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15 unusual facts about Iranian revolution


9th G7 summit

These economic conditions were stimulated, in part, due to higher oil prices in the early 1980s caused by the Iranian Revolution.

Abdul Rahman Saleem

He left Iran for London in 1979 following the Iranian Revolution where he was bullied and discriminated against for his Asian identity.

Arthur D. Simons

In late 1978, Simons was contacted by Texas businessman Ross Perot, who requested his direction and leadership to help free two employees of Electronic Data Systems who were arrested shortly before the Iranian Revolution.

Elections in Kuwait

This was a deliberate result of the redistricting, and it followed the 1979 Revolution in Iran.

Hossein Hafezian

He has been working on women’s issues since 1996 and has published in 2001 Women and the Revolution: The Untold Story concerning the role Iranian women played during the Iranian Revolution.

Iranzamin School

After the Iranian Revolution of 1979, the Iranzamin School moved to the Kingdom of Spain and was renamed as the International College Spain (ICS), with its first location in Estepona.

IRIB World Service

Following the Iranian Revolution, elaborating on the revolution’s stances and the ideals of the Islamic Republic system were put high on the radio’s agenda.

Kia Zolgharnain

Although born in Iran, Zolgharnain’s family fled the country after the 1978 Iranian Revolution.

Ladan and Laleh Bijani

The Bijani sisters were lost in a hospital in 1979 after the doctors responsible for them fled back to the United States during the Islamic revolution.

Leila Pahlavi

She was nine years old when her family was forced into exile as a result of the Iranian Revolution.

Mehrab Shahrokhi

Acting was not his passion though, and he became the manager of several teams after retirement, but was not able to achieve anything impressive, as the Iranian Revolution and Iran–Iraq War caused football's presence to diminish in 1980s Iran.

Mirza Sayyed Mohammad Tabatabai

After the Iranian Revolution of 1979, the status of Sheikh Fazlollah Noori as a revolutionary has been fully restored.

Randy Daniels

He became a familiar face on the evening news, covering eight wars and the Iranian Revolution.

Sergey Ponomarev

Ponomarev was the first foreign professional footballer to play in the Iranian Football League (Azadegan League) after the Iranian Revolution.

Son of Maryam

The movie is about a young Persian boy who befriends an Assyrian priest and learns tolerance toward Christians in post-revolution Iran.


A Thousand Years of Good Prayers

Running parallel to this plot is Mr. Shi's park bench meetings with an elderly woman, Madam (Vida Ghahremani), who had fled to the United States from Iran after the revolution.

International isolation

The concept "falling off the map" was used by political writer V. S. Naipaul in reference to the growing international isolation of the Islamic Republic of Iran after being in the limelight during the times of Shah Rezā Pahlavi and during the first years of the Revolution.

Ken Knabb

Knabb's own writings include leaflets, comics, pamphlets and articles on Wilhelm Reich, Georges Brassens, Gary Snyder, the 1960s hip counterculture, the 1970 Polish revolt, the 1979 Iranian revolution, the 1991 Gulf war, the 2006 anti-CPE revolt in France, and the 2011 Occupy movement.

Masoud Jafari Jozani

His 2009 film In the Wind's Eye, the conclusion to his television series Dar Chashm-e Baad, was partially filmed in Los Angeles, making it the first Iranian production to be shot in the United States since the 1979 Iranian Revolution.

Paper shredder

After the Iranian Revolution and the takeover of the U.S. embassy in Tehran in 1979, Iranians enlisted local carpet weavers who reconstructed the pieces by hand.

Payam Akhavan

Akhavan was born in Tehran, Iran and moved in his childhood to Toronto, Canada to flee persecution of the Baha’i religious minority before the 1979 Islamic revolution.

Tabriz National Library

After the revolution the initial building was destroyed by clerical hardliners in 1978 and the books moved to other buildings near to the Golestan Park, when they were destroying the historic Tabriz City Theater building that was placed behind the library building to make a new mosque.