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Iran's Unhappy Anniversary

Akagi2 Wrote: Feb 11, 2010 6:17 PM

You are right, it is about Iran, but May--our favorite Israel-firster, decided to insert that little gem in about the Cultural Revolution and since "tens of millions" would be at least 20 million, even if we are talking about the most extreme estimates, that means he overestimated it by at least 10x.

And while 1979 Revolution didn't turn out so well, life under the Shah and the brutal SAVAK was no picnic either.

I might add that the candidate the "Iranian Democrats" supported is not much better than who is in power now, he is just as much anti-American, anti-Israel (why this matters to Americans is beyond me) and a hardliner as the current president, be like supporting those who supported Lin Biao over Mao.

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Iran's Unhappy Anniversary

Iran's Islamic Revolution took place 31 years ago today. The country's monarch, Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi, missed it. He had gone abroad in mid-January promising that, when he returned, he would only reign -- not govern.

That wasn't good enough for the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeni, then living in exile in France. On Feb. 1, he flew a chartered jet back to Iran where he was greeted by millions of supporters, many of whom believed he was, quite literally, the messiah, the "hidden imam" awaited by the Shi'a faithful for centuries. Less than two weeks later, the Shah's government collapsed.

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