Pressure in Iraq prepares a new phase of exile

For many Iranians, the killings demonstrated that the monarchy relied on armed violence and could not be reformed.

Mourning, testimony and political organizing carried the memory of Jaleh Square throughout the country.

Under pressure amid the Iranian crisis, Iraq restricted his political activity in Najaf.

He rejected conditions that would have limited messages supporting the revolutionary movement inside Iran.

Visitors, recordings and statements had connected Khomeini's exile residence to activists across Iran.

The one-party institution created by the Shah in 1975 collapsed under revolutionary pressure.

Ending Rastakhiz acknowledged the failure of an organization designed to absorb all legal political activity.

Officials and local elites tied to Rastakhiz could no longer present it as a channel for popular participation.

Dissolution did not satisfy a movement increasingly committed to ending monarchical rule.

After nearly thirteen years in Iraq, he left when authorities made continued political activity impossible.