The mists allows a rain forest-like ecosystem adjacent to the falls and on the opposite cliff that faces them like a dried-up mirror image, thick with mahogany, fig, palm, and other species of vegetation.
I believe the answer is Gold.
Gold was a very hot commodity at that time because before we use paper/digital money like today, Gold was made as material to make a type of money with more intrinsic value.
The abundance of this natural resources led to many European empire came and started their colonization in AFrica.
Ayatollah Khomeini lead an opposition movement in Iran against Reza Shah Pahlavi to overthrow the authoritarianism type of government that the people disliked and create a new government. The people were fed up with the rule of Pahlavi and they wanted the change. Ayatollah Khomeini took advantage of this mood and returned to his country from exile.
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