Iran wiped out most of that generation in its eight-year war with Iraq. At its end in 1988, the Iranians were down to unarmed teenagers, which the mullahs sent in waves against Iraqi border emplacements where they were used as human shields for the few remaining armed and trained Iranian troops who followed behind.
The legacy of the war with Iraq is an Iranian population in which two-thirds of the Iranian population is under 25 and where the average age of the mullahs who conducted it is somewhere around 75.
Most of the generation of students who launched the revolution are dead. Their children view the revolution as a catastrophe that killed their parents and has stolen their freedom.
Perhaps, the God who took down communism so recently is working to discredit islam. We can pray so!
I would add that God helps those who help themselves!
Thanks for the update re the horrible consequences the Islamakazi Mullahs have brought on the people of Iran.
Prayers offered!
My Farsi-speaking wife would say, "..with people who love Americans (whatever they think of the country)" She says that as a rule when Americans go to live there they try to live with and not lord it over the locals -- unlike those from other cultures, and the Persians recognize, respect and respond to that.
It would seem they remember too, though one Iranian acquaintance remarked a few weeks ago that things have eased enough that "Americans are already returning to Iran" to live -- as difficult as that is for me to believe.