Iran, January 16th, 1979. Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi flees after being overthrown. Ayatollah Khomeini returns to Tehran and proclaims the Islamic Republic on April 1st, 1979. In the same year, Saddam Hussein seizes power in Iraq and, after several border skirmishes, attacks Iran on September 22nd, 1980, initiating a cruel war that will last eight years. Since its outbreak, correspondent Saeid Sadeghi documented it from its beginning to its bitter end.
Keywords:
War correspondent
Iraq
Religious war
Iran
Religious fundamentalism
Photojournalism
Train travel
1980s
Iranian revolution
Traumatized man
Islamic revolution
Iran-iraq war
Sunni islam
Shia islam
Shiism
Sunnism
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Character: Self - War Correspondent