The Shah was not the moron as the media portrayed him.
He was a staunch anti-communist and that got him slandered in the media. The revolution was started by the Soviets, not the students. Khomenie took it over.
While the Shah killed some political enemies numbering under 3000, Khomenie killed 300,000 his first two years. The Shah's political enemies were Soviet backed revolutionaries, not average citizens opposed to strict Islamic rules.
Yup. Any enemy of Jimmah Cawtuh is a friend of mine! If peanut brain didn't like him he couldn't have been all that bad.
Another thought: It took upwards of 150,000 of the world's finest to enable a free election in Iraq. I'd hate to turn the Iranians against us by invading their country; but how can free elections be held there if it's anything like Iraq? Wouldn't the defeated military then become insurgents and shut down democracy?