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Exactly, I have a hard time seeing how that will ever play out how they want. The whole reason the 1979 revolution happened in the first place was because the
by ifwinterco 8mo ago
Exactly, I have a hard time seeing how that will ever play out how they want.
The whole reason the 1979 revolution happened in the first place was because the Shah was a blatant US/Israeli puppet
- reliabilityguy 8mo agoYou've missed the part where islamist butchered the leaders of the actual 1979 revolution. In reality it was: unpopular shah -> 1979 revolution -> islamists take control, prison and kill the leftists of 1979 revolution.
- ifwinterco 8mo agoThat is true but that’s often how these things go, you pull together a coalition of factions to overthrow the existing elites and then afterwards it devolves into infighting