• OVERTHROW OF THE MONARChY SYSTEM AND TRIUMPH OF THE REVOLUTION (THE YAWMULLAH-GOD’S DAY) OF 22ND BAHMAN (FEBRUARY 2ND).
On the 19th of Bahman, 1357, Air Force personnel swore allegiance to the Imam, at his residence (the Alavi school in Tehran). Shah’s army was on the verge of total collapse. Many faithful and religious soldiers and (N.C.O.s) non-corns, had already left their military bases by the decree of Imam Khomeini, and had joined the people’s ranks.
On Bahman the 20th, the “Homafaran” rose up, in the most important air base in Tehran. Royal Guard was cut forth to suppress them. The people entered the arena in support of the revolutionary forces. On the 21st of Bahman, police stations and government centers fell into the hands of the people, one after another. The Tehran Martial Law Commander, extended the carefew hour to begin at 4 P.M. Bakhtiar called a Security Council Meeting, and issued the order of the coup d’etat, arranged by Howzer to take place. Meanwhile, Imam Khomeini, in a message, asked the people of Tehran to dash into the streets, to prevent the conspiracy that was about to take place, and to actually cancel the Martial Law. A flood of men, and women, young and old, poured into the streets and began to build bunkers. The first row of tanks and detachments of motorized brigade were disbandad by the people, as soon as they moved from their bases. The coup d’etat was defeated, as soon as it started. And so, the last stronghold of resistance of the Shah’s Regime was broken up, and at dawn of the 22nd Bahman, the radiating sun of victory of Imam Khomeini’s movement and the Islamic Revolution dawned and the end of the long-standing system of oppressive monarchy was declared.