“...the Ayatollahs.”
Funny thing about the Ayatollah Khamenei. In college in 1979 when the Shah of Iran fell, the dozens of annoying Iranians who had been protesting the man who was paying for their education changed tune fast. They all wanted to stay. I asked one guy why they didn’t want to go home when they suddenly had what they wanted. He said, “Not that guy, we didn’t want him.” Well, I asked, what did you want? He couldn’t answer. They had protested and protested against the guy paying their bills without ever having a clear image of what would come next. When they got their heart’s desire suddenly it was too late to be careful what they wished for. Turns out they just wanted to be allowed personal freedoms like smoking and not wearing the hajib or being beaten for talking to a woman. The Shah already had that on offer but it wasn’t good enough because the Shah had secret police, or something. My impression was they were all political idiots living in a fantasy world.
“...political idiots living in a fantasy world.”
Sounds just like our rat voters.
“My impression was they were all political idiots living in a fantasy world.”
“But this isn’t what I meant!” That was heard millions upon millions of times in the 20th century. Usually just before some poor bastard was shoved up against a wall and shot, or hanged, or beaten to death, or starved in some work camp.
Most people don’t want freedom. They want a just master.
And there aren’t any of those.
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I have often wondered what happened to her family and to her life after the Shah was evicted.
Hopefully, they were able to start over again in Israel or the USA.