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Guys, Guys, Guys, am afraid neither the Shah nor Henry Kissinger are relevant in today’s Iran. Though we all have a perspective! The Khomeinist revolution in Iran was a complex and very multi-layered event. So sorry to interject.

[Olog-hai]

Complex and multi-layered? Probably not. The commies helped undermine the Shah and get Khomeini in there to hurt the USA and Israel; pretty simple. The global communists continue to aid the Islamic Republic any chance they get, for the same purpose.

[Old Teufel Hunden]

"The Khomeinist revolution in Iran was a complex and very multi-layered event. So sorry to interject."

That's what I was trying to explain to him! I was responding to his statement (originally) that went something like "if the Iranians were so western, how come they didn't defend the Shah when he was overthrown". The short and simple reason is because he ran a totalitarian oppressive regime and under those conditions, anyone else is not such a bad option. Just because he was our allay does not mean he wasn't a dictator. We had a lot of those type of allies during the cold war.