At the evening of the 7 January 1978, students of seminary in Qom made hand copies of the article, a cheap and safe method, adding the addendum that the next day a meeting was to be hold at the Khan seminary in protest to the contents of the article. Students protested the next day, on 8 January, and bazaar were closed on 9 January 1978. The 9 January protests turned violent when someone, protestors or provocateurs, threw stone breaking the window of a nearby bank which resulted in the security forces using live ammunition to disperse and attack people.