The 15th of khordad uprising
making the grounds for the victory of the Islamic Revolution

Between the disaster of Fayzieh school and Moharam month (Farvardin 2nd to Khordad 4th of 22) (1963 A.D.) the struggle of Imam against the Shah regime was mostly the kind of issuing several publications. Once Moharam month appeared the situation was one of extensive face up. The Moharam times were ripe for disclosing the regime crimes and Shah's anti-Islamic plans. Savak which knew of the special status of this month before its start called on many of speech-marks and made them not speak against the Shah in gatherings:

1- Not to speak against the Shah
2- Not to say anything against Israel
3- Not to say to the people that Islam is in danger

Imam Khomeini in a meeting with Ghom Ulmas suggested that in Ashura day each of them speak for the people and those mourning the killing of Husain and disclose the oppressing and crimes of the regime. Imam himself also dispute the regimes threat at 4 o'clock of Ashura of 22 which was concurrent with Khordad 13 of that year went to Faizieh School in order to make a speech.
After he talked about the discomforting disasters of Karbala he said that attack made by the Shah forced to Faizieh was similar to Karbala event and thought of that disaster as something that Israel diagnosed and stated that the Shah regime came in to existence by Israel. Also Imam referring to what Savak had asked of the speech-makers wanting them not to blame the Shah and Israel and refuse to say that Islamic in danger stated that: “all of our problems and disagreements are because of these three subjects… if we refuse to say that Islam is in danger then it is not indeed? If we refuse to say that the Shah is like this or that then it is not like this? If we refuse to say that Israel is dangerous for Islam and Muslims then it is not like that? And principles what kind of relationship exists between the Shah and Israel propelling the security organization to say that we should not speak about the Shah and Israel? Is the Shah according to the security organization from Israel?’(Sahifeh-ye Imam, vol. 1, p. 247)
The crushing words and revealing words of Imam downgraded the Shah more than before for the people. Two days before this speech in the morning of Khordad of 15th 1322 due to the Shah's order Imam was captured in his house and was immediately brought to Tehran. First he was first jailed in an individual cell and then was transported to a military base that was fully protected.
After the news of the capturing of Imam in the morning of Khordad of 15th 1322 was cast and it was thus knows that this was due to his historical speech against Israel and the Shah's regime from the first hours of Khordad of 15th extensive protests in Qom, Tehran, Varamin, Mashhad and Shiraz took place which was accompanied why slogans against the Shah and in support of Imam.
Military personals which were stationed in the downtown areas and sensitive areas of Qom and Tehran fired or protestors. People defended themselves using stones and pieces of wood. Protests continued in that day and two days after and thousands of people were killed and injured. The most disastrous event was the massacre of shroud-wearing peasants of Varameen who were going to Tehran in support of Imam. Military personnel on Bagherabad bridge faced then and using heavy arms massacred them.
After the suppression of the uprising Asadollah Alam the prime minister in an interview with the Herald Tribune newspaper in 17th Khordad 22 threatened that Imam and some other Ulmas will be sentenced by the military and may be executed. Also two days later the Shah in a speech said that Imam's statement and people's protests were instigate and funded by foreigners-namely Jamal Abdul Naser because the man at that time due to the Shah? And Israel's cooperation had a violent relationship with him. A few days after the capturing of Imam tens of Iranian Ulmas as a sign of a protest against that and to show their of support of him migrated to Tehran. Due to the Ulmas protest and the pressure exerted by the public opinion finally after Imam was sentenced for two months to a military base was taken to a house in North of Tehran and there he was watched. From the first hours of the day after shop-keepers of Tehran and other cities due to Imam's relative freedom put up a flag on their shops doors while they decorate them with lights and offered them sweets and chocolates.
The Shah imagined that with the suppression of 15th Khordad uprising the capturing of Imam, the weak positioning of some of the Ulmas and most importantly the gossip of the agreement a day after Imam was transported on 12th Mordad newspapers that had the most publications issued a text due to Savak's order to pretend in front of the people that the transporting of Imam from jail to the new place was because of the agreement that was reached by the military chiefs and him. After his full release and his return to Qom in his first opportune occasion in a speech he made rejected firmly this gossip. I has isolated Imam and thus he gradually moved to show that the situation was normal. Hence Asadollah Alam on 17th Esfand 22 was removed from his position by him and he pretended that he was responsible for recent episodes and his removal came following the agreement he reached with Imam.
Following Alam Hasanali Mansour became prime minis in a speech praising Islam he referred to it as one of the most significant and progressive world religions and emphasized the special pities and kindness of the Shah toward the religious ranks. Two days after Mansour's speech Imam without any previous communication on the night of 18th Farvardin 23 (1964 H.D.) entered Qom and was welcomed by the people and the Ulmas. In that day Etelaat newspaper in an article titled Shah's white revolution and America wrote. It is very fortunate that the Ulmas group in its reaction is also now in tune with the rest of the people in implementation of the people and the Shah's revolution's programs. Imam reacting this accusation on Farvardin 215 T in a few word, rejected firmly what Etelaat newspaper had printed and said.
“If they hang Khomeini he will still not deal … I am not that kind of Ulmas who sits here and have in my hand a bead. I am not the people who have a ceremony only a Sundays and in the rest of the time I am a king and let go of other affairs. The basis of Islamic independence is here we should save the nation from these problems.’ (Sahifeh ye-Imam, Vol.1,P.269)

The great leaders says this about the 15th Khordad 1342 uprising: ‘when the 15th Khordad came a bout and those killings and those issues were create. It was not reflected in the world all that much. It did not very much make anyone hopeful and it did not scare anyone all that much. It was a flame. Then they saw that seemingly it has been put out. They neglect that those fire woods and trunks that had fire and were very thick were under these flames … these fires were made until it reached Bahman 22nd and the forming of the Islamic Republic and suddenly a country based on religion and morality was created?