Addressing a meeting of the Supreme Council of the Cultural Revolution, President Hassan Rouhani noted the exile of the late Imam Khomeini on 4 November 1964 as the first stage and the killing of a great number of Iranian youth by Shah's authoritarian regime on 4 Nov. 1978 as the second stage of the movement, adding “the high school and university students have played a decisive role in the country’s political developments and safeguarding the Islamic Revolution's achievements, specially the Sacred Defense.”
