As I’m watching Iran go up in flames as protesters risk their lives and that of their family to escape the hell of Islamic rule, you wonder how did a country that looked like this in the 1970s.
Become a country that looks like this
Iranians are Persian, not Arabic. Their original religion was not Islam. Prior to the 1979 Islamic Revolution, Zoroastrianism was the ancient religion of Iran and was also the dominant pre-Islamic religious tradition of the Iranian peoples. Pre-1979 Iran, the Iranian people and the Israeli people had a warm relationship. In fact the two countries had joint trade and projects. Next to Israel, the largest number of Jews were living safely in Iran.
Iran today is suffering a water shortage, apparently when your government is more concerned about reconstructing it’s nuclear program rather than dealing with infrastructure little trifles like water don’t count for much. Satellite Imagery Shows Tehran’s Accelerating Water Crisis
Iran has a terrible record for treatment of women, in 2022 a Kurdish Iranian woman named Mahsa Amini was grabbed beaten and tortured to death by the Iranian morality police. Her death resulted in protests with 500 killed and 22,000 detained. More recently Iranian teen Armita Geravand was hospitalized due to the morality police, and an activist named Narges Mohammadi was held in Evian prison. But hey! The UN gave the late Amini an award. Oh, no, they didn’t actually do anything, they just gave the murdered woman an award. The islamic regime in Iran has shot and murdered 22 year old Saghar Etemadi. Some things don’t change.
So how did Iran go from the first video of lovely young women in swimsuits, in dresses out shopping and dancing to being brutally murdered for not wearing their headscarf correctly?
There are apparently some Western, possibly misconceptions. This is a clip of Patrick Bet-David, family from Iran, and he’s explaining to comedian Rob Schneider about life under the Shah for the people of Iran and the rest of the middle east. The clip is only a day or so old and is set to start at the relevant part.
The jist of it is what Savak really was, basically the Iranian CIA, or MI6. Yes, Savak did use to torture, but as the Shah said in his 60 minutes interview that yes, Savak did used to torture, and no, they do not operate that way any longer. But part of the Shah’s downfall was listening to Jimmy Peanuts who told him to release 3000 political prisoners. Those prisoners were ISIS, Al-Queda, Hezbollah and most assuredly it was a horrible thing turning those people lose on the innocent citizens. Apparently the Demoncratic party love of terrorists and criminals goes back many years. PBD points out the region was much more stable, there were not the wars in the middle east all the time and 9/11 would never have happened. It’s interesting listening to Rob Schneider explain to Iranian PBD how things should be. Really listen at the 20:59 if you listen.
Interesting note, part of the people the Savak was trying to suppress were the communist agitators. You know, the communists who destabilize governments everywhere they are? Like Islamists, wherever they are, the choke out and kill everything else. So, the Iranian government, not being insane didn’t want their country destabilized and rode herd on them. The west having it’s share of communist supporters, didn’t frame it quite this way though. Understandable really, who wants to end up like Minnesota?
Things were better under the Shah? It certainly sounds that way from people that are from Iran.
So why would the people vote, for a change from the Shah? In Iran back then it was a constitutional monarchy, with the oldest constitution in the area I believe, so people did vote for the change from the Shah.
Well, I’m so glad you asked.
The revolution was driven by an alliance formed between Islamists and the radical left in Iran. They shared anti-imperialist sentiment against the Shah’s U.S.-backed regime. This evil coalition was made up of secular liberals, nationalists, communists, and Islamist-Marxists, who were united by their opposition to the Shah. Leftist Iranians, influenced by revolutionary communist theories, allied with the Islamic clerical establishment, which possessed an extensive network in mosques and influence over the populace, to gin-up the uprising. So the communist part told everyone they were being oppressed and if they were elected they would have free ________ you choose, the Islamists appealed to the religious aspects, not sure how up front they were with what Sharia really would mean. But they made a lot of promises, and the people believed them, and they have paid very dearly for that.
And, if you’d like a quick primer on other countries that have fallen to Islam, this is the original cultural clothing of women in those countries. Before and after.
https://x.com/AfgZoroastrian/status/2009269160354763202
And following the collapse of the Shah’s rule, Khomeini, return from exile and established a multi-party provisional government. The Islamic Republic then violently suppressed internal dissent and its own partners in the insurrection, including secular liberals, communists, and members of reformist Islamic groups. The communists were dissolved, and their activists were arrested, jailed, and killed. Many political opponents, including communists, socialists, and moderate Islamists, were targeted in massacres following the revolution. So much for further use of the useful idiots.
Color me shocked. As in every other place Islam moves in, it drives everything else out, or they convert.
Right now the good people of Iran are fighting and dying to try to get rid of the evil Islamic regime. The regime has cut all internet, the only way the people are getting the videos of the attacks out is Elon Musk’s Starlink. G-d bless Elon, again. How is the lamestream media covering it, we are in day 17? Well, BBC isn’t really. BBC’s Shameful Coverage
There is growing outrage over the BBC’s coverage of protests in Iran after a blundering report was aired on its flagship News At Ten programme.
Viewers hit out at embarrassing editing errors and the tone of the report, which aired a lengthy statement from the country’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
The BBC was already under scrutiny over allegations it was not giving the nationwide protests enough coverage, after thousands of Iranians took to the streets for the 13th day in a row on Friday.
Is This Why the Media Isn’t Covering the Iran Protests?
The Western liberal media is ignoring the Iranian uprising because explaining it would force an admission it is desperate to avoid: the Iranian people are rebelling against Islam itself, and that fact shatters the moral framework through which these institutions understand the world.
Ideally, to cover an uprising is not just to show crowds and slogans. It requires answering a basic question: why are people risking death? In Iran, the answer is simple and unavoidable. The people are rising up because the Islamic Republic of Iran has spent decades suffocating every aspect of life—speech, work, family, art, women, and economic survival—under a clerical system that treats liberty as a crime. There is no way to tell that story without confronting the nature of the regime.
Western media refuses to do so because it has fundamentally misunderstood Islam. Or worse, it has chosen not to understand it.
Islam, in Western progressive discourse, has been racialized. It is treated not as a belief system or a political ideology, but as a stand-in for race or ethnicity. Criticizing Islam is framed as an attack on “brown people,” Arabs, or “the Middle East,” as if Islam were a skin color rather than a doctrine.
Meanwhile GB news is platforming a terrorist and Dawn Neesom is not telling viewers who the person is. Much like Tucker Qatarlson platforming the nun with the mustache that is George Stephaglaopogas’s sister.
Here Mahyar talks about GB News asking him for help, and the MEK terrorist Dawn Neesom ended up interviewing and his thoughts about the dishonesty. It’s set to start at the relevant part. The whole thing is good and is an update as well. Mahyar is a good resource for news in general, but especially Iran. His Dad is still trapped there.
https://www.youtube.com/live/bKDcwxH44Nk?si=3rc76grWzsJoqwRe&t=373
These Twitter clips are well worth listening to.
Iranian Elica LeBon is asking where are the human rights activists? And she answers it I suspect.
Iranian Goldie Ghamari explains what is going on in Iran, not filtered by BBC or CNN
Today there was a terrorist attack in L.A. It was perpetrated by MEK, Mojahedin-e-Khalq. MEK is a radical communist organization, and they are using lobbyists in US to convince Republicans that MEK is an alternative to the Islamic regime in Iran. It is not. MEK, as you will recall is the group that Dawn Neesom platformed on GB News without telling viewers that the person was from a terrorist group, which is why Mahyar Tousi called them out. MEK was responsible for the death of U.S. military officers and contractors in Iran between 1973 and 1976. They are a Marxist and Islamist cult that is rejected inside Iran. Again, they murdered American soldiers, celebrated the 9/11 Islamic terrorist attacks on New York City, and are longtime allies of the PLO Islamic terrorist organization, among having involvement in other atrocities. Until a decade ago, MEK was designated as a terrorist group in the US and Canada. Their terror designation was removed by Hillary Clinton under Barak Hussein Obama.
It’s possible today they added to their death tally. They drove a U-haul, a big one, into a peaceful rally of Iranians and their supporters who were rallying for Reza Pahlavi, son of the last Shah to return to Iran. The terrorist just drove through the rally and mowed them down. I’m not crazy about the narrator of the video, but this one has the two clips together in one. The one of him driving through and the one of the people trying to get him out of the cab and the police protecting him. Sadly.
President Trump has said he will intervene if Iran “starts shooting at the protesters.” Well, there are estimates of 2,000-6,000 dead. The regime is showing up at hospitals and dragging out everyone with a gunshot wound. Some they are just killing there and the regime have taken control of all the hospitals I believe in Tehran. So, I’m not really sure what President Trump considers “starts shooting”. These brave people have been out rallying every night now, risking everything for freedom. And had President Trump let Israel finish the job last year, there would be 6,000 Iranians still alive. Like Michelle Bachman said in a clip in an article or two ago, America never lets Israel win. This time it cost the Iranians as well, very dearly.
A watermelon, Hamass/terrorist green on the outside, Communist red on the inside. Truly and unholy alliance. Iran is one country destroyed by the green-red alliance, who is the other watermelon? Why, it’s New York City!
Mamdani campaigned as a Shia 12er Islamic Muslim, same as Iran. He’s a proud Communist. He told you what he was. And like all Muslims who practice Taqiyya, he lied about some things.
While the Qur’an is against believers deceiving other believers—for “surely God guides not him who is prodigal and a liar”—deception directed at non-Muslims, generally known in Arabic as taqiyya, also has Qur’anic support and falls within the legal category of things that are permissible for Muslims.
So, what has NYC’s newly elected little Jihadi done so far to advance his watermelon status? He is the product of a Hollyweird film maker mother, and a college professor father. Mamdani’s father sits on council of anti-Israel group tied to terror, legitimizes role of suicide bombers. Probably explains Zoran’s chants of “Globalize the Intifada”. Eh what? So all this was known before the elections. And how has he started out his reign?
Well, on day one he canceled all the previous Mayor Eric Adams Executive orders. Including
On First Day in Office, New York City Mayor Mamdani Revokes IHRA Antisemitism Definition
In one of his first acts in office after being inaugurated on Thursday, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani revoked the city’s adoption of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) Working Definition of Antisemitism.
The decision overturned an executive order signed in June by then-Mayor Eric Adams, which had aligned New York City with the global standard used to identify and confront contemporary antisemitism.
City Hall confirmed that Mamdani rescinded all executive orders issued by Adams after September 26, 2024. The rollback took effect immediately.
Among the nullified orders was a separate directive signed by Adams barring city officials from engaging in actions that discriminate against Israel or Israeli entities.
And the fruit of his attitude is already on the vine. From January 8th of this year.
https://x.com/RitchieTorres/status/2009458688122089505
Activists protested outside a synagogue, chanting, “Say it loud, say it clear, we support Hamas here.”
He has appointed a criminal to be a criminal justice advisor. Zohran Mamdani Appoints Ex-Con Rapper Who Served 7 Years for Armed Robbery as Criminal Justice Adviser
New York City’s incoming mayor has made a choice that’s got people talking—and not in a good way. Zohran Mamdani’s picked Mysonne Linen, a rapper who did seven years in prison for armed robbery, to advise him on criminal justice. The appointment is raising eyebrows across the city.
The decision to elevate a figure convicted of violently targeting taxi drivers stands in stark contrast to Mamdani’s campaign rhetoric, which frequently championed cabbies as the city’s ‘unsung heroes’ and central to his working-class coalition.
Mamdani taps controversial lawyer who defended al Qaeda terrorist for top role: ‘Powerful advocate’
Socialist New York Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani announced on Tuesday that he is appointing controversial lawyer Ramzi Kassem, who defended al Qaeda terrorist Ahmed al-Darbi in court, as the city’s top attorney.
Mamdani, who will take office on Jan. 1, announced he was appointing Kassem as New York City’s chief counsel, the top legal role in the city. He also shared that he is appointing Steven Banks a self-proclaimed “social justice attorney” as corporation counsel and Helen Arteaga as deputy mayor for health and human services.
His housing director is an un-hinged Communist.
Mamdani’s Commie Housing Official Is a Lunatic
If Cea Weaver did not exist, one would be hard-pressed to invent her. Weaver seems to have been designed in a laboratory to work in the Ideological Compliance Department of the East German Kommunale Wohnungsverwaltung, but, as the result of an unfortunate accident with a time machine, ended up overseeing housing policy in the most important city in the United States. She believes that “rent control is a perfect solution to everything” — not least because it is an “effective way to shrink the value of real estate.” She considers that “private property is a weapon of white supremacy,” she believes that “homeownership is racist,” and she holds that the highest aim of government ought to be to “impoverish the *white* middle class.” And they say that ambition is dead in America!
Here’s How Much Commie Mamdani’s ‘Affordable’ Government Housing Will Cost You
What does Weaver mean we have to pay for something that’s a right?
“If your income is zero,” Weaver continued, “you pay zero. If your income is $500,000 a year, you’re paying 30 percent of that. And the government is…the sort of owner or not even the owner. The government doesn’t have to be the owner, but the government is what’s making sure all of that sort of works and cash flows.”
She also admitted something without knowing she admitted it: the “collective” won’t own anything. The government will. That’s what they mean by the “warmth of collectivism”: AWFLs like Weaver will decide where and how you live, and take all of your money for it.
Mayor Mamdani’s Nightmare Start
Mamdani’s inaugural address, which sounded like a ChatGPT rewrite of the Communist Manifesto, was even more ghastly. “I was elected as a Democratic Socialist and I will govern as a Democratic Socialist,” he declared, promising to start an “era of big government” and to govern “expansively and audaciously.”
By far the most controversial line was his pledge to “replace the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism.” Perhaps nothing else he has said so completely captures just how dangerous, ignorant, and deeply un-American Mamdani and his political ideology are. Rugged individualism is the beating heart of the American spirit. It fueled the first settlers to forge a new nation from wilderness, spurred on the Founding Fathers to craft a cradle of liberty from tyranny, and has sustained every generation of American patriots since.
The record of collectivism, meanwhile, is one of scarcity, pain, and despair. According to the best estimates, “collectivism” (also known as communism) killed 100 million people in the 20th century alone. That Mayor Mamdani doesn’t know this – or perhaps just doesn’t care – should be terrifying.
I would say many New Yorkers are in for a big shock. Why I don’t know. Many people tried to warn them, but the media and the Demoncrats/Communists just spun and lied and lacking sense, they voted him in. So looking at how the Shia 12er + Communism has turned out for Iran, our first watermelon I can’t help but think about all those proud blue hairs, transgender, and queer and proud marches for Zoran. Lots and lots of tall buildings in NYC. Voting….consequences….
I ran across this music video, yeah, that’s what happened, I just randomly ran across this…anyway, one of the guitarists was born in Iran and escaped to Israel, wrote a song about his dream to listen to Bob Dylan on the radio. I will warn you, this is pretty graphic. It’s from an old band called The Good Life.
Pray for Iran.
