(September 24, 2022 at 12:07 am)Eclectic Wrote:(September 23, 2022 at 10:41 pm)Belacqua Wrote: Would these demonstrations be necessary if the USA hadn't overthrown Mosaddegh?
Yes, if America had not overthrown the Mossadegh government, the Islamic government would still have been established.
Because the majority of Iranian people followed the satanic religion of Islam, and these Muslim monsters would ban other parties after their party won the election.
After the revolution of 1979, hijab was not mandatory for 3 years and all parties were active, nationalists, communists and liberals.
But as soon as the Islamists gained very power, they dissolved other parties and executed their followers.
Several thousand girls from different parties were killed by executed in prisons.
According to the laws of Islam, if a girl is arrested and sentenced to death due to ideological opposition to Islam, she must be raped by several Muslims before the execution. The Hizbollah raped and executed the girls.
Muslims destroyed the graves of men and women members of non-Islamic parties.
i would not be so sure about that.
Mosedagh was not just a non-crown wearing substitute for a nominally progress shah. The rise of islamist government in Iran is not just a reaction to the superficially progressive policies of the Shah. It was also every bit a reaction against the corruption of the shah regime and economic policies that favored a narrow urban elite and the expense of the more conservative hinterlands. in other words, it was not the progressiveness of the shah that brought about the islamist reaction of 1979. It was the fact that the shah’s policy was seen as inequitable and economically marginalized the conservative elements which was still the majority in Iran.
so a less corrupt government that put as much policy focus on reducing economic and developmental iniquities as on putting miniskirts on the streets certainly had a very fair chance of permanently forestalling the islamist reaction.
reactionary religions resurgence is seldomly driven primarily by religious fervor. it almost always deserve most of its impetus from being seen as an outlet for social and economic frustration.