The irony was not lost on people who have experienced, witnessed or heard about SAVAK’s torture against political prisoners and ordinary citizens, including women, in the years preceding the revolution.

After the Islamic Revolution in 1979, women were given equal rights to shape their futures. The revolution provided them a chance to build their distinct political identity and they have been tremendously successful in doing that. 

The widely reported protests of the past few weeks in Iran were sparked by the death of a young Kurdish woman, Mahsa Amini, allegedly at the hands of the police.

This episode looks at a series of events that culminated in the overthrow of the Pahlavi regime, bringing about the Islamic Revolution.

A report shows how an MI6 intelligence officer was allowed to spend as much money as he desired to overthrow Iran’s first democratically-elected government in 1953.