Taken prisoner, General Rahimi says He is in the "Hands of God," Tehran, 1979, Gelatin silver print, Courtesy of Magnum Photos, New York

"Tehran, February 11, 1979 ... Why wasn't I overcome with joy … like all those around me? It was my country, my people, my revolution. Was it because of the constant references to Islam? Or was it because I had seen the face of defeat, that of General Rahimi, the commander of martial law? Two years before I had photographed him in his full imperial uniform with all his medals. That evening he was paraded in front of the television cameras in his shirt. His interrogation … sounded like a trial: 'Do you repent?' 'I swore allegiance to the Shah and I will not renege on it now!' A foreign journalist then asked him if he thought he would be executed. General Rahimi reached to the sky and declared, 'I am in the hands of Allah!' Five days later I photographed him, almost naked, in a box at the Tehran morgue. He had been shot in the night with three other generals following a brief—and secret—trial. From that day the revolution was no longer mine."