Mourners in Behesht e Zahra, Tehran’s main cemetery during the funerals for those killed in 24 of Esfand Square the day before. December 28, 1978
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Iranian Revolution, Tehran, Iran, 1978 Burnett arrived in Tehran the day after Christmas 1978, unaware of the degree of political unrest around him. Within hours, he was on the streets, in the middle of a gunbattle. “Every burial became a political event,” he notes, “where the shah and the U.S. were railed against.”
