1979 homeland revolution in pictures

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Between August and December 1978, strikes and demonstrations paralyzed the country. The Shah left homeland for exile on 16 January 1979, as the last Persian monarch, leaving his duties to a regency council and Shapour Bakhtiar who was an opposition-based prime minister.

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