IIKhomeini in exile
  3. IIICassette tapes and protest
  4. IV1978
  5. VAn Islamic Republic
  6. VIThe hostage crisis

AfterAn Islamic Republic.

Still to come

The people and objects these lessons will cover

People

  • Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
  • Ruhollah Khomeini
  • Ali Shariati

Objects

  • Revolutionary posters
  • Cassette sermons

Where it sits

All of human history, era by era

Early human ancestryOur species and the Old Stone AgeFarming and the New Stone AgeFirst cities and the Bronze AgeThe Iron Age and growing statesThe classical worldAfter the empiresMedieval networks and empiresOceans crossedRevolutions and the first factoriesIndustry, empire and world warThe world since 1945

1963 to 1981. Each era is drawn the same width, so the earliest are squeezed: era II alone is over 300,000 years.

Nearby in time and place

This page is an outline. The summary above is a starting point; each lesson, when it is written, will give its sources, its pictures and where historians disagree. Spotted a mistake?