Photojournalist David Burnett, having been in Iran for less than 48 hours, uncapped his lens and captured some of the most striking pictures from the 1978-79 Iranian revolution, which would depose Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi--images eerily similar to photos coming out of Iran 40 years later.

The revolution ultimately put into power the very Islamic republic that is now fending off its own street protests--sparked by a questionable election and stoked now, as before, by killings adopted by the protesters as martyrdoms.