EDITOR’S NOTE: On Feb. 11, 1979, after days of running street battles and uncertainty, Iran’s military stood down and allowed the Islamic Revolution to sweep across the country. Now, 40 years later, The Associated Press is making its story and historic photographs of Iran’s Islamic Revolution available. Khomeini’s followers took over Tehran Radio and issued a series of directives from the Provisional Revolutionary Government. Tehran Radio said Jay Barracks, one of Iran’s largest bank garrisons, was in flames. “The commanders of the armed forces held meeting at 10:20 this morning and decided in order to prevent chaos and further bloodshed to declare the armed forces’ neutrality and therefore the units of the army were ordered to return to their barracks.”The 430,000-man armed forces had been the Bakhtiar government’s major source of support.

Source: National Post February 11, 2019 06:11 UTC