Though more militant, they still displayed the same remarkable self-discipline and internal organisation.People of all classes and social backgrounds took part, from the president of a leading bank to the humblest of new arrivals in the slums of south Teheran.
Homayun, as was the custom, passed the article on for publication to the editors of a leading Teheran daily, Eta'alaat.
Later that morning — Friday, September 8th — a large crowd gathered in Jaleh Square, a central meeting spot in downtown Teheran.
Mr. Amini received me at his home, a comfortable villa in the northern section of Teheran.
Back in Teheran, I found mounting turbulence and confusion.
The new market price of $3.65 for a barrel of typical Arabian crude was set to keep a 40 per cent differential between market and posted prices such as existed at the time the Teheran agreement was signed in 1971.
Unusually, they were allowed to visit the former American embassy in Teheran where more than 60 diplomatic staff members were infamously held hostage by revolutionary students in 1979.
The people of Teheran shouted their welcome, while holding their breath and clenching their fists.Related items From the archive: Voting with their stamping feetDec 16th 1978The rising and revolutionary expectation of millions of Iranians had forced Mr Shapour Bakhtiar and the army to abandon their attempts to keep Ayatollah Khomeini out of Iran until he came to terms with them politically.
Cooperatives, secular and religious, are doing much to ease the supply problems of the ordinary citizen and Teheran's chronic traffic jams are sorted out by volunteer traffic wardens.The Kurds in Teheran ever more vehemently repeat their pledge not to break away from Iran, even while ever more Kurdish flags appear in Kurdish areas of western Iran.
FROM OUR TEHERAN CORRESPONDENTWithin two days of the biggest show of solidarity the anti-Shah opposition has ever mounted on Monday well over 1m people demonstrated in Teheran alone a small meeting was taking place in the monarch's palace to discuss a way out that would keep him in power.
Since November 4th last year, when the Iranian mob over-ran the American embassy in Teheran, the wrenching of the lever has become more frenetic, but the consequences of each wrench have remained as unhelpful to the president as ever, for the man who plays fruit machines has no control over the fruit, except to set them a-spinning.
