Following Imam Khomeini's public denunciation of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi as a "wretched miserable man" and his arrest, on June 5, 1963 (Khordad 15, on the Iranian calendar), three days of major riots erupted throughout Iran with nearly 400 killed.
A yammacin ranar Ashuran ta shekara ta 1383 hijiriyya (3 ga Yunin 1963) Imam ya gabatar da wani jawabi mai cike da tarihi a makarantar Fa'iziyya wanda shi ne matakin farko na yunkurinsa na 15 ga watan Khordad (5 Yuni).