To this day you see people blaming the Shah for the rise of the ayatollahs.
They still do not understand that he fought on two fronts holding the communists and the ayatollahs at bay his entire adult life.
Or they do understand and hate him for it.
“They still do not understand that he fought on two fronts holding the communists and the ayatollahs at bay his entire adult life.”
Exactly right. However the liberals always try to rewrite history. Jimmy Carter takes the full blame for this.
You’re right. The Shah imprisoned Communists and Islamic Fundamentalists who were terrorists. There were groups like MKO/MEK and Islamists groups detonating bombs inside of Iran. It was Iran’s war on terror but the Carter Administration saw it as something entirely different.