welp… look who showed his face: Junior Pahlavi.

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welp… look who showed his face: Junior Pahlavi.

didn't i tell you the fucker was going to coopt the uprising? just so he can supplant the theocracy with his dictatorship.

hopefully Iranians won't be fooled by the nepobaby; but expect his fascist ass to be everywhere in USA oligarchic media.

the fact remains, IRAN IS RUNNING OUT OF WATER.

there is no amount of gold, oil, gas, money that can stop the environmental castrophe triggering their political & economic crisis.

#Iran #fascism

@claralistensprechen5th @blogdiva it’s important to note Pahlavi isn’t putting out statements for Iranians, I suspect a very large proportion of people there don’t give a shit what he says. It’s for the benefit of the USA and other western countries, so that when the time comes to select a palatable leader to sell off their resources he will be top of the list.

@Nicovel0 @claralistensprechen5th @blogdiva Gentle reminder, Iran (Persia) does not have a long tradition of democracy, it does have a long history of kings and emperors. And the last properly elected leader, in 1953, was overthrown by the CIA and British intelligence agencies, for control of the country's oil. They exchanged a dictator/king for a theocracy, and went backwards.

Everyday life under the Shah was better than post-revolutionary Iran. Yes, he was a heavy handed bastard, but there was food, medicine, water, and some freedoms. People's personal lives were not being micromanaged by religious zealots*. How can I say that? I had family there until the revolution, and I saw it personally.

Now the theocracy has wrecked the economy, and the county has run out of water... literally, the reservoirs that provide water to cities are empty! God and prayers won't send you water, you have to manage what you have got.

*let this be a warning about what the Project 2025 people really want.

seriously, just NO. the amount of people killed after 1953 fills ups enciclopedias.

am not here for any liberals rationalizing one dictatorship over another one

@c_merriweather @Nicovel0 @claralistensprechen5th

@blogdiva @c_merriweather @Nicovel0
From a Western PoV it's easy to make the argument that Daddy Pahlavi was an improvement over Iran's long history of kings-of-kings (that's what "Shah" means and yes, the Gospel of Matthew basically calls baby Jesus "Shah"). But it's also a big huge mistake to think that Iran is anything except heavily-majority Shiya Islamic. No amount of Western wishful thinking is going to change that.

---Edited to repeat what one cannot repeat too often: Iranian women are FIERCE! Pahlavi outlawed the wearing of any hijab and the Ayahtollah mandated the wearing of a specific hijab in a specific way or else: bottom line is that nobody gets to tell an Iranian woman what she can or cannot wear, that this amounts to fucking around with Iranian women after which the Find Out part is as fierce as the women are.

@claralistensprechen5th
I am well aware of the power of Iranian women; I have several aunts for whom I have profound respect. I am also looking at the situation from someone who has lived there (me), and still has relatives there.

Yes, they are Shi'ia, but they are also Persian, and know they had a long history before Islam was imposed upon them. They, and I, still celebrate the old Zoroastrian (and likely pre-Zoroastrian) holidays, such as Nou Ruz (vernal equinox), and Shab-e Yalda (winter solstice). Both make so much more sense for me than modern "Christian" holidays.

The mullahs tried to stop the celebrations, and the people simply ignored them. Law, imposed by whatever government, is a cat and mouse game for Persians ("Let's see how much we can get away with, before we get caught"). Persian drivers make the Italians look positively sedate.

Added: During the Covid lockdown, I took two semesters of Persian language class.