Ayatollah Khomeini Returns From Exile

Witness History

BBC

History, Personal Journals, Society & Culture

4.4 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 29 January 2019

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

In February 1979 an Islamic revolution began to unfold in Iran. The Islamic leader Ayatollah Khomeini, who had been in exile for 14 years, flew back to Tehran from Paris on the 1st of February. Mohsen Sazegara was close to the heart of events and in 2011 he spoke to Louise Hidalgo for Witness.

Photo: Ayatollah Khomeini leaving the Air France Boeing 747 jumbo that flew him back from exile in France to Tehran.(Credit: Gabriel Duval, AFP/Getty Images.)

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0:35.4	Sounds.
0:36.4	Just before this BBC podcast gets underway, here's something you may not know.
0:40.9	My name's Linda Davies and I commissioned
0:43.0	podcast for BBC Sounds.
0:45.0	As you'd expect, at the BBC we make podcasts of the very highest quality,
0:49.0	featuring the most knowledgeable experts and genuinely engaging voices.
0:54.4	What you may not know is that the BBC makes podcasts about all kinds of things like pop stars,
1:00.9	poltergeist, cricket, and conspiracy theories.
1:04.4	And that's just a few examples.
1:06.3	If you'd like to discover something a little bit unexpected,
1:09.4	find your next podcast over at BBC Sounds. This is the Witness History
1:13.8	podcast from the BBC World Service and to mark the
1:16.9	anniversary of the Iranian Revolution we are bringing you stories from the
1:20.5	witness archive. Today Louise Hidalgo takes you back to the moment
1:24.5	when the Islamic leader Ayatollah Khomei returned to Iran after many years
1:29.1	spent in exile. It's February 1979. A specially chartered airplane takes off from Paris, bound for
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