State television has broadcast pro-government rallies, while at the same time surveillance footage released by the government affiliated Fars news agency depicted a protester in Isfahan allegedly firing a long gun as others lit fires and threw gasoline bombs at what appeared to be a government compound.Another government-affiliated news agency with close ties to Iran's powerful Revolutionary Guard force, Tasnim, reported that authorities had detained nearly 200 people belonging to "operational terrorist teams," alongside allegations those arrested had possessed weapons including firearms, grenades, and gasoline bombs. Reza Pahlavi had left his homeland for flight school at a U.S. air base in Texas a year earlier, in 1978, and subsequently saw his father flee Iran during the onset of what became known as the Islamic Revolution, during which time Shiite clerics established a new theocratic government. And while protesters have shouted in support of the shah in some protests, it is not clear whether that is support for Pahlavi himself or a desire to return to a time before the 1979 Islamic Revolution.
Author: Willem Marx
Published at: 2026-01-10 22:10:49
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