While awaiting the departure of the shah for "holidays", Iran knows a situation of double power: Ayatollah Khomeini has posed, since Paris, as political chief and has constituted a "council of the Islamic revolution ". In the street, "C'est la fete": The demonstrators fraternized with the soldiers (who sometimes displayed portraits of Khomeini on their cars), Tehran, Iran, January 14, 1979

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While awaiting the departure of the shah for "holidays", Iran knows a situation of double power: Ayatollah Khomeini has posed, since Paris, as political chief and has constituted a "council of the Islamic revolution ". In the street, "C'est la fete": The demonstrators fraternized with the soldiers (who sometimes displayed portraits of Khomeini on their cars), Tehran, Iran, January 14, 1979
While awaiting the departure of the shah for "holidays", Iran knows a situation of double power: Ayatollah Khomeini has posed, since Paris, as political chief and has constituted a "council of the Islamic revolution ". In the street, "C'est la fete": The demonstrators fraternized with the soldiers (who sometimes displayed portraits of Khomeini on their cars), Tehran, Iran, January 14, 1979
Artist/Maker (Iranian, 1944 – 2018)
DateJanuary 14, 1979
MediumVintage resin-coated gelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 9 1/4 × 6 1/4 in. (23.5 × 15.9 cm) Sheet: 10 × 8 in. (25.4 × 20.3 cm)
Credit LineGift of Thomas J. Wilson and Jill M. Garling, P2016
Object number2025.30.3
Not on view
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Additional Details

Markings Verso, middle (company stamp):
"gamma
11, rue des Petites - Ecuries
75010 PARIS (France) -770.64.46"

Verso, middle (typewriter):
"IRAN:
TEHERAN, 14/1/79
ALORS QU'ON ATTEND LE DEPART DU CHAH POUR DES "VACANCES" L'IRAN CONNAIT UNE SITUATION DE DOUBLE POUVOIR: L'AYATOLLAH KHOMEINI S'EST POSE, DEPUIS PARIS, EN CHEF POLITIQUE ET A CONSTITUTE UN "CONCEIL DE LA REVOLUTION ISLAMIQUE"

PHOTOS: ABBAS/GAMMA

DANS LA RUE, C'EST LA FETE: LES MANIFESTANTS ONT FRATERNISE DIMANCHE 14/1/79 AVEC LES SOLIDATS (QUI AFFICHAIENT PARFOIS DES PORTRAITS DE KHOMEINI SUR LEURS VOITURES).

-- DISCOURS DE L'AYATOLLAH T A L E G H A N I

de MATIN D A F T A R I (TOQUE DE FOURRURE)
de KARIM S A N D J A B I, LEADER DU FRONT NATIONAL."
Inscribed Verso, bottom left corner, sideways (pencil); "JA-508"

Recto, bottom middle, (sharpie): line
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