The state-sponsored Rastakhiz Party is dissolved

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 confrontation set in motion Khomeini's departure and eventual move to France.

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.

Border authorities denied him admission, preventing relocation to another neighboring Muslim country.