Those are images of people living a western style of life in a secular country. It's not a free country though. The Iran of 1978 was a fascist police state that

Those are images of people living a western style of life in a secular country. It's not a free country though. The Iran of 1978 was a fascist police state that aribitrarily arrested and tortured people (like Assads Syria) [1]. It's convenient and has become somehow a tumblr fashion to do this simplistic comparison ("proof by gif"), but the reality was much different and the revolution against it, although it brought another form of oppression and religious dictatorship, was supported by many Iranians. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran#Late_modern_period https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran#Late_modern_period