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On Monday, February 1, Iran will start traditional...
The Decade of Fajr celebrations will officially begin at 9:33 local time (06:03 GMT) on Monday, the exact time Khomeini returned to the country from exile. This date, along with February 11 and April 1 (the Islamic Republic Day), are the three major Islamic Revolution holidays.- The first protests against U.S.-backed Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi started in 1977. The demonstrations, which initially gathered a few hundred people, later grew into mass rallies.
- The Iranian revolution officially began on January 8, 1978, when the first major opposition rally was clamped down on by the government in the city of Qom. Protests against the rule of the Shah, organized by the Islamic clergy, continued in all major Iranian cities until early 1979.
- As tensions between the authorities and the opposition almost paralyzed the country in late 1978, the Shah made an attempt to appease protestors by giving the post of prime minister to an opposition leader,
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