The Reality of the 1979 Revolution
The reality of the 1979 revolution is something different. The Islamic Republic Revolution in 1979 succeeded after a year of demonstrations; but did those who came to the streets and protested to achieve the Islamic Republic Revolution and clerical rule ever think about what would happen in the future? Did they think that one day they would lose all the facilities that the Shah had provided them? What was their motivation for this revolution? After the Islamic Republic Revolution succeeded, did they realize their mistake?
The population of Tehran at the time of the revolution was around 4 million people, and until that time the majority of Khomeini’s supporters, despite the false propaganda of imperialist media, did not reach the number of the Shah’s supporters. The people’s most common slogan was “Long Live the Shah.” Despite the sabotage and betrayals of Shapour Bakhtiar who prevented the Shah’s supporters from marching, on February 25, 1979, people came to the streets in support of the Shah, but perhaps it was already too late.
A video from after the revolution has gone viral on social media, showing people’s dissatisfaction with the victory of the Islamic Revolution and the Shah’s departure at that time.
A woman in the demonstration says: The majority of Iranians are supporters of the Shah, but they fear Khomeini’s armed terrorists. The majority of people (the silent majority) have been struck by fear.
In this video, a foreign reporter asks: Is this silent majority supporters of the Shah? An Iranian girl says: Yes, that is the truth. The reporter asks again: Do you want the Shah to return? And the Iranian girl says again: Yes, only the Shah. We want the Shah to return to the country.
Another woman who has just understood the reality cries and says: I want the Shah. She says: I am miserable, I am wretched, I want the Shah (for the honor of Iran and Iranians). The foreign reporter asks her why she wants the Shah? And she answers: Because these clerics will make us wretched. From now on we have no security. The clerics plundered our homes and say everything you have must be given to us clerics. They say the Shah is gone and we are in power now and you are miserable. The clerics drove us out of our own homes with clubs and batons. (Homes that the Shah had given to villagers).
After that, the same silent majority kept quiet out of fear of government mercenaries and fear of losing their lives, but today their children who wanted the Islamic Republic government, after 43 years of being in straits, pressure and suffocation, have opened their mouths and brought their cries for justice to the streets. In this struggle for justice, much blood has been shed and like the 1979 revolution, many families have been bereaved.
Today’s Iran has awakened and conscious youths who are thirsty for freedom and victory. Young people who know they should not remain silent in the face of the crimes of the Islamic Republic regime and before it is too late, have risen to cleanse the land of Iran from corruption, oppression and darkness.
