https://www.cbs8.com/article/news/local/iran-before-the-1979-revolution/509-2dd2c2a2-3b03-4d9d-92c7-68d7ce1663a4
Farin Iranpour shared her memories of a free Iran in this very personal story written by Neda. Her pictures may look like fun memories from the 1960's and 70's here in California. Teenagers are

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dx7PgvtCsNo
As we see images of Iran, it looks like it's been ravaged by war. It's hard to fathom Iran used to be a country full of culture, freedom, the arts, and women

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-47032829
The Islamic Revolution of 1979 brought seismic changes to Iran, not least for women. One area that has come under scrutiny is the way women dress and wear their hair - the old Shah, in the 1930s

https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/iran-before-revolution-photos/
The Islamic Republic imposes strict rules on Iranian life. This extended photo collection shows Iranian society prior to the 1979 Islamic Revolution and, it's obvious that Iran was a very different world. It was also a world that was looking brighter for women. And, as everyone knows, when things get better for women, things get better for

https://www.cbs8.com/video/news/local/life-in-iran-before-islamic-republic-regime/509-29964605-9c94-414a-ae7a-c4d63fa1380e
CBS 8's Neda Iranpour has a one-on-one interview with her mom about her memories of a free Iran.

https://theweek.com/news/society/958583/life-in-iran-before-the-1979-islamic-revolution
For nearly 40 years up until 1979, the country had been ruled by the pro-Western Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. During his autocratic reign, "Iran's economy and educational opportunities expanded

https://intpolicydigest.org/before-and-after-iran-1979/
Women in Iran before the Revolution. (Nevit Dilmen) It was also a world that was looking brighter for women. And, as everyone knows, when things get better for women, things get better for everyone. After the Islamic Revolution in 1979, when Ayatollah Khomeini deposed the Shah of Iran, 70-years of advancements in Iranian women's rights were rolled back virtually overnight.

https://www.historyonthenet.com/middle-east-the-iranian-revolution
The Iranian Revolution of 1979 is an even that is poorly understood in the West. That is because it is a complex mixture of twentieth-century Cold War politics, a modern strain of political Islam, and both these elements mixed with a Persian culture thousands of years old that predates the great monotheistic religions.. This article will look at the origins of Persian culture, the events that

https://culanth.org/fieldsights/rights-in-the-age-of-benevolence-womens-revolutionary-uprisings-in-iran
During the 1979 Iranian Revolution, leaders sought to challenge Iran's emulation of Western societies and aimed to turn the country back to some "authentic" cultural values. At that time, revolutionary actors mobilized images of women, dressed in black chadors , as symbolic foils to individuated Western women who were seen as objectified

https://www.brookings.edu/articles/what-to-read-to-understand-the-1979-iranian-revolution/
9 min read. Iran's revolution has inspired countless books, articles, films, and commentary. On the 40th anniversary of that momentous event, we've compiled some recommendations on further

https://archive.storycorps.org/interviews/the-iranian-revolution-of-1979-through-the-eyes-of-a-fleeing-immigrant/
Pamela Shamshiri was nine years old when the Iranian Revolution began. Pamela and her mother and brother were in Los Angeles for Christmas when the revolution started. Her father went back to Iran, but the other three family members stayed in Los Angeles and never went back to their home. In this interview, Pamela Shamshiri details her experience with the dramatic Iranian Revolution. Pamela is

https://www.fpri.org/2015/04/iran-before-and-after-1979-how-did-we-get-here-from-there/
April 24, 2015. Thirty-six years ago on February 11, 1979, Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi's monarchy came to an end and with it the commencement of an era of disorder throughout the Middle East. Just previously characterized by President Jimmy Carter as an "island of stability," the political Shi'a clerics' rapid confiscation of the state

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iranian_Revolution
The Iranian Revolution ( Persian: انقلاب ایران, Enqelâb-e Irân [ʔeɴɢeˌlɒːbe ʔiːɾɒːn] ), also known as the 1979 Revolution and the Islamic Revolution ( انقلاب اسلامی, Enqelâb-e Eslâmī ), [4] was a series of events that culminated in the overthrow of the Pahlavi dynasty in 1979.

https://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/21/arts/international/rare-glimpses-of-irans-lost-underworld.html
Kaveh Golestan's photographs of prostitutes in Tehran's red-light district before the 1979 revolution are on view in Amsterdam through May 4.

https://journals.calstate.edu/tthr/article/download/2666/2335/
This study will analyze these memoirs and interviews of Iranian women's experiences during and after the Revolution, which helped to identify how education, religion, and social class led women to support the revolution as well as shaped women's identities in post-revolutionary Iran. Historians first started writing about women in the

https://www.brookings.edu/articles/four-decades-later-did-the-iranian-revolution-fulfill-its-promises/
The 1979 Iranian revolution promised three goals: social justice, freedom and democracy, and independence from great power tutelage. Iran's paradoxical quest for social justice

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESy7x16vlgc
📜 Journey through History: Discover the pivotal moments that led to the Iranian Revolution of 1979. Uncover the socio-political landscape of Iran before the

https://www.institute.global/insights/geopolitics-and-security/ideology-and-irans-revolution-how-1979-changed-world
Many Iranians emerged from the eight-year war with Iraqi President Saddam Hussein exhausted and in search of a détente. But others, gathered around the new supreme leader, were wedded to an uncompromising revolutionary ideology that effectively pitted Iran against the world—the Americans to the west and the Soviets to the east—in which regional players were proxies and pawns in the wider

https://www.thecollector.com/iranian-revolution-sociocultural-effects/
The Sociocultural Effects of the 1979 Iranian Revolution. The 1979 Iranian Revolution caused a cultural upheaval in favor of Shia Islam, opposing the Western culture that the Shah was previously moving toward. Oct 3, 2023 • By Madison Whipple, BA History w/ Spanish minor. Iran has a storied cultural history.

https://mondoweiss.net/2024/06/in-tehran-gaza-rekindles-the-revolution/
Yasser Arafat meeting with Ruhollah Khomeini, February 12, 1979. (Photo: Wikimedia Commons) Punishing the revolution. Iranians would relieve their country of U.S. bases.

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/uwhos/can_somebody_explain_the_causes_of_the_1979/
What was life like before the revolution? Most people were illiterate and poor, and children didn't live very long. "Islamic Republic of Iran's HDI [Human Development Index] value for 2011 is 0.707—in the high human development category—positioning the country at 88 out of 187 countries and territories.

https://www.moma.org/calendar/film/5632
Film series. Oct 13-Nov 27, 2023. The most comprehensive survey of Iranian pre-revolutionary cinema ever assembled in North America, Iranian Cinema before the Revolution features rediscoveries and rarely seen classics made between 1925 and 1979, an immensely creative and tumultuous period in Iran's history. Spanning the 50-odd years between the rise of the Pahlavi Dynasty in 1925 and the

https://letterboxd.com/samredfern/list/iranian-cinema-before-the-revolution-1925/
Running from Oct 13 through to Nov 27. The most comprehensive survey of Iranian pre-revolutionary cinema ever assembled in North America, Iranian Cinema before the Revolution features rediscoveries and rarely seen classics made between 1925 and 1979, an immensely creative and tumultuous period in Iran's history.

https://www.reddit.com/r/OldSchoolCool/comments/663t1d/my_mom_before_and_after_the_1979_iranian_islamic/
I do know there was a "Women's March" against the forced Hijab in 1979: The day 100,000 Iranian women protested the head scarf And I know things have changed a bit since I was in Iran more than a decade ago. Also, my mom once got arrested for her scarf being too colorful. But that was early after the revolution. Colorful hijabs are common now.

https://transcripts.cnn.com/show/camp/date/2024-06-29/segment/01
In 2022, Amini's death in custody of Iran's so-called morality police sparked an uprising, demanding justice and reform with the popular rallying cry, "women, life, freedom". I was there for the now infamous elections of 2009 reporting on those demanding change in the largest challenge to the Islamic Republic since its inception back in 1979.

https://edition.cnn.com/2024/06/29/middleeast/iran-presidential-election-runoff-inconclusive-first-round-intl/
After losing his wife and one of his children in a 1994 car crash, he devoted much of his time to politics. Pezeshkian ran for president in the 2013 and 2021 elections, but failed to make headway.