1. 11 That the White Revolution was massively acclaimed by referendum in 1973 did not commend it any the more to the clergy.

2. Women were not allowed to vote or be elected to the Parliament until 1963, as part of reforms under the Shah's "White Revolution".

3. Members of the council had spoken in past weeks about their desire for a bloodless, "white" revolution, without a wave of retributive arrests or executions. Such notions now seemed na?ve.