Iran, unpublished documents from the Bloody Uprising of June 5,1963.

Title: Iran, unpublished documents from the Bloody Uprising of June 5,1963.

Photographer(s): Various photographers

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Publisher(s): Government and Prime Minister's Communications Office, Teheran, Iran

Year: 1983

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Language(s): Farsi

Pages: 56

Size: 16,5 x 23,5 cm

Binding: Softcover

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Nation(s) and year(s) of Protest: Iran, 1963

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This little book talks about the uprising in Qom which took place on June 5, 1963 followed the protest movement led by Khomeini against the Shah's agrarian reforms and the granting of women's suffrage. It concludes with the religious leader being sentenced to death.

Produced and published by the Government in 1983, to commemorate the fifth anniversary of the revolution, describes how the archives of the Shah's regime were used for propagandistic ends in order to disseminate an Islamic fundamentalist interpretationof the history of the revolution.