15 Jan 1979, Tehran, Iran — Members of the Armed forces fraternize with protesters during the Iranian Revolution of 1979. A soldier decorates his machine gun with flowers. Iranians, discontented with the ruling of the Shah, began to protest and demonstrate in 1977, culminating in the overthrow of the Shah in February 1979 and the return from exile of the popular Ayatollah Khomeini who declared a new Islamic Republic in 1979. — Image by © Patrick Chauvel/Sygma/Corbis