Iran, 1979.
On November 4, 1979, an angry mob of Iranian students, stoked by the Iranian Islamic [...]
On November 4, 1979, an angry mob of Iranian students, stoked by the Iranian Islamic [...]
Predating Iran’s Islamic Revolution by only seven months, Egypt became the first Arab Sunni country [...]
Also in November 1979, was the largely lesser-known seizure of the Grand Mosque in Mecca, [...]
Meanwhile, next door in Iraq, Saddam Hussain, head of a secular political movement, the Ba’ath [...]
It was the death of the Shah and subsequent Iraqi invasion of Iran that led [...]