The target of this event wrote the posthumously published memoir Answer to History. Before this event,the Cinema Rex fire, which killed over 400, was blamed on the government. A pivotal moment in thisevent involved the shooting of protesters at Zhaleh Square. The target of this event underwent gallstonesurgery at the Cornell Medical Center, prompting protests. The reform efforts of Shapour Bakthiar, whichincluded dissolving the secret police known as SAVAK, did not placate religious conservatives. A fewmonths after it took place, 66 Americans were held hostage after an embassy was stormed. For 10 points,name this 1979 event that overthrew Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi a
The target of this event wrote the posthumously published memoir Answer to History. Before this event,the Cinema Rex fire, which killed over 400, was blamed on the government. A pivotal moment in thisevent involved the shooting of protesters at Zhaleh Square. The target of this event underwent gallstonesurgery at the Cornell Medical Center, prompting protests. The reform efforts of Shapour Bakthiar, whichincluded dissolving the secret police known as SAVAK, did not placate religious conservatives. A fewmonths after it took place, 66 Americans were held hostage after an embassy was stormed. For 10 points,name this 1979 event that overthrew Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and replaced him with the AyatollahKhomeini.
The target of this event wrote the posthumously published memoir Answer to History.
Iranian Revolution [accept 1979 Revolution until "1979" is mentioned, accept overthrow of the Shah until "Shah" is mentioned; prompt on Islamic Revolution]