....”I think some Soviet communists came out of the woodwork along with the Ayatollahs to create modern Iran”....
That may very well be so Nex.
Who actually snuffed the Shah? I knew the Revolution came out of that... but the hour is late and my mind cylinders are getting sluggish...I forgot and can’t bring it to mid???
There was a fire in a movie theater which resulted in a lot of deaths. Rioting that broke out in connection with it spread far and wide across the country to the point where the police and military were unable or unwilling to control it.
The Shah asked Jimmy Carter for help but Carter told him he
had to go, so the Shah ended up in exile in Panama and he died (1980) after being forced out of Panama and given refuge in Egypt by Mubarak’s predecessor Anwar Sadat.