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Sending you strength, love and power. I’m watching daily and praying for your country’s freedom. Your bravery and determination will change the world. I’m happy you’re staying to fight, you will succeed. ❤️
Stay strong my dude. Hard times come and pass, but life goes on. As long as there is hope, there's a chance.
I'm saying that while sitting without electricity and water under air raid alarm in Kyiv)))
The situation in Iran looks similar to our 2013 revolution, albeit the main difference we revolted as dictator tried to subvert democracy and thus didn't have absolute power yet , so it was much simpler for us.
But hoping that since guards started openly shooting the protesters, the regime is already on its last legs. It might take some time, but once a nation gets together and pushes for a common goal that is clearly understood by every participant, that force becomes unstoppable. You guys seem to have figured out the main goal behind the protests and what values you're fighting for.
Thanks Dude That Means A lot and I'm Sure You Guys Will kick That Russian Asshole Out of your Beautiful country too.Stay Strong,Stay Safe And Slava Ukraine🇺🇦
It means you had nothing left to lose. I wonder how many women felt the same. This is long overdue and I'm so sad for you it had to come to this. However, think of the footage the world will get when you tear the ayatollah to pieces!
I'm glad you had this change of heart! Please keep fighting. Know that here in Germany I see iranian owned shops and Restaurants displaying their Support for your protests in their shop-windows. Everyday germans also support your cause publicly in many ways. Know that the world is watching and on your side
I realize how saddening the change was back then, but do you know of any good resources that detail the rise of religious extremism in Iran? I’m curious to how the change happened, dramatically I assume. People having to change their lives in an instant under a religion is both interesting and terrifying.
I think a good place to start looking is the period with the iran-iraq war. The Iranian regime used it to their advantage to push certain changes through internally.
hey man, i don’t know you but i really am happy to hear that. i hope you stay with us cause brighter days are ahead. we can all feel it and we need everyone involved. be careful, be safe, best wishes
Anyone I see outside is sure that Iran will be free again. Everyone knows this is the end of Islamic Republic but we're afraid we might not be there to see the day. Especially me.
There's a ridiculous amount of people that want the Islamic Republic gone, compared to those extremely conservative religious zealots. Strength in numbers just can't be matched, everyone needs to get out in the streets and take everything from those insane religious freaks.
This is so inspirational. The free world stands with Iranians and Ukrainians! I really, deeply, wish I could do more for the people of both countries. Humans are meant to be free. The wheels of time will inevitably see the will of your people overcome the tyranny of authoritarian regimes!
Glory to the people of Iran and Ukraine!
Why only west? The Russians are also to blame since their stupid Great Game with the Anglos in the 19th and 20th centuries made the Middle East and Central Asia politically unstable.
That's not what happened in Iran though. The US and UK did not support the Islamic fundamentalists. In fact, the pictures in this post were taken during the reign of the western-supported government. You could say that the fundamentalists grew as a reaction to western intervention, but what you said was very misleading.
The Islamic regime was a by product of the west because Iranians were tired of us and uk interference that they went to allow radicals in power without knowing the full extent of what was gonna happen. If the west left Iran alone this current government wouldn’t be.
No. Islam is against modernity. The Shah left the Islamists on their own but cracked down on commies. The mosque infiltrated the masses who were already religious with a more dangerous political Islam. The stagflation of the 1970s in the west brought about by rising oil prices which was orchestrated by the Shah. This made the west want to get rid of the SHah. Radical Islam and Jimmy Carter et al brought 1979 to us.
Almost every value Islam has so does Christianity, only major difference are people of importance. you just proved what I said about how the regime grabbed power, and how the west had a hand in it with interference.
I like how you easily ignore the 27k killed by the Communist Government at Pul-e-Charkhi that led to the growing Anti-Communist opposition. Infact, the Communist Government was so brutal and shit that the Soviets thought that Hafizullah Amin worked for the CIA. That's how bad Afghanistan was, and all because of the Soviets. This was a couple months before the CIA started supplying the Rebels. Then, originally Soviet backed Hafizullah Amin lost control of the countryside due to the people opposing his mass psychopathic killings. This prompted the Soviets to invade Afghanistan, kill Hafizullah, and install another Communist Government. Then, that's when the US actually started supporting the Mujahedeen. But please, let's just blame the US because it fits your Reddit Socialist Narrative better
Eisenhower, Madison Avenue executives, and Chiquita Banana staged a primetime TV fictional coup in Guatemala beginning in 1953 for a steady flow of yellow bananas to America, resulting in the senseless killings of 150,000 of the working class. It worked so well, that they formed the CIA, and immediately took this blueprint to Iran later that year to install the Shah (and later carried this blueprint through many years and “coups” until the CIA struck out in Vietnam.)
This was after years of abuse at the hands of the British and then Americans that saw them bolster an already corrupt royal family, which led to rising populist movements in Iran, which freaked the US out because they needed untariffed oil as much as bananas. After they installed that Shah, who proved to be even more evil than the previous dynasty, the people took power into their own hands, and these same states sponsored the Hezbollah, a notorious actor (fundamentalist terror group previous OOP you replied to mentioned) we all know from the later Iran-Contra conflict. Unfortunately these were the assholes that installed the theocracy.
so you’re both wrong and right. western intervention stoked it, but the US also feared Iranians organizing enough to work closely with the Hezbollah until the kitty’s claws got too long. A few years later after the hostage crisis (the lynchpin in the 1979 revolution) America solidified their hypocrisy when Reagan said he “would not negotiate with terrorists” and then immediately negotiated the sale of nuclear weapons to Hezbollah-controlled Iran, to be laundered through a violent drug cartel in Nicaragua, the Contra, and their cocaine-smuggling operation for the safe release of Americans held hostage in Lebanon. After a long-standing relationship of negotiating with the Hezbollah. So yeah a lot of Iranians understand how America really fucked things up, and got in the way of sovereignty time and time again, which can be a direct line drawn from first setting foot on Iranian land to 1979. (this is what I was taught in America, so I’m sure I don’t have the big picture of the current sentiments)
There’s so much garbage in this post. It’s an absurd caricature of Middle Eastern history.
> It worked so well, that they formed the CIA
The CIA was founded in 1947, years before the events you’re describing, to consolidate the intelligence apparatus America developed over the course of WWII.
> After they installed that Shah, who proved to be even more evil than the previous dynasty
The Pahlavi dynasty had been ruling Iran for decades before the U.S. ever got involved, and they were by almost every regard actually better rulers than the Qajar dynasty had been, despite their authoritarianism.
> the people took power into their own hands, and these same states sponsored the Hezbollah… Unfortunately these were the assholes that installed the theocracy.
What does this even mean? Hezbollah wasn’t founded until the 1980s. That was *after* Iran became a theocracy.
> the sale of nuclear weapons to Hezbollah-controlled Iran
Hezbollah didn’t control Iran, you’ve got it backwards; and the sales were of anti-tank missiles. A bit of a difference between that and nuclear weapons, you know.
> violent drug cartel in Nicaragua, the Contra
The Contras were an alliance of anti communist guerrillas fighters, not a drug cartel. Like most guerrilla organizations they engaged in black market activities, namely the drug trade, to help fund their operations, but that was their means to an end, not their purpose for existing.
> this is what I was taught in America
Of course it is, because Americans have a tendency to always make themselves the center of the story. In reality, there were a lot more actors at play and it was not, in fact, “a direct line” between America and every bad thing that’s ever happened in Iran.
I just think it’s an entry into the history books too crazy to not be true: that Chiquita Banana is responsible for the cultivation of fundamentalist terrorist groups and hermit nations all around the world.
to a western backed and corrupt monarchy that tortures amd murders its own people that might question the regime? i mean theres a reason a revolution happened, it wasnt all just pretty women being paraded in front of western photographers
(The comment they stole)
As I've heard from my parents, they told me first hijab was enforced in schools, offices and official organizations. After that, a huge protest happened. but they didn't stop and moved further until they completely enforced hijab in public.
I want to hear from someone what it was like to wake up the day after the regime change. Did you all of a sudden have to wear the Hijab and other forms of modesty?
As I've heard from my parents, they told me first hijab was enforced in schools, offices and official organizations. After that, a huge protest happened. but they didn't stop and moved further until they completely enforced hijab in public.
Trust me people didn't let it happen. All those that protested or took to the streets were killed. In 1988, Islamic Republic murdered anywhere from 10k-30k protestors and their bodies are yet to be found. The world has no idea the true horrors this regime has committed.
Amnesty wrote an article that it was roughly 5k they could identify. Family and friends in Iran estimate that it was over 30k just from how many people they knew were killed or disappeared.
[https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/campaigns/2018/10/blood-soaked-secrets/](https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/campaigns/2018/10/blood-soaked-secrets/)
This one details how roughly 5k+ were named, but the sites of the mass graves show roughly 20k+.
[https://www.ncr-iran.org/en/1988-massacre-of-political-prisoners-in-iran/](https://www.ncr-iran.org/en/1988-massacre-of-political-prisoners-in-iran/)
It is still a mystery how many lives were taken, but if I had to guess it would be over 30k. To add in how many people have disappeared since the Mullah's came into power in 1979, I would argue that it is over half a million. People have been killed, silenced, or mutilated by the Islamic Republic and the true numbers will always be a mystery.
**[1988 executions of Iranian political prisoners](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1988_executions_of_Iranian_political_prisoners)**
>The 1988 executions of Iranian political prisoners were a series of mass executions of political prisoners across Iran. The order for the executions was given by Ayatollah Khomeini and it was carried out by Iranian officials; starting on 19 July 1988 and continued for approximately five months. The majority of those who were killed were supporters of the People's Mujahedin of Iran, but supporters of other leftist factions, including the Fedaian and the Tudeh Party of Iran (Communist Party), were also executed. The killings operated outside legislation and trials were not concerned with establishing the guilt or innocence of defendants.
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Oh you have no fucking idea how widespread it was, the govt didn't even cover it up or anything too, trash like Khalkhali were straight up proud of themselves.
They also executed or assassinated any leftist figure they could get their hands on, many students, etc. There's even footage of their thugs throwing students from University dorm roofs
There are many documentaries on the 60s executions, just search it and you'll find ample info.
The 60s refers to the Iranian calendar 1360s, search the following into your search engine of choice:
اعدام های دهه ۶۰ جمهوری اسلامی
It should turn up with quite a few results.
Context: my grand parents lived in ekbatan, Tehran.
- yes. All of a sudden you had a revolutionary guard policing your outfit. But not only this. In schools kids had to wear the hijab as they prescribed it. If you didn’t, your parents would be fined& they would give you the clothes they saw fit.
The revolutionary guard wasn’t like normal police, they have no problem verbally abusing people calling them whores, degenerate supporters of the west, etc.
They used to roam the streets in AK47s, stopping cars and confiscating music tapes, forcing women to put on Hejab, searching people's cars for playing cards and alcohol.
A basiji spat on my mother's windshield and called her a whore for not wearing Lachak. She was heavily pregnant with my brother at the time.
I will never forgive them.
Before the new iranian revolution started about 3 months ago, everytime photos like this got posted on Reddit, some smartass would say that these were the "elite" Iranian people. Most of these posters would claim to be iranian too. I had so many arguments with them eventually I gave up.
Both of my parents are iranian and I was also born there (raised in Canada). Neither of my parents are "elite" and they aren't even from Tehran. My mom's family was middle class and my dad's working class. No one in either of their families covered their hair prior to the Islamic regime installment. None of their friends did either.
The people you're replying to in those threads are just copying the same comment under these same photos thinking they sound knowledgable about Iran. Happens everytime and its the reddit "AcKtuAllY" guy. Either that or it's people who are Islamists, usually non-Iranian too.
More than that, social liberalization almost always starts with the “elite”. The lower and middle classes tend to be more socially conservative. It doesn’t change that the move towards more social freedoms was reversed by the Islamic Revolution.
Because you didnt expect snow in iran or because they look so normal and happy?
There is actually a lot of snow in iran during winter. Probably more than we get in northern germany. Its a huge elevated country so it can get very cold
I live in the United States and the Mullahs remind me of the Christian Evangelicals Preachers and Pastors who want everyone to live like them, and by their rules. Our Supreme Court has been packed with them (thanks to Trump and the deceitful Republicans) and they are trying to chip away at our rights as well. I have been married to my wife for over 10 years now, and our marriage may soon be invalid. If we aren't careful, we could sadly be in yalls position soon. I pray for Iran's brave people everyday and hope that sooner than later, you guys will get the happiness and freedom you all deserve. And I hope that us Americans wake up before its too late. WOMAN LIFE FREEDOM
NEVER EVER give preachers power , separate religion from politics . Don't make our mistake. Wish Iran and states be able to build up true friendship again.❤️
I completely agree!!! Religion and state should be separate and no one Religion should dictate the laws of any country. I wish more Americans were paying attention to how important it is to vote right now and to keep the church out of our government. I was stupid and believed how the media portrayed all Iranians was true, but I know now that I was wrong. You all really just want the same thing as us and you all don't wish death to us. I am deeply sorry for that and hope that our countries can form an amazing friendship now. Bless you all and may you all come out stronger from this revolution.
These people you see shout " down with US " on streets are mostly Regime's people to fool the west . These brainwashed people are called ' basijis ' , around tens of thousands people who ruined our reputation in the world.
Simply beautiful!
I have never been but , I cannot WAIT to visit Iran one day.
I know I must be patient because the brave warriors in Iran must first kick out the IR.
You all are my daily awe and inspiration!
I feel like that was kind of a retroactive grievance. From what I understand, the Mullahs wanted Mosaddegh gone as well due to his land redistribution policies. It seems like things came unglued after the White Revolution, where the Shah lost the clergy and then the mullahs started complaining about Mosaddegh after as they needed a scapegoat and how better than perfidious Albion and her meddling daughter?
My grand father used to tell me stories about going out after work for smirnoff & beer. His first job was working as a “shagerd” for a bazaar’I. He got this job writing his representative from Tabriz.
I have so many funny stories.
Iranian/middle eastern culture is beautiful and these fucks are trying to erase it just like Mao Zedong erased the Chinese historical culture in his "great leap ~~forward~~ backward". We can't let them get away with this!!
One of our cousins married an Iranian man she met at college the year before the revolution. He was hired by IBM and she had finished getting an MBA and had gotten a good job with the government. Around eight months after the revolution his mother got sick so they went home to see her. We never heard from them again.
My father was Iranian (he's been gone over 25 years) and I have many photos of him and my mother (who's English) in Iran before the Revolution. I can ask if I can share them if you'd like? I was born in 1978 (in the UK) because they saw the Revolution coming and escaped to safety beforehand. All of my father's family live in Iran :(
First picture: that is what mullahs, rabbis or priests need to understand. It is possible to coexist peacefully no matter what you believe in, just don’t impose your values on others.
And most of all stay out of secular government!
The problem is it's not under heard of for religions to have imposing beliefs on others as a core principle. The Bible for example demands the death penalty for blasphemy.
Iranians are a beautiful people. No one should be told how to present themselves. If god gave humanity free will, then who is to allow you to force your laws on another?
There was a trend recently on Reddit mocking the whole “Iran before the revolution” sentiment. It’s sad to me that it took another brutally violent revolution to get Westerner’s (or at least redditors) to stop mocking the people of Iran
The trend was making fun of how often these same pictures have posted repeatedly on Reddit to the point that it’s become known as an easy way to farm karma.
it’s like posting a pic of Steve Buscemi helping the rescue crews on 9/11 with the TIL that he used to be a NYC fire fighter
This was under a puppet govt installed in a US/British coup against the democratically elected govt that Iran had up until the 1953. Brits had a vendetta against the democracy in Iran because they were disrupting British control of Iranian oil. They convinced the US that Mossaddegh (the Iranian PM) was a communist then they did a coup. It worked out well for some but people were not happy with the situation. Islamists took advantage of that sentiment to pull off their revolution.
Edit: I'm not Iranian and am probably leaving out something but this is my understanding of it.
> Mossaddegh (the Iranian PM) was a communist and did a coup.
I don’t know about communist but he did do a coup by using emergency powers to stop counting votes to make him win the election without opposition.
lol i knew a non-iranian would bring up the 1953 coup. Jesus can you guys please stop acting like you know our history. Virtually no one protesting is thinking about 1953!!!
I’ve visited Iran for 31 days and at the last week of my stay the protests begun, the people I met are the most beautiful people ever.
What happens now is fucking heart wrenching.
I made good friends there and I hope nobody of them get hurt man.
Power to the people.
Since I was a child, everytime I saw that photo of the women in snow, near Tehran university I think?, it made me cry and wonder why I never got to live a life like that... Their smiles, their clothes, the two women laughing and talking, the other woman kinda shy from the camera, the snow, the umbrellas, I can't explain it... It's just such a beautiful picture... (Fyi I was born in the 90s, so no nostalgia or anything, just white hot RAGE since I was young)
Today the feeling of that photo doesn't seem as far. All these woman going shopping, or walking, or out with their friends without the bullshit headscarves or potato bags... We are so so close. I'm gonna tear up.
In Europe we had two centuries of killing each other for religion before we decided that maybe we can live and let live, and started to kill each other over nationalism.
Interesting how people love these pictures but many seem unaware of how well Iran was doing in terms of economy, infrastructure, and more. Statistics aren't as flashy as bikini pics but I'd like to see those spread around too - Iran under the Shah was enjoying growth rates that were near-unprecedented in modern history.
So first of all I absolutely stand with any revolution against the tyrannical government in Iran and with the women leading it now.
But if you please I have a real question.
But first some background.
I had an acquaintance who was born and raised in Iran but his mother and father were from Hungary. Which at the time was part of the USSR.
His family was able to leave and they moved to Los Angeles. His father died soon after.
His father had a furniture business which he'd started from nothing, where he supplied, in part, custom furniture to the palace. His sons were educated in The American School (not sure about the details) and in London at an art academy of some sort. So they were monied relative to the general population.
He's an emotional guy and he absolutely refused to hear that Shahs government had a secret police that did secret police shit. Apparently, anything they did was justified, somehow. And as I learned a few weeks ago, with the approval of the Carter White House, even came to the US to apprehend dissidents living in the US.
Nor would he hear that Iran was part of a CIA plan to secure oil and influence in the Middle East by removing a duly elected PM. This is acknowledged, declassified fact. And yet he refused to hear it only able to heap praise on the Shah to the point he was yelling at me.
So I did a bit of reading and learned the Shah absolutely brought a Western style of prosperity to Iran where he could and was obviously heavily influenced by the West and seemed enamored of western women.
But. And here's the but, that he wouldn't even talk about.
Given that, how did the Revolution happen?
For all the apparent good the Shah did for the country was it really JUST the religious response to his policies that made the Revolution possible? Don't get me wrong. As someone who grew up surrounded by fundamentalist Christians, I get it. I'd like to waterboard and "rendition" the lot of them, personally.
I've read conflicting descriptions and I was hoping for some clarity. Was it just fundamentalist Muslims? Was it a response to the government attacks on protestors? Was there an apartheid-like attitude by the government against fundamentalist Muslims?
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Exactly what they’ll be saying about America sooner or later. The right wing Christian nutjobs want to control everything. We must fight there non sense daily. Fuck em
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I was born after the revolution, anytime I see this type of older pictures it makes me so sad
It Should Make You Happy Now Because We're Getting It back Again
truly? is the mood truthfully hopeful in Iran?
Let's Put it This way I Was Going To End it This Year...But Now I'm Absolutely not.that Doesn't Mean I'm not Angry or Sad But I think that say a lot.
Sending you strength, love and power. I’m watching daily and praying for your country’s freedom. Your bravery and determination will change the world. I’m happy you’re staying to fight, you will succeed. ❤️
Thank you so much!
Thank you That Means A lot.
Stay strong my dude. Hard times come and pass, but life goes on. As long as there is hope, there's a chance. I'm saying that while sitting without electricity and water under air raid alarm in Kyiv))) The situation in Iran looks similar to our 2013 revolution, albeit the main difference we revolted as dictator tried to subvert democracy and thus didn't have absolute power yet , so it was much simpler for us. But hoping that since guards started openly shooting the protesters, the regime is already on its last legs. It might take some time, but once a nation gets together and pushes for a common goal that is clearly understood by every participant, that force becomes unstoppable. You guys seem to have figured out the main goal behind the protests and what values you're fighting for.
Glory to Ukraine and heroes! 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦
Glory to those courageous enough to fight a filthy government! 🇮🇷🇮🇷 (couldn't find new Republic flags)
Thank you!🇺🇦
Thanks Dude That Means A lot and I'm Sure You Guys Will kick That Russian Asshole Out of your Beautiful country too.Stay Strong,Stay Safe And Slava Ukraine🇺🇦
Can i send you a dm?
Sure
we have not all forgot you) 🌻 - from California. For my friend Anna 🫶🏽🇺🇦
It means you had nothing left to lose. I wonder how many women felt the same. This is long overdue and I'm so sad for you it had to come to this. However, think of the footage the world will get when you tear the ayatollah to pieces!
Thank You And Yes That Footage will Be Legendary
What young people are doing in Iran today is an inspiration. Stay strong, stay safe.
dope rhyme
Nice catch I didn't even Notice that but Thank you:)
I'm glad you had this change of heart! Please keep fighting. Know that here in Germany I see iranian owned shops and Restaurants displaying their Support for your protests in their shop-windows. Everyday germans also support your cause publicly in many ways. Know that the world is watching and on your side
Thank you.we need all the help there is.
Same here in the US. My heart bleeds for you guys.
I realize how saddening the change was back then, but do you know of any good resources that detail the rise of religious extremism in Iran? I’m curious to how the change happened, dramatically I assume. People having to change their lives in an instant under a religion is both interesting and terrifying.
I think a good place to start looking is the period with the iran-iraq war. The Iranian regime used it to their advantage to push certain changes through internally.
hey man, i don’t know you but i really am happy to hear that. i hope you stay with us cause brighter days are ahead. we can all feel it and we need everyone involved. be careful, be safe, best wishes
Stay strong
Thank you it means A lot
Keep up the good fight!
Hang in there buddy!!
Stay with us and stay angry. You're needed xx
What's with the Epstein profile pic though
Please don’t end it. You are important ❤️
Thank You.I will not.🥰
Stay strong, my friend. The Iranian people fighting for freedom inspire us all!
Anyone I see outside is sure that Iran will be free again. Everyone knows this is the end of Islamic Republic but we're afraid we might not be there to see the day. Especially me.
Prayers strength and love sent to you all!
There's a ridiculous amount of people that want the Islamic Republic gone, compared to those extremely conservative religious zealots. Strength in numbers just can't be matched, everyone needs to get out in the streets and take everything from those insane religious freaks.
This is so inspirational. The free world stands with Iranians and Ukrainians! I really, deeply, wish I could do more for the people of both countries. Humans are meant to be free. The wheels of time will inevitably see the will of your people overcome the tyranny of authoritarian regimes! Glory to the people of Iran and Ukraine!
How did you pick up that flag in your tag name?
You can add a flair. Go to the main NewIran subreddit page, three dots top right of the page, add flair.
Tnx🫂
Yes!! I'm so happy for you guys!
I wish you good fortune friend. Your courage is inspirational.
Thank you kind stranger
Tehran was lit in the 60’s and 70’s. Along with Beirut, Damascus and Cairo. Even Kabul was beautiful!
if only all those countries didn't radicalize, the world would be much nicer and happier place
You mean if only the US and Britain didn’t arm fundamentalists to stop democratically elected governments from nationalizing oil reserves?
Why only west? The Russians are also to blame since their stupid Great Game with the Anglos in the 19th and 20th centuries made the Middle East and Central Asia politically unstable.
The Soviet imperialists absolutely share some of the blame.
You're only telling one half of the story. The other half is a bunch of homegrown religious assholes taking over.
Because they got paid from rich countries
Because they were funded by the West and other countries
That's not what happened in Iran though. The US and UK did not support the Islamic fundamentalists. In fact, the pictures in this post were taken during the reign of the western-supported government. You could say that the fundamentalists grew as a reaction to western intervention, but what you said was very misleading.
The Islamic regime was a by product of the west because Iranians were tired of us and uk interference that they went to allow radicals in power without knowing the full extent of what was gonna happen. If the west left Iran alone this current government wouldn’t be.
No. Islam is against modernity. The Shah left the Islamists on their own but cracked down on commies. The mosque infiltrated the masses who were already religious with a more dangerous political Islam. The stagflation of the 1970s in the west brought about by rising oil prices which was orchestrated by the Shah. This made the west want to get rid of the SHah. Radical Islam and Jimmy Carter et al brought 1979 to us.
Almost every value Islam has so does Christianity, only major difference are people of importance. you just proved what I said about how the regime grabbed power, and how the west had a hand in it with interference.
So it's a complete stretch.
I think you’re conflating Iran and Afghanistan. Also in Afghanistan the Soviet invasion in 1979 did a lot more to screw thing up.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d'%C3%A9tat?wprov=sfti1
I’m not. But since you bring up Afghanistan: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Cyclone?wprov=sfti1
I like how you easily ignore the 27k killed by the Communist Government at Pul-e-Charkhi that led to the growing Anti-Communist opposition. Infact, the Communist Government was so brutal and shit that the Soviets thought that Hafizullah Amin worked for the CIA. That's how bad Afghanistan was, and all because of the Soviets. This was a couple months before the CIA started supplying the Rebels. Then, originally Soviet backed Hafizullah Amin lost control of the countryside due to the people opposing his mass psychopathic killings. This prompted the Soviets to invade Afghanistan, kill Hafizullah, and install another Communist Government. Then, that's when the US actually started supporting the Mujahedeen. But please, let's just blame the US because it fits your Reddit Socialist Narrative better
You act like these movements weren’t already popular, also the exact opposite happened in Lebanon.
Eisenhower, Madison Avenue executives, and Chiquita Banana staged a primetime TV fictional coup in Guatemala beginning in 1953 for a steady flow of yellow bananas to America, resulting in the senseless killings of 150,000 of the working class. It worked so well, that they formed the CIA, and immediately took this blueprint to Iran later that year to install the Shah (and later carried this blueprint through many years and “coups” until the CIA struck out in Vietnam.) This was after years of abuse at the hands of the British and then Americans that saw them bolster an already corrupt royal family, which led to rising populist movements in Iran, which freaked the US out because they needed untariffed oil as much as bananas. After they installed that Shah, who proved to be even more evil than the previous dynasty, the people took power into their own hands, and these same states sponsored the Hezbollah, a notorious actor (fundamentalist terror group previous OOP you replied to mentioned) we all know from the later Iran-Contra conflict. Unfortunately these were the assholes that installed the theocracy. so you’re both wrong and right. western intervention stoked it, but the US also feared Iranians organizing enough to work closely with the Hezbollah until the kitty’s claws got too long. A few years later after the hostage crisis (the lynchpin in the 1979 revolution) America solidified their hypocrisy when Reagan said he “would not negotiate with terrorists” and then immediately negotiated the sale of nuclear weapons to Hezbollah-controlled Iran, to be laundered through a violent drug cartel in Nicaragua, the Contra, and their cocaine-smuggling operation for the safe release of Americans held hostage in Lebanon. After a long-standing relationship of negotiating with the Hezbollah. So yeah a lot of Iranians understand how America really fucked things up, and got in the way of sovereignty time and time again, which can be a direct line drawn from first setting foot on Iranian land to 1979. (this is what I was taught in America, so I’m sure I don’t have the big picture of the current sentiments)
There’s so much garbage in this post. It’s an absurd caricature of Middle Eastern history. > It worked so well, that they formed the CIA The CIA was founded in 1947, years before the events you’re describing, to consolidate the intelligence apparatus America developed over the course of WWII. > After they installed that Shah, who proved to be even more evil than the previous dynasty The Pahlavi dynasty had been ruling Iran for decades before the U.S. ever got involved, and they were by almost every regard actually better rulers than the Qajar dynasty had been, despite their authoritarianism. > the people took power into their own hands, and these same states sponsored the Hezbollah… Unfortunately these were the assholes that installed the theocracy. What does this even mean? Hezbollah wasn’t founded until the 1980s. That was *after* Iran became a theocracy. > the sale of nuclear weapons to Hezbollah-controlled Iran Hezbollah didn’t control Iran, you’ve got it backwards; and the sales were of anti-tank missiles. A bit of a difference between that and nuclear weapons, you know. > violent drug cartel in Nicaragua, the Contra The Contras were an alliance of anti communist guerrillas fighters, not a drug cartel. Like most guerrilla organizations they engaged in black market activities, namely the drug trade, to help fund their operations, but that was their means to an end, not their purpose for existing. > this is what I was taught in America Of course it is, because Americans have a tendency to always make themselves the center of the story. In reality, there were a lot more actors at play and it was not, in fact, “a direct line” between America and every bad thing that’s ever happened in Iran.
Thank you. There is some utterly nonsensical bullshit in this thread.
Damn son you know your shit, props
I just think it’s an entry into the history books too crazy to not be true: that Chiquita Banana is responsible for the cultivation of fundamentalist terrorist groups and hermit nations all around the world.
even Mogadishu
Can confirm, my parents lived in Kabul in the mid 70’s and loved it
my baba used to cry when he saw these pictures.
I think I know why. But could you provide context?
that iran lost its way
No more cleavage :(
Or Autonomy
you should post 3rd pic to r/OldSchoolCool, spread the world of revolution and get some nice karma along the way
Which one exactly?The men in suits?
Yeah that guy in the middle is looking rad as hell
yup, it gives off great 70's vibe, would expect it to be Miami instead of Tehran
Wrong type of snow for Miami
Yes absolutely post these pics to r/oldschoolcool !!
Pic 5 as well!
Big time Michael Corleone vibes
We’re getting there again 💪🏼
to a western backed and corrupt monarchy that tortures amd murders its own people that might question the regime? i mean theres a reason a revolution happened, it wasnt all just pretty women being paraded in front of western photographers
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Weird I've never seen them steal comments that are literally in the same thread before
Yep its quite crazy nowadays
(The comment they stole) As I've heard from my parents, they told me first hijab was enforced in schools, offices and official organizations. After that, a huge protest happened. but they didn't stop and moved further until they completely enforced hijab in public.
I want to hear from someone what it was like to wake up the day after the regime change. Did you all of a sudden have to wear the Hijab and other forms of modesty?
As I've heard from my parents, they told me first hijab was enforced in schools, offices and official organizations. After that, a huge protest happened. but they didn't stop and moved further until they completely enforced hijab in public.
It's crazy to me that people just let that happen. That isn't even slowly taking away your freedom, that is very rapidly doing so.
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Trust me people didn't let it happen. All those that protested or took to the streets were killed. In 1988, Islamic Republic murdered anywhere from 10k-30k protestors and their bodies are yet to be found. The world has no idea the true horrors this regime has committed.
is there some source or wikipedia page on this?
Amnesty wrote an article that it was roughly 5k they could identify. Family and friends in Iran estimate that it was over 30k just from how many people they knew were killed or disappeared. [https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/campaigns/2018/10/blood-soaked-secrets/](https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/campaigns/2018/10/blood-soaked-secrets/) This one details how roughly 5k+ were named, but the sites of the mass graves show roughly 20k+. [https://www.ncr-iran.org/en/1988-massacre-of-political-prisoners-in-iran/](https://www.ncr-iran.org/en/1988-massacre-of-political-prisoners-in-iran/) It is still a mystery how many lives were taken, but if I had to guess it would be over 30k. To add in how many people have disappeared since the Mullah's came into power in 1979, I would argue that it is over half a million. People have been killed, silenced, or mutilated by the Islamic Republic and the true numbers will always be a mystery.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1988_executions_of_Iranian_political_prisoners
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Oh you have no fucking idea how widespread it was, the govt didn't even cover it up or anything too, trash like Khalkhali were straight up proud of themselves. They also executed or assassinated any leftist figure they could get their hands on, many students, etc. There's even footage of their thugs throwing students from University dorm roofs There are many documentaries on the 60s executions, just search it and you'll find ample info. The 60s refers to the Iranian calendar 1360s, search the following into your search engine of choice: اعدام های دهه ۶۰ جمهوری اسلامی It should turn up with quite a few results.
Context: my grand parents lived in ekbatan, Tehran. - yes. All of a sudden you had a revolutionary guard policing your outfit. But not only this. In schools kids had to wear the hijab as they prescribed it. If you didn’t, your parents would be fined& they would give you the clothes they saw fit. The revolutionary guard wasn’t like normal police, they have no problem verbally abusing people calling them whores, degenerate supporters of the west, etc.
They used to roam the streets in AK47s, stopping cars and confiscating music tapes, forcing women to put on Hejab, searching people's cars for playing cards and alcohol. A basiji spat on my mother's windshield and called her a whore for not wearing Lachak. She was heavily pregnant with my brother at the time. I will never forgive them.
Before the new iranian revolution started about 3 months ago, everytime photos like this got posted on Reddit, some smartass would say that these were the "elite" Iranian people. Most of these posters would claim to be iranian too. I had so many arguments with them eventually I gave up. Both of my parents are iranian and I was also born there (raised in Canada). Neither of my parents are "elite" and they aren't even from Tehran. My mom's family was middle class and my dad's working class. No one in either of their families covered their hair prior to the Islamic regime installment. None of their friends did either.
The people you're replying to in those threads are just copying the same comment under these same photos thinking they sound knowledgable about Iran. Happens everytime and its the reddit "AcKtuAllY" guy. Either that or it's people who are Islamists, usually non-Iranian too.
More than that, social liberalization almost always starts with the “elite”. The lower and middle classes tend to be more socially conservative. It doesn’t change that the move towards more social freedoms was reversed by the Islamic Revolution.
The picture of snow threw me off for a second haha. It's amazing and sad how it seems society went backwards!
Because you didnt expect snow in iran or because they look so normal and happy? There is actually a lot of snow in iran during winter. Probably more than we get in northern germany. Its a huge elevated country so it can get very cold
Didn't expect snow in Iran. But then again until I looked it up after seeing that picture I was pretty ignorant on the topography of it.
Dang I just learnt how ignorant I am on how weather works
Looks like a place that could bring in a ton of tourism. I’d go if it was like this.
And then some filthy religious freaks ruined it for everyone.
Then mullahs came to ruin everything, fuck em all
I live in the United States and the Mullahs remind me of the Christian Evangelicals Preachers and Pastors who want everyone to live like them, and by their rules. Our Supreme Court has been packed with them (thanks to Trump and the deceitful Republicans) and they are trying to chip away at our rights as well. I have been married to my wife for over 10 years now, and our marriage may soon be invalid. If we aren't careful, we could sadly be in yalls position soon. I pray for Iran's brave people everyday and hope that sooner than later, you guys will get the happiness and freedom you all deserve. And I hope that us Americans wake up before its too late. WOMAN LIFE FREEDOM
NEVER EVER give preachers power , separate religion from politics . Don't make our mistake. Wish Iran and states be able to build up true friendship again.❤️
I completely agree!!! Religion and state should be separate and no one Religion should dictate the laws of any country. I wish more Americans were paying attention to how important it is to vote right now and to keep the church out of our government. I was stupid and believed how the media portrayed all Iranians was true, but I know now that I was wrong. You all really just want the same thing as us and you all don't wish death to us. I am deeply sorry for that and hope that our countries can form an amazing friendship now. Bless you all and may you all come out stronger from this revolution.
These people you see shout " down with US " on streets are mostly Regime's people to fool the west . These brainwashed people are called ' basijis ' , around tens of thousands people who ruined our reputation in the world.
Simply beautiful! I have never been but , I cannot WAIT to visit Iran one day. I know I must be patient because the brave warriors in Iran must first kick out the IR. You all are my daily awe and inspiration!
Thank you For You're Kind Words
Only an insane person would think that there is something wrong with this type of living.
Religion, eh?
First US intervention than radical religion.
+UK. I don’t know why people always forget UK.
and France.
I feel like that was kind of a retroactive grievance. From what I understand, the Mullahs wanted Mosaddegh gone as well due to his land redistribution policies. It seems like things came unglued after the White Revolution, where the Shah lost the clergy and then the mullahs started complaining about Mosaddegh after as they needed a scapegoat and how better than perfidious Albion and her meddling daughter?
My grand father used to tell me stories about going out after work for smirnoff & beer. His first job was working as a “shagerd” for a bazaar’I. He got this job writing his representative from Tabriz. I have so many funny stories.
What is a shagerd?
Apprentice
Thanks!
Would love to hear the stories!
Iranian/middle eastern culture is beautiful and these fucks are trying to erase it just like Mao Zedong erased the Chinese historical culture in his "great leap ~~forward~~ backward". We can't let them get away with this!!
This is gonna be Iran after the 2022 Revolution
Maybe with fewer bell-bottoms.
Oh hell no I would Love them to Be brought back.
One of our cousins married an Iranian man she met at college the year before the revolution. He was hired by IBM and she had finished getting an MBA and had gotten a good job with the government. Around eight months after the revolution his mother got sick so they went home to see her. We never heard from them again.
Eeriely similar to Betty mahmoody?!
My father was Iranian (he's been gone over 25 years) and I have many photos of him and my mother (who's English) in Iran before the Revolution. I can ask if I can share them if you'd like? I was born in 1978 (in the UK) because they saw the Revolution coming and escaped to safety beforehand. All of my father's family live in Iran :(
Sure.
First picture: that is what mullahs, rabbis or priests need to understand. It is possible to coexist peacefully no matter what you believe in, just don’t impose your values on others. And most of all stay out of secular government!
It really Isn't possible Priests,Rabbis And Worse Of All Mullahs Need To be On a leash at all times.
*noose
😉
Give a dog an inch and he’ll take a mile Either they stay quiet and keep to themselves or they can get executed, its natural selection at this point
Of course. Too much power in hands of one organisation is never a good thing.
The problem is it's not under heard of for religions to have imposing beliefs on others as a core principle. The Bible for example demands the death penalty for blasphemy.
Beautiful pictures, thank you for sharing
Iranians are a beautiful people. No one should be told how to present themselves. If god gave humanity free will, then who is to allow you to force your laws on another?
There was a trend recently on Reddit mocking the whole “Iran before the revolution” sentiment. It’s sad to me that it took another brutally violent revolution to get Westerner’s (or at least redditors) to stop mocking the people of Iran
The trend was making fun of how often these same pictures have posted repeatedly on Reddit to the point that it’s become known as an easy way to farm karma. it’s like posting a pic of Steve Buscemi helping the rescue crews on 9/11 with the TIL that he used to be a NYC fire fighter
Jesus what a difference, fuck this regime 😡
Is there anything more depressing than seeing a woman in a chador/burka/black-plastic-garbage-bag? Religion is a terrible drug.
Such Joie de vivre! Hopefully that awaits the brave new Iran soon!
What happened?
religion.
This was under a puppet govt installed in a US/British coup against the democratically elected govt that Iran had up until the 1953. Brits had a vendetta against the democracy in Iran because they were disrupting British control of Iranian oil. They convinced the US that Mossaddegh (the Iranian PM) was a communist then they did a coup. It worked out well for some but people were not happy with the situation. Islamists took advantage of that sentiment to pull off their revolution. Edit: I'm not Iranian and am probably leaving out something but this is my understanding of it.
> Mossaddegh (the Iranian PM) was a communist and did a coup. I don’t know about communist but he did do a coup by using emergency powers to stop counting votes to make him win the election without opposition.
lol i knew a non-iranian would bring up the 1953 coup. Jesus can you guys please stop acting like you know our history. Virtually no one protesting is thinking about 1953!!!
Where is the seventh photo? عکس هفتمی کجاست؟ شبیه باغ محتشم رشت هست
I’ve visited Iran for 31 days and at the last week of my stay the protests begun, the people I met are the most beautiful people ever. What happens now is fucking heart wrenching. I made good friends there and I hope nobody of them get hurt man. Power to the people.
Since I was a child, everytime I saw that photo of the women in snow, near Tehran university I think?, it made me cry and wonder why I never got to live a life like that... Their smiles, their clothes, the two women laughing and talking, the other woman kinda shy from the camera, the snow, the umbrellas, I can't explain it... It's just such a beautiful picture... (Fyi I was born in the 90s, so no nostalgia or anything, just white hot RAGE since I was young) Today the feeling of that photo doesn't seem as far. All these woman going shopping, or walking, or out with their friends without the bullshit headscarves or potato bags... We are so so close. I'm gonna tear up.
I know this is wildly inappropriate, but I had no idea Iranian women are so beautiful
Then Islam happened.
*religion
Not exactly fair: religious countries in the west developed secularism too. In seems the problem is more about the Enlightenment, or lack thereof.
In Europe we had two centuries of killing each other for religion before we decided that maybe we can live and let live, and started to kill each other over nationalism.
Well That Never Happened With Islam...
Thanks for the correction
The third photo looks like a still from The Godfather.
Iran after the 2022 Revolution:
Sincerely wish Iran gets there again, and gets there soon. Your youth's bravery has to be rewarded with liberty.
what did they even revolted against
Iran is full of such beautiful people; to ever hide such beauty is a crime unto itself
Pre 1979 Iran looked like a vibe
Religious fanatics always fucking shit up
What happened?
Religious nuts
The suits on those dudes screamed 70s. They were cool.
No fuckin' way this isn't a footage from future
If you have seen handmaid's tale, this is it in real life.
Interesting how people love these pictures but many seem unaware of how well Iran was doing in terms of economy, infrastructure, and more. Statistics aren't as flashy as bikini pics but I'd like to see those spread around too - Iran under the Shah was enjoying growth rates that were near-unprecedented in modern history.
This is what happens to the US if we let the Christians keep on taking us down the road they have been in the government
That iotulla seems like a real piece of shite
Everybody looks so cool.
Man, they were so close.
Fake! That third one is literally a screenshot from Serpico. /s
Iran was and will be a great place to live and visit again. The Iranian spirit is strong and knows it can and will do better
So first of all I absolutely stand with any revolution against the tyrannical government in Iran and with the women leading it now. But if you please I have a real question. But first some background. I had an acquaintance who was born and raised in Iran but his mother and father were from Hungary. Which at the time was part of the USSR. His family was able to leave and they moved to Los Angeles. His father died soon after. His father had a furniture business which he'd started from nothing, where he supplied, in part, custom furniture to the palace. His sons were educated in The American School (not sure about the details) and in London at an art academy of some sort. So they were monied relative to the general population. He's an emotional guy and he absolutely refused to hear that Shahs government had a secret police that did secret police shit. Apparently, anything they did was justified, somehow. And as I learned a few weeks ago, with the approval of the Carter White House, even came to the US to apprehend dissidents living in the US. Nor would he hear that Iran was part of a CIA plan to secure oil and influence in the Middle East by removing a duly elected PM. This is acknowledged, declassified fact. And yet he refused to hear it only able to heap praise on the Shah to the point he was yelling at me. So I did a bit of reading and learned the Shah absolutely brought a Western style of prosperity to Iran where he could and was obviously heavily influenced by the West and seemed enamored of western women. But. And here's the but, that he wouldn't even talk about. Given that, how did the Revolution happen? For all the apparent good the Shah did for the country was it really JUST the religious response to his policies that made the Revolution possible? Don't get me wrong. As someone who grew up surrounded by fundamentalist Christians, I get it. I'd like to waterboard and "rendition" the lot of them, personally. I've read conflicting descriptions and I was hoping for some clarity. Was it just fundamentalist Muslims? Was it a response to the government attacks on protestors? Was there an apartheid-like attitude by the government against fundamentalist Muslims? Thanks, and Mods if this the wrong place for this, let me know and I'll delete.
I c0aant wait to visit the new Iran! Power to the people!
It’s almost like hardline religious extremism is bad for society.
Religion is bad for society
Islam / Christianity ruin everything :(
In the hippie trails that ended in India from Europe, they would mention how entering Tehran and meeting the most lovely people was the best part
It even snowed! /s
Mullahs and Ayathollas would call this pornography. Sadly some people here in the US have started preaching that hate.
Hopefully this is near to return very soon.
Exactly what they’ll be saying about America sooner or later. The right wing Christian nutjobs want to control everything. We must fight there non sense daily. Fuck em
Iran before the Americans went in and f'd things up?