Sentence examples for overthrow the shah from inspiring English sources

He said: "We believed that we would overthrow the shah and establish a new government, an Islamic government, that would show the world a new way.

This hope may be naïve (once glasnost starts...), but it is a powerful motivation for those who gave their souls to overthrow the shah.

A core of protesters is bent on keeping the torch burning, reminding fellow students that the revolutionaries of 1979 endured nearly a year of repression and street skirmishes before they managed to overthrow the shah.

Dr. Yazdi joined the fledgling opposition party known as the Freedom Movement of Iran and belonged to underground groups that aimed to overthrow the shah, which led to his arrest and beatings by the Savak secret police.

The merchants wield significant power, and this is the first time since the 1979 Islamic Revolution, in which they helped overthrow the shah, that they have protested on so large a scale.

She met her husband at university, when both were involved in the secret campaign to overthrow the shah, and was exiled to the US until his removal in 1979.

Hoping they could realize that promise, Iranians rose up and overthrew the shah.

Many of the Iranian Shiites who later overthrew the Shah were trained there.

He disappeared just months before Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini led the Iranian revolution that overthrew the Shah.

It was, he said, the biggest protest Iran had seen since the 1979 revolution, which overthrew the Shah.

They were there in the 1906 constitutional revolution, and again in the 1979 revolution, which overthrew the Shah.