Thursday, March 19, 2015

25 Photos of Iran Before the 1979 Revolution

"Before the Ayatollah became the Supreme Leader of Iran, the country experienced 

a period of secularism under the Shah—but his dictatorship eventually led to 

his downfall. "(With the help of Jimmy Carter)


By  in the National Journal
The courtyard of the Church of the Holy Redeemer in the city of Isfahan, circa 1948


A royal portrait of Princess Fawzia bint Fuad of Egypt, the first wife of the Shah. Known in newspapers worldwide as "one of the world's most beautiful women," she filed for divorce in 1948 and returned to Egypt, leaving her daughter, Shahnaz, in Iran. After her brother, King Farouk, abdicated the throne and fled Egypt, she led a quiet life in Alexandria with her second husband. Upon revisiting the royal palace 24 years after the abdication, she said, “Twice in my life I lost the crown. Once I was the queen of Iran, and once I was the princess here."(Public Domain/Wikimedia Commons)

The exterior of Tehran's Theatre Saadi, where a group of people study a billboard, circa 1950.

A student at a vocational-training school for seamstresses inspects her work, circa 1952. The school was one of the first for girls and was founded by the government in Tehran.(Three Lions/Getty Images)

Chirine Tahmassab, Iran's first female foreign diplomat, pictured on February 17, 1967.

Then came Jimmy Carter and this man who said “There is no humor in Islam. There is no fun in Islam.”:

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