Hundreds of thousands of students, clerics, soldiers and black-clad women holding small children thronged streets across Iran to mark the toppling of the shah – many carrying portraits of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, who died in 1989, and Iran’s current supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei
Main image: Iranians assemble in Tehran’s Azadi (Freedom) Square on 11 February for a ceremony celebrating the 40th anniversary of the Islamic revolution. Photograph: Atta Kenare/AFP/Getty Images
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