Google 1970s Iran vs now. It’s an interesting contrast of how quickly societies can change; and some would argue, not towards the future but backwards.
Google 1970s Iran vs now. It’s an interesting contrast of how quickly societies can change; and some would argue, not towards the future but backwards.
I met this older, cool hippie lady at my old apartment building. She was always wearing the cool hippy style and was a very free spirit. She told me that she got the F out of Iran during the revolution. She hates going back to visit Iran cause she has to wear the head covering and be accompanied by a man, etc. She used to show me a bunch of pics similar to this one, of her and her young friends partying and enjoying life before the religious assholes ruined it all.
Note that she was able to get
. People living like on this photo were not the majority by any measure. Those crowds of poor ignorant religious people yelling “ya hossein” were.
People posting such photos say, of course, what they wanted to say. But westernization of Iran was not too different from what MBS is doing in Saudi Arabia. A monarch’s hobby.
He even was self-confident enough to say in interviews that his oil-powered kingdom with the majority of population still living in middle ages is the future and the western nations are the past.
Idealizing Shah’s Iran is one of the stupid things people do today all the time. I dunno why - to forget that the revolution was supported by the West? Only somehow mojaheds and others such forces turned out to be weaker than Homeini.