Mozaffar Shahedi

Subsequent to the appointment of Assadollah Alam as prime minister in July 1962, and the efforts of the government to carry out the plans known as the White Revolution of the Shah and the Nation, scholars and clerics began a continuous struggle against the Pahlavi regime. Following a referendum held by the government and its seriously implementing the desired reforms (from February 1962), the crisis between scholars and clerics on one hand, and  Assadollah Alam's administration entered a serious phase, and the attack of military and security forces to the  religious school of Feizieh on 22 March 1963, ended in the hostile confrontation of the two parties, and despite the severity of the prime minister and the Shah himself, the opposition were united stronger than before against the reformist plans (so-called White Revolution) and with the beginning of Moharram (June 1342) the crisis was spread expansively