Stronger Than a Bullet

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.