On 13 September 1991, people formed a queue at a newspaper stall in central Tehran, Iran. ITN footage records customers buying papers in turn and identifies the location and date.
When print newspapers carried breaking news, a stall queue made visible what a city wanted to know. Customers sought the same pages while waiting for the person ahead to finish buying. Because the evidence does not establish the inherited revolutionary-period claim, this article is limited to the directly recorded 1991 purchase queue.