According to the report of the Aingadan reporter, when this group left the palace, some of them were crying, and a few protested, saying, “Finally, the Air Force betrayed us; otherwise, we would not have surrendered.” read more Inside the SAVAK headquarters in former Sultanate Abad, Lt. Col. Gholamreza Yousefinejad and Col. Lotfi, commanders of the security guard, handed over the palace to Mr. Mousavi, Maliki, and Siddiqui, representatives of the Ayatollah Khomeini Committee and the People’s Army. After that, armed people, most of whom were local youths, Air Force personnel, and clerics, entered the palace and guarded its various parts. Six tanks were deployed in front of the main doors, with white flags raised on them and pictures of Ayatollah Khomeini on them.