Sheila Vand Instagram – One of the many tragic parts of the story is that Iranian women were very instrumental in the 1979 Iranian People’s Revolution that deposed the Shah, but they became the biggest victims as soon as Khomeini hijacked it.
To this day, it is referred to as the Islamic Revolution and it has its very own robust army called the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corp (IRGC) #IRGCterrorists .
But it was called the Iranian Revolution first. It was considered a democratic revolution until Khomeini’s Islamic Regime hijacked it. It was the Iranian People’s Revolution.
Under the Shah, Iranian women had achieved some of the most progressive women’s rights in the world at the time. Iran was a socially liberal, modern place. But the Shah was way too politically controlling/economically exploitative and way too involved with foreign powers. The USA and UK had put the Shah in power after a coup, and America’s CIA created a secret police/intelligence agency called SAVAK to ensure that he would stay in power. At all costs. No matter what Iranian people wanted. The SAVAK was such a viscous organization that it assassinated one of its own founders at some point. Many Iranians were imprisoned and killed by them. I’ll tell the story another time, but my grandfather spent over a year in the Shah’s prisons just for unionizing for workers rights and better wages. Many of his friends were executed. 🕊️🕊️🕊️
So it didn’t take long for the Iranian people to not want to be controlled anymore by a literally British-appointed, made-up King (Reza Pahlavi was an Iranian soldier that the UK installed. He didn’t come from a “royal” dynasty or lineage) and it didn’t take long for the Iranian people to not want to be controlled anymore by Western imperialism. They came together and took down Reza Pahlavi and his CIA-created/CIA-trained SAVAK.
But then Europe said “our turn!” and gave us something unimaginably worse: Khomeini. (more on that another time)
It took 54 years to take a violent monarchy down.
It took 44 years to take an extremely violent, fascist regime down.
But this time we won’t f*ck up the handoff. 😤 Iranians deserve to finally have their own say in their own damn country. | Posted on 11/Mar/2023 01:15:56
