On October 11, 1978, after Khomeini was moved to Neauphle-le-Château outside Paris, France. From the advantages this decision was to keep faraway clerics and Ulama.[45] Citiation in Frances such as some communication facilities and political atmosphere make more efficient relation with people in Iran. In France, because of journalists and the press, Khomeini's speeches were published rapidly in global media.[2] Khomeini wanted to people that continued protests against the government.[46] Between August and December 1978, strikes and demonstrations paralyzed Iran, so that the Shah left the country for exile on 16 January 1979, as the last Persian monarch, leaving his duties to a regency council and an opposition-based prime minister, Shapour Bakhtiar.