John Reed
wrote his most famous book about the Russian revolution of 1917 titled “Ten Days That Shook The
World”. In Iranian history, there are ten
days that shook Iran, and subsequently, changed the politics of the world
forever. These ten days are the day Khomeini entered Iran on the first of
February 1979, until 11 February 1979, the day that Shah’s last Prime Minister,
Shahpour Bakhtiar, abdicated his office and left Iran to an exile in France, to
be assassinated by Khomeini’s thugs on August 6, 1991. If Bakhtiar, who was
originally encouraged to accept the position of Prime Minister by the
opposition (in spite of being expelled from his own party), was able to create
a coalition between himself and Khomeini’s regime during those ten days, the
world would have looked differently today!
