Politics

Anthony Albanese invited Isaac Herzog to visit to honor Bondi Beach shooting victims

Groups called on Albanese to withdraw invitation due to Israeli policies in Gaza

Ali Khamenei ranks among world’s oldest and longest-serving heads of state

Women were purged from positions of power and forced to wear hijabs.

Ali Mirsepassi spoke in favor of prolonging a university strike in late 1978.

Rebellion spread through graffiti chants and songs more than top-down orders.

Khomeini sought to replace the monarchy with a religious state ruled by an Islamic jurist.

The Shah appointed a new Prime Minister placed him in charge and took off for Egypt on January 16 1979.

Khomeini insisted there was no difference between music and opium and demanded they eliminate music completely when meeting with state-radio employees.

Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini condemned the abominable festival saying to attend would be to participate in the murder of the oppressed people of Iran

Gary Sick sees it similarly

Carter took five months to select an Ambassador to Iran and another two to get him confirmed

Napoleon decimated the Prussian military ending hope of restoring the Holy Roman Empire the next day

Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi staged an expensive celebration to honor twenty-five hundred years of monarchy in Iran in 1971

Carter had campaigned on human rights which he described as the soul of our foreign policy

The Shah's directives combined the worst of both options soldiers often let demonstrators march but occasionally shot up crowds

The Bolshevik Revolution had been preceded by two smaller revolutions in Russia

Mao Zedong described China as dry tinder awaiting a spark before his own revolution prevailed

Wars and revolutions happen for reasons rooted in economics ideology geography and climate

Any sense that history trends in a general direction is confounded by a large prosperous country becoming a hard-line semi-theocracy