While the world seemed in relative balance since the end of the Second World War, history was shaken up in 1979. With Brice Couturier, journalist and essayist, author of 1979, the great change of the worldLa Loupe looks back on four of these major events. In this first episode, we focus on Iran and its Islamic revolution.
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Charlotte Baris: 1979 is therefore a year of changes and new developments. This is when the walkmanon which you can listen Born to be aliveor Michael Jackson’s 1st solo album Off the Wall. A number of cult films were released in 1979, such as Apocalypse Now, Alienwhere the Tanned go skiing.
It is also the year of the death of Mesrine, public enemy number 1… Of John Paul II’s first visit as Pope to his country, Poland, provoking an anti-communist wave… And, more discreetly, it was in 1979 that the first scientific report on the climate was submitted to American President Jimmy Carter. Events that L’Express covered, which appear today in the newspaper’s archives.
Like one of the first covers of the magazine from this year 1979… A man dressed in black, with a turban on his head. His black gaze is surrounded by thick eyebrows, his face appears very hard… His white beard is the only contrast in this photo… The title: Iran, the man who makes the West tremble. This portrait is that of Ayatollah Khomeini, the highest religious authority in Shiite Islam.
In the weekly, around ten pages are devoted to the unrest shaking Iran, of which Khomeini is the leader in exile. A few days after this headline, Ayatollah Khomeini will leave France, heading to Tehran. The country will then change, the Islamic revolution is underway and will shake up the history of the region…
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