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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Looks.like they were actually happy... ( Afghanistan, 70s)[/quote]
You took a picture of women from the educated urban class and swallowed the line that the entire country looked that way.

Women in rural Afghanistan routinely covered.  So did women in Iran outside of educated urban class. [/quote]

So you're point is, let's make all women dress like rural and/or uneducated women?

One of my best friends growing up was Iranian, they fled. Her family was upper middle class, her mother and father both had good jobs. They were very sad about what had happened to their country.[/quote]
My point is that you cannot look at a tiny segment of the population and pretend you know the country. Iranians are religious in their own way.  They don't ALL want to look like your friend.

I'm sure your friend had a very nice life under the Shah.  Millions of working-class people - who suffered from his corruption, bribery, wholesale dissection of the country in the interests of foreign corporation, and unadulterated hedonism - did not.  Homeini would have never come to power had he not had the support of a significant chunk of the population.  The Shah has repressed that population, came down on any expression of political dissent, and relied on his cronies and Americans to keep him in power. He lost.  A nobody, planted by a foreign country, with no talent but that for conspicuous consumption - you thought he was going to last?  Now someone is feeding the line of "very sorry what happened to the country" and you believe it?[/quote]

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