Street Wisdom and the Call of Battle: Iranian Nationalism After February 28
Media outlets like CNN analyze developments in Iran solely from the perspective of intra-governmental rivalries and attribute every street movement to factions, because such a narrative reduces the public presence to the mobilization of a political faction and ignores the more complex and independent reality of the street.
Memoirs of Seyed Morteza Nabavi:
The Shah’s Flight and the Joy of the Iranian People
One of the happiest days for the people of Tehran and all of Iran was the day the Shah fled. I was on the street in my Gian car when I noticed newspapers with the large headline: “The Shah is Gone”… What you are about to read is part of the memoirs of revolutionary activist Seyed Morteza Nabavi.