Poll: Do you support Amina's goal to prevent anti-women Sharia laws from being adopted in Tunisia?

[MADem]

306. Shah was ill. Things were happening well before he left.

We lived for nearly a year with curfews--you had to be home before dark or the army--which was on every major street and patrolling constantly--would shoot you. They turned off the electricity every night when the BBC world service would broadcast the news. They also jammed the radio signals, though sometimes you could hear what was said if you used headphones and listened very carefully.

The anger at the crackdowns is what caused a lot of people to just want the damn shah gone and people did not think that Khomeini would stay in power. They thought that he would come, kick the shah out, and then go to Qom and be a theological leader, not hand-pick the leaders and murder anyone who got in his way. And he had plenty of followers who were saying just those sorts of things to people who were expressing concerns, as a way to shut them up so they could pull off their coup without too much fuss.