Iran: The Irony

[no_hypocrisy]

Current Iranian students are shouting "Death to the dictator," "No to scarf, no to suppression," and direct calls for the overthrow of the regime, including "Death to Khamenei" and "Mullahs must leave Iran".

Their grandfathers were students in 1978-79, shouting "Death to the Shah", leading to his abdication, and the ascent of the fundamentalist religious regime. They stormed the American Embassy, and holding 66 American hostages, with the last one being released in 1981. Women were forced from mini-skirts into burkas.

The pendulum does swing both ways.

[surfered]

1. They were right to oppose the Shah (who the CIA helped install because the democratically elected President nationalized

British oil). Theirs was not the first revolution to go sideways.

Russians were right to overthrow the Czar, but got Lenin. The French got Napoleon. Cuba got Castro.

We we’re just lucky our founding fathers were honorable men.

[Jim__]

2. I thought the irony would be Trump promising to protect protesters.