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March 1979 background: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_1979_Iranian_Islamic_Republic_referendum https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_1979_Iranian_Islamic_Rep
by sacrosancty 4y ago
March 1979 background: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_1979_Iranian_Islamic_Republic_referendum https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_1979_Iranian_Islamic_Rep...
Entire recent generations of Iranians are responsible for this. What did they expect when they voted for an Islamic republic? Sunshine lollipops and rainbows?
- the_only_law 4y agoYeah fuck those 20 year olds for not voting on a referendum that happened the year they were born.
- sacrosancty 4y agoThe previous generations who did vote.
- rajman187 4y agoThis is quite a distorted retelling of history. Nobody voted for the IR. There was a very powerful leftist movement (en vogue at the time, thanks in part to the USSR) that sought to remove the pro-west Shah and his perceived corruption. Sure there were grievances, like stifling of any political dissent by the secret police. Ultimately the movement was co-opted by fundamentalists as the leftists had gathered support from various groups but without clear ideas of what would replace the monarchy. And thus Khomeini returned from exile in France to claim the throne, turban rather than crown, and the rest is, as they say, history.