Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini is greeted by supporters after arriving at the airport in Tehran, 1 Feb 1979. ©AP/PA Photo
Looking back, Anne Burley, who led Amnesty International’s work on Iran from before the Revolution until the 1980s, described how opponents of the last Shah, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, would come to protest and seek action against human rights violations committed under his rule.
This group included some who no longer gave attention to human rights after the Shah was ousted and the new authorities began to commit grave abuses.
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