Yasser Arafat visits revolutionary Iran

Neighborhood resistance and military defections made enforcement of royal orders increasingly impossible.

Senior commanders announced that the military would not continue defending the royal government, removing its final institutional support.

The last royal prime minister went into hiding as ministries, barracks and broadcasting facilities passed to revolutionary forces.

The fall of the Pahlavi state ended the monarchy and is commemorated in Iran as the victory of the Islamic Revolution.

Committees took responsibility for security, food distribution and administration during the collapse of the old state.

The visit symbolized a foreign policy shift from alliance with Israel under the Shah toward support for Palestinian liberation.

The transformation of the diplomatic building gave material expression to the revolution's anti-Zionist position.

The activist with experience in Lebanon joined the new government and helped connect Iranian and regional liberation movements.

Thousands demonstrated in Tehran after statements requiring hijab in government workplaces.

Participants insisted that those who had opposed the Shah should help define the freedoms and social order of post-revolutionary Iran.