That first picture is the Shah. While life was pretty good before the revolution, using the friggin’ king as an example is kind of lame.
I went to college with Iranian midshipmen. They were tossed out of the country in March 1980. The next semester some of them came back. The stories they told about life there, and what it took to get out couldn’t be made into a movie because the pussies in Hollywood would think it fantasy.
It opened my eyes to what a shit hole the Middle East is, and how smart people, as a group, can become pretty stupid.
The picture of the Shah’s family is not different than many Iranian families at the time. He’s wearing a modest suit and his wife a modest dress. It is not a display of royal wealth. There is no jewelry, no crowns, no royal insignia. It’s common attire the people wore back then when they dressed up in public.
Iran was not a sh*thole before 1979. It was better than oil-rich Venezuela before Hugo Chavez. People had it good economically, medically, educationally. It was much better than Saudi Arabia or Iraq.
The purpose of the post is to inform that Iranians want to rid themselves of the hellhole they’ve been put under. They are ready to overthrow the Regime as hundreds of them last month gave their lives in protest. That’s not a small thing.
The unrest in Iran is not a small thing but we don’t hear about it in our fake news channels.
The truth of the unrest is getting out via social media. Each day more and more accounts are coming out describing how the Iranian people are ready for another revolution only this time to throw out the Regime and all its network.
The problem they have is they are unarmed. That can be addressed.
Your midshipmen were lucky to get out. The population was eventually put on ice meaning they couldn’t travel far without creating red flags.