[nuconvert]

Not quite sure what you're driving at, but the Islamic calendar is a lunar calendar.

On the other hand, the Persian calendar is a solar calendar.

[Pan_Yans Wife]

LOL!

[sully777]

"Not quite sure what you're driving at"

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The photos on FR show a festival environment, accented at times with defiance to the government. Put a few members of the western media in amongst the crowd (with the reporters not knowing/ignoring the religious implication of the assembly) and the media THINKS REVOLUTION, not celebration. It's an illusion, no?

IMO the radical islamists used the various islamic-persian celebration from July 1977 to March 1978 (calibrated to coincide with the lunar calendar) as a vehicle for their alternative political asperations. Had the Shah employed the same controls as the mullahs do today on external and internal media , the world may have been a different place.

IMO most people in 1977 and 1978 were out celebrating in the streets before western cameras, not in a popular uprising against the Shah. Therefore, I wonder if the reports on the FR are results of a popular uprising by the majority, or a celebration accented by a defiance by a minority. I'm sure it is a question in various media outlets and halls of world governments.

I'll wait and see.