Ka cika wannan magana: A shekara ta 1978, wannan hargitsi na siyasa ya zama juyin juya hali na jama'a da ya kai ga kifar da sarauta. Kisan gillar da aka yi a dandalin Jaleh, inda sojojinsa suka kashe kuma suka jikkata masu zanga-zangar da dama;
Wutar Cinema Rex, wani harin ƙona wuta da aka fi yawanci amma ba daidai ba ne a kan SAVAK a Abadan; tsere da tawaye a cikin sojojin; zanga-zangar Muharram na sama da 'yan Iran miliyan 5; da kuma taron shugabannin kasashen yamma da Shah ya ji cewa janye goyon bayansu ne, ya sa matsayinsa a Iran ba zai yiwu ba. Ya bar Iran don gudun hijira a ranar 17 ga Janairu 1979. Duk da yake Shah ya gaya wa abokan zamaninsa a Yammacin cewa zai fi son barin barin mutanensa, sojojinsa sun kashe masu zanga-zangar da ba su da tashin hankali, tare da yawan mutanen da aka kashe a lokacin juyin juya hali daga 2,000 (ƙididdigar Yammacin Turai) zuwa 60,000 (ƙididdigar Jamhuriyar Musulunci ta Iran). Ba da daɗewa ba bayan haka, an soke mulkin mallaka na Iran a hukumance, kuma aka ayyana Iran a matsayin jamhuriyar Islama karkashin Ruhollah Khomeini. Shah ya mutu a gudun hijira a Masar, wanda shugaban kasar, Anwar Sadat, ya ba shi mafaka.