@gavinisdie @sjuvonen @WilliamNB @MeanwhileinCanada ‘53: Mossandegh government was couped out of office and the Shah was installed over oil.
The Khomeini left the country for France in ‘64.
Meanwhile the Tehran Evan prison becomes almost a university.
From the outside Persia looks like a western country then. But the public sees more and more intellectuals in prison.
‘67 German student Benno Ohnesorg is killed by a Stasi IM aside of the visit of the Shah in Germany. Opposition suspected SAVAK