In 1789, a revolution occurred in France. The former King Louis XVI was guillotined on January 21, 1793, and nine months later, Queen Marie Antoinette suffered the same fate. George Jacque Danton, Maximilien Francois Marie Isidore de Robespierre and Jean-Paul Marat - all prominent figures in the revolution - faced the same fate. For more than a decade, until the reign of Napoleon Bonaparte, the French endured terror, fear, and poverty. Almost two centuries later, in 1979, there occurred in the Near East another important revolution - this time in Iran. Mohammad Reza Shah - popularly known as...