A Research on Bloody Saturday of Gorgan in 1978

In this article one aspect of Islamic Revolution, i.e. participation of revolutionary people of counties, is studied. Absolute majority of Iranian nation in different cities and towns took part in the vast struggles against the Pahlavi government and this phenomenon referred to as a “Multi-City” revolution of Iran. This participation was sometimes suppressed by the Shah’s regime agents with harsh suppressing methods and the uprising known as Bloody Saturday of Gorgan or Azar 5th 1357 (26/11/1978) is one of them; the uprising that faced shooting thousands of bullets by the regime agents to suppress a calm vast rally. In this suppression 14 people were martyred and more than 150 were injured and some were arrested. In this article the author has tried to present a firsthand narrative of this important event based on in the city of Gorgan to the readers based on the survived documents from the time of the tyrannical regime of the Shah. Undoubtedly, this event had and important effect on the trend of victory for the Iranian people during the Islamic Revolution and finishing the government of monarchial system in Iran.