Khomeini marks the fortieth day after Feyziyeh

He urged mourning rather than celebration to protest the government’s policies and threats against religious institutions.

The Nowruz boycott helped link seminaries, bazaars and households through a shared nonviolent act of protest.

Government agents and security forces assaulted students and clerics at the seminary in Qom, killing and injuring an uncertain number.

Supporters remembered the assault as proof that the monarchy would use violence against independent religious institutions.

Clerics, students and bazaar networks circulated accounts of the attack beyond Qom despite censorship.

Commemoration transformed grief into renewed organization, a pattern that would become central during the revolutionary cycle of 1978.

He compared the Shah’s rule with the tyranny of Yazid and warned that the people would one day celebrate the monarch’s departure.

Khomeini linked the monarchy to American and Israeli influence, presenting political resistance as both national and religious duty.

Large demonstrations used Shi‘i symbols of sacrifice and resistance to express opposition to the Shah.

Commandos seized Khomeini in Qom and transferred him to prison in Tehran after his Ashura speech.