June 26, 2009--On December 27, 1978, anti-monarchy demonstrators gather outside the Pahlavi Hospital in
Tehran to protest the killing of a professor.
In a square at Tehran University on January 13, 1979, students chant and hold up images of Ayatollah Ruhollah Musavi Khomeini and the former prime minister Mohammed Mossadegh, who had been deposed in a 1953 U.S.-supported coup.
An unnamed supporter of the Shah of Iran (who'd been deposed eight days beforehand) swoons in a rally of pro-monarchy protesters on January 24, 1979, at an athletic arena in Tehran.
Iranian Army gunfire sends revolutionaries running through the Tehran streets on January 28, 1979.
On January 31, 1979, the day before the exiled Ayatollah Khomeini is to return from a 14-year exile in Paris, pro-Khomeini demonstrators--such as this man with a child's blood on his hands--gather in a Tehran park.
After the child had been gunned down, "people ran to the body
dipped their hands in the blood to show someone had been martyred
clipped from: news.nationalgeographic.com 
