Скачать или смотреть SYND 15 9 78 FUNERAL OF ANTI SHAH DEMONSTRATOR IN IRAN

(14 Sep 1978) Thousands appear at a traditional Muslim funeral of a victim of the current unrest. Unofficially the death toll is put as high as 250. Tehran is in the grip of an army that the populace has learned to fear with good reason. There is an increasingly large number of tanks and armoured vehicles visible. It is from the mosques that opposition to the Shah is being led by puritanical Shiite muslims opposed to his efforst to liberalise and modernise the country, especially the emancipation of women. Though the Shah is still determined to continue his programme of liberalisation, he has been forced to declare martial law in Tehran and 11 other towns.

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