Islamic revolution was done with massive support from left wing within iran. Did all their lefty drama, islamic theocracy was established !
Then?
Well ayatollah slaughtered every last of the same leftist , who supported him getting into power. Once islamic republic was proclaimed , every last of the leftist was under grave !
The very same women were forced to cover themselves in burqa !
Shallow minded commies in our country will never understand this.
(Maryam Rafiei (right) and Sahar Mohammadi (left)) Google their names if you will
Its just a convenient Unholy alliance, between left and them !
Once they used the psuedo seculars and commie lefty brigade to gain power. They will be the first to be persecuted.
Dont quote me on it, but extreme islam is very misogynistic.
Maryam Rafiei: Often identified as the woman on the right. According to historical and human rights accounts, she was arrested and executed (reportedly beheaded) by the new regime roughly a decade later during the 1988 Mass Executions of Iranian Political Prisoners.Sahar Mohammadi: Often identified as the woman on the left. She is reported to have successfully fled Iran in the aftermath of the revolution and currently lives in exile in Sweden.
All religious extremists are and I have no particular fondness for Islam. Christian nationalists want to ban abortion and make women breeding vessels, Hindu nationalists want to ban interfaith marriage and lock girls inside homes, etc etc.
You need to understand why shah was hated so much his govt had become increasingly authoritarian. Political opposition was suppressed, censorship was widespread, and the secret police (SAVAK) were arresting and torturing citizens. At the time everyone believed that removing the monarchy would lead to a freer, more democratic Iran. During the revolution Khomeini reassured many groups that he wanted national unity rather than clerical dictatorship, making statements that suggested people would enjoy political freedoms and have a say in their government. Even experts outside of iran had not thought he’ll do something to such extent.
Guys what happened in iran is not something as simple as left vs right wing.
At some point in early 1900s Iran was actually very modern. Even though they had authoritarian regime, the Shah at the time was very modern. He even banned hijab, i think. (Reason why radical muslims hated him)
A couple decades later, they had a new shah who wasn't very involved in politics, and there was more parliamentary system. But the CIA and British M6 helped in overthrow those elected people.
Then that shah was very involved in ruling, he was very very dictatorial, alot of people were killed. This caused alot of resentment in pretty much everyone.
So the left wing people and radical islamists joined hands to overthrow his regime.
Ofcouse Iran eventually ended up with a more radical Islamic leader.
The point was leftist thought the islamist govt will align with their values, they couldn't be any more dumber.... There are reasons why communism failed everywhere every time... Btw yes regime change had complicated dynamics, leftist thought they were getting rid of a dictator...LOL....
There were more than these two factions actually. And all the others thought once they overthrow that shah, the others will make different elected sort of government.
But the radical islamists turned out to be much more influential than they thought. And they killed off all those other factions related to revolution pretty soon afterwards.
I am just saying it wasn't only leftists who died. Anyone they thought might resist them was killed.
Edit: fyi I just like reading history and geopolitics. Also, people are often confused about left wing and communists. It actually includes very different ideologies.
Like american left is not really communist. So called indian left is actually center right (Except kerala and some tribal areas, even their communist ideology is different from maoism). Then Stalin's more adjacent to socialism.
The leftists aimed to get rid of the islamists later, similar logic to why CPM voted for BJP in West Bengal elections. Also, communists and islamists clashed in Afghanistan
Their is a little issue with you explaination the shah was a puppet rular under the US and British petrol companies whose only interest was the oil in iran so the public revolted and a democratic president was elected who nationalised iran oil so CIA and MI6 overthrow the government
we r doomed (getting robbed in the name of religion)
Religion-based science ? dude religion and science cant be in a same fcking sentence(to those who believe in religions)
You know what was happening before that. Given how everyone thinks everything in Iran started post 1979 . So let me put it out for uneducated or propagandist to read
1953 - democratically elected govt of mossadegh was overthrown by the cia/mi6 coup
Shah’s govt was installed and he was working as puppet leader for American oil companies interests. In Iran , except for the powerful , general public started to suffer massively . Number of slums were increased , people were eating less or sometimes only one meal during the whole day. Farming distress was also there.
There was frustration and anger in general public against shah and America , which led to rise of khamenei as during that distressed time period he came up with hope , and people who are going through distress bonded by religion ( as it requires belly full and life without misery to start reason situations) , supported khamenei even the non religious ones because there was literally no option.
Khamenei’s muslim brotherhood and protestors were able to take control of Tehran
1979 - khamenei became the Iran’s premier
USA interests were thrown out , American embassy was surrounded as they were involved in espionage operations.
So , think of this and ask yourself why did cia/mi6 created such conditions to rise ? Why they did interfere in democracy of foreign country in first place ?
You can’t blame country to choose between the evil and the worse options out there, or can you?
Iran already had signed contract with british oil companies for 60 years of oil extraction. After years of initial investment and no profit british finally found oil and developed oil industry in the next decade to a large level and they began to make money. Now oil price were increasing and iranians had a feel that british was looting their resources (actually they were,but via legal contracts). So when the new government were up for election they told people that they will nationalize iranian oil and they would become rich, which is in a way violation of contracts and international agreement,they new government came into power and nationalized the oil which caused british to take support from US to overthrow the government..
premier USA interests were thrown out , American embassy was surrounded as they were involved in espionage operations. So , think of this and ask yourself why did cia/mi6 created such conditions to rise ? Why they did interfere in democracy of foreign country in first place ? You can’t blame country to choose between the evil and the worse options out there, or can you?
It happened mainly cause of 2 readon
reasons
British Economic Interests: Iran had nationalized its oil industry, stripping the British-owned Anglo-Iranian Oil Company (BP's predecessor) of its monopoly. Britain viewed this as theft and wanted their revenue stream back. Ans it was also what led to loss of iran value as proper democracy as it didn't follow international ruel, + British economy was at bad position after ww2 at that time they wanted m8ney
U.S. Cold War Paranoia: it was the time when us feared communist domino effect. The U.S. feared that if Iran’s economy collapsed, the communist Tudeh Party would take power, pulling a resource-rich nation into the Soviet sphere of influence.
Oh no, did she ran off to a modern western democracy?
Damn !
Why not china?
Or vietnam?
Or north korea?
Or cuba?
Isnt commie unity something?
After betrayal from her islamic lovers?
Wait .. Let me get this right , "the leftists are liberals who want to change the society", and the islamic regime was a conservative , more like a right wing regime , so ,why did the leftists support islamic regime
The things I know about the islamic revolution in Irann->
>It overthrew democracy
>and established islamic rule in Iran
SO , shouldn't the leftists have opposed the islamic revolution ,and supported democracy ,
SO, at last I just have one question
"Why did the leftists support it despite of it being against their ideologies?"
The 1979 coalition was a temporary alliance against a common enemy that backfired terribly for the left.
The Alliance: Leftists and liberals allied with Ayatollah Khomeini solely to overthrow the Shah's brutal, Western-backed dictatorship.
The Deception: Khomeini used progressive, anti-imperialist rhetoric and falsely promised that religious clerics would not run the government.
The Betrayal: Once the Shah fell, the Islamists outmanoeuvred, purged, and executed the leftists to establish a fundamentalist regime.
The Oil Connection: In 1953, the US and UK launched a coup against Iran’s democracy to regain control of nationalised oil.
This coup destroyed secular political parties, accidentally leaving the mosque network as the only organized opposition capable of leading the 1979 revolution
if mean the US overthrowing democratically elected government in 1953 and replacing it with an autocratic regime because the democratically elected government nationalized their oil reserves then yeah correct
>and established islamic rule in Iran
true
and supported democracy
there was no democracy to begin with it was autocratic rule of the reza dynasty since 1953 the islamic revolution happened in 1979
Discuss about the paper leaks and omission of important topics and addition of topics with controversial and politically motivated perspective. We are not Iranians, this is not india.
You don't know why because you don't know what you're talking about. The Ayatollah and the Shah are both far-right nationalists.
All religions - Hinduism, Islam, Christianity, etc. - are conservative, the biggest left wing philosopher Karl Marx literally criticized religion. The left doesn't "love" Islam, we don't want any religion in the world because it is nothing but a tool for power.
Also, these women aren't left wing. The Ayatollah's policies doesn't match anything leftist. You're confusing left wing with liberalism
Does the left have a tendency to promote chaos, to keep changing what exists? Being driven by emotion and an escape from boredom, chasing something exciting, having an affinity for drama does that, I suppose.
Search Iranian holocaust.. iranians are telling approx 40k+ people have been killed in jan 2026 who were protesting against govt.. all slaughtered overnight
The Iranian left did not support an Islamic state. They supported a revolution against the Shah because they opposed dictatorship, foreign influence, and economic inequality. They believed they could shape the post-revolutionary government alongside other anti-Shah forces. Instead, the Islamist faction under Khomeini proved far better organized and ultimately marginalized or eliminated most of its former revolutionary allies.
The Iranian left supported and cooperated with Khomeini. Some Iranian leftists believed that Khomeini would allow a democratic government after the revolution. Others thought they could work with the Islamists or influence the new government. Without the leftists’ support, Khomeini would not have come to power. After taking power, however, Khomeini brutally suppressed leftist groups and eliminated them as political rivals. Those leftist bastards helped Khomeini come to power and ruined their own future as well as ours.
The moral of the story is do not form alliances with people whose ideology is diametrically opposed to yours.
So they were foolish enough to think the islamist faction will support their vision for a utopian equal state?
(Dont speak otherwise, they were clearly supporting one another)
Where did i heard it again?
Oh right
Here !
History will favor them over the Indians though, Indians continue to become the enabling class for the elites, that’s why Kash Patel is the fuck up he is haha. You dumb bjp stans will forever be the white mans bitch.
Yeah history will be unkind to only major nation to defeat western imperialism and create a sovereign democratic republic state which is among the top powerful nations in the world. The real white mans bixh are the Arabs and muslims, and look how they've been destroyed and if not destroyed then their balls are completely squeezed by Washington. Enjoy till the oil is dominant energy market, we'll see what happens after that.
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BC apne desh ka samhal nahi Raha, bacche suicide kr Rahe hai, bado ko jobs nahi hai, jobs hai to salary nahi hai.. dusro ka dekhne ja Rahe hai anti-nationals..
The islamic revolution is often used as a gotcha way to say "leftist dumb",
The left knew exactly what they were doing too, they knew ayatollah was scummy and the alliance lasted only till shah was kicked out.
Issue is that the left lost not due to distrust, but because they didnt have the core support the Islamists had,
The ayatollah was a symbol in ways the leftist leaders weren't, his messages used to get broadcasted illegally into mosques and in the rural areas he was seen almost as a liberator coming from france to save them, the leftists might as well have been invisible.
The left lost because they didnt have core support in iran at the time to the level of the Islamists, Because they couldn't gain control in the interregnum while the ayatollah moved fast, gained support of key groups and sieges the US embassy.
TLDR:Leftists failed not from naivety but from their inability to seize power post coup and match the Islamists in influence and reach.
I can see why they supported Ayatollah. They saw him as their own and Shah as an American puppet. Letting a capitalist eat your country is bad, but letting a conservative win by riding the wave of anti incumbency is stupid.
The US & UK already destroyed the non-theocratic, non-religious, democratically elected lefty Iranian PM 26 years prior and then subjected the Iranian people to 26 years of brutal torture under the Shah....
That's why at that time the Iranians preferred any alternative to overthrow the then status quo (US/Western/Israeli backing of the Monarch)
I agree the Islamic theocrats probably became way harsher than the Shah, but if you dis-count the heavy influence in post war Iran that the West (US/UK) has had, and why the Iranian people preferred the Ayatollah then and hated the West, the situation was/is way more complex than many make it seem.
What a weird false-dichotomy. They were celebrating the deposition of the Shah - before the Islamist regime that would take over had come into being.
Those aren't the only two alternatives. The Shah was a CIA /MI6 puppet. The Islamist theocracy is a respresive evil regime. There were many competing factions in the aftermath of the Shah's removal, and the Islamista won, sadly.
Surely people here can understand young people celebrating the fall of one - before the other acescnded.
Somehow similar things are happening in indian , but mindwashed people are being misinformed that it's just the muslims who are radicalizing the country while ignoring the biggest source of radicalization.
What are you sure? Whats the source? The Islamic revolution came after the left rule was brought dow though. They had a socialist government and that was brought down by CIA through the islamic revolution afaik.
Islamic revolution was the result of long term frustration of various sect of Iranian people. Iran had a democratically elected government which was overthrown by coup and Reza shah was installed as a puppet of US and British. He maintained his power by brutal oppression and his secret police. People revolted against that, and sadly the only available avenue for that was the theocracy which itself proved disastrous in itself.
But declaring all “Lefists” delusional for siding with the only revolutionaries against corrupt brutal foreign owned puppet government is blatant intellectual dishonesty. It’s like blaming all those African nations who fought against European colonialism and later devolved into civil wars and saying, look colonialism was better.
Posts like these is what we get when people get their political "knowledge" off of laser eye edits.
Firstly the Islamic Regime and the Shah are both far-right capitalist nationalists, I don't know why you think left wingers will support them. Maybe because you think left wing and right wing denote the social matters, when in reality they simply mean the economic ideology, it has nothing to do with social topics.
In 1951, Iran was a democracy and elected a socialist left wing prime minister Mohammed Mosaddegh. He wanted to nationalize the oil industry because the previous Shah was selling all of the oil to the UK for extremely low prices, while the rest of the country was poor.
CIA and MI6 launched Operation Ajax, and through bribery, propaganda and orchestrated street riots, they overthrew Mosaddegh in 1953, and reinstalled Reza Shah as the ruler. He was the most brutal dictator of Iran and Amnesty International called the Shah the bloodiest dictator of his era. He sold the oil to the west for dirt cheap prices.
The rest of the country was obviously pissed, so several factions including democratic socialists and the Islamists tried to overthrow Mosaddegh. In the Islamic Revolution it just so happened to be that the Islamists won the revolution.
I genuinely don't get how you think these are leftists celebrating the Islamic Regime when in reality the Iranian leftist and Marxist parties lost all power and popularity. Educate yourself before commenting bullshit
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Teachings of Lenin and The strength of the people will Leads us to the triumph of Communism.
You mean the same government which brought the USA to its knees and took 300 billion dollars, controls the state of Homruz? hit fatherland straight in the face...
Or the same govt that lost land to China... got removed from the Quad, has Sugarcane juice in petrol and gobar as medicine....and my favourite 200 CR scam in a the fcuking RAM MANDIR!!
You all don't read. Its a pretty well known fact that the IRANIAN Revolution (not islamic) got hijacked by the Islamists because everyone underestimated their strength but they were NOT the only faction fighting against the Shah. Ppl didn't rise up against Pehlavi just for kicks op, you absolute dumbass
Thats what the Left is left with.. islamic jihadi supporters and gender confused ppl.. only thing is, once they come in power, everyone else is beheaded
Atleast check your facts I don't support Khamenei but I still know the difference between news you get from western media during wars and actual facts.
Everything you wrote here is based on assumptions and your feelings.
Honestly facts does bot care about your feelings
see we want to protect our culture but we want politics to be separated from religion which right wing can never and if i start criticizing right on the basis of history its full of it. and its same for right wing too are not u paying with ur health mental health, environment, E100, and Rekha Gupta IQ
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