RE: What the hell happened too these people.
March 16, 2015 at 9:58 pm
(This post was last modified: March 16, 2015 at 10:05 pm by Thumpalumpacus.)
(March 16, 2015 at 7:23 pm)dyresand Wrote: http://izismile.com/2014/02/26/a_look_at..._pics.html
This is Iran during the 1960's
Seriously.... they go from
This
http://img.izismile.com/img/img7/2014022...640_32.jpg
to fucking this....
http://www.travel-pictures-gallery.com/i...n-0012.jpg
This is a joke to progression this is like fucking steps no fucking leaps backwards if you ask me... just why.... just why the hell did they let this happen to themselves... :face-palm:
I lived in Iran from 1974 to 1978. A typical street scene included head-to-toe chadores showing only eyes, to beautiful women unafraid to walk in miniskirts right next to their veiled sisters. It was a healthy, heterogeneous society that was tolerant of a wide range of behavior.
What happened? There was a marriage of convenience between the mullahs, on one side, and the Tudeh Party -- the Iranian communist party -- who worked with each other to overthrow the Shah, in January of 1979. (I saw the most of that revolution personally, leaving the country in December 1978). When the Revolution succeeded, the mullahs were in a better position to exert power than were the Tudeh, because while the Tudeh had been outlawed and pursued by the SAVAK, the mullahs were tolerated due to the imperial government's fear of alienating the religious. Because the mullahs were able to disseminate the message of Khomeini, whom they admired even throughout his exile, the people looked on the clergy as the prime mover in the overthrow, and so beginning in April of 1979 and going on for a few years thereafter, the new regime felt comfortable moving against their atheist Tudeh allies, and they did, with a vengeance, imprisoning, torturing, and then killing them.
The people of Iran are not nearly so conservative as their government, but given the stilted constitutional structure of their government, they cannot give voice to their own moderate leanings without courting violent repression.
