He failed to legitimize the government that has been ruling the country since 1979…?
Presumably this website feels the Pahlavi dynasty, which was installed and backed by foreign powers and also lasted about 50 years, was the last legitimate government.
You don’t have to support theocracy to recognize the absurdity of claiming that a government that’s been in charge for 50 years, and is recognized around the world, is somehow illegitimate.
He failed to legitimize the government that has been ruling the country since 1979…?
The monarchy system of the Shah lasted 2500 years. Not sure what the point it.
You don’t have to support theocracy to recognize the absurdity of claiming that a government that’s been in charge for 50 years, and is recognized around the world, is somehow illegitimate.
It is illegitimate as a democracy and government that represents its own people. People are protesting the fakeness of the election by not voting.
Iranians abroad are like Cubans. They have a psychopathic hatred for the government that overthrew the ancien régime.
The Supreme Dictator regime is in most ways worse than the Shah. The Shah didn’t make women wear ridiculous clothes and arrest people for making dancing videos about being happy.
No one here is debating that there is some hidden upside to theocracy. They’re bad, we get it.
His point though, is that much like the Miami Cubans, the Iranian exiles that fled after the overthrow of the Shah, tend to be part of the old ruling class that had been disempowered. At least, the most vocal ones.
Also, just like Batista, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, was enabled and backed by Western powers, before revolutionaries overthrew him and ended his dynasty.
I fed this article through google translate and it was just a picture of Netanyahu pointing and saying “hey look, over there”!
I know. I stubbed my toe this morning, must have been because of Israel. Also the office coffee wasn’t that great and as a drank the burnt cheap brown water I asked myself why Israel did this to me.
We are the same. Twinsies!