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US_FixNotScrewitUp t1_iyadeiv wrote

Thank goodness they don’t have the US backed Shah anymore and enjoy individual freedoms now. /s

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Automatic_Flight_659 t1_iyahha9 wrote

Well, he wasn’t a religious nut, but his secret police kept the prisons and torture chambers full too.

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x31b t1_iyay8ga wrote

And when the mullahs took over, they kept and expanded that same secret police.

Source: last paragraph of the Wikipedia article on SAVAK.

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MilhouseVsEvil t1_iyann7o wrote

Yeah the individual freedoms of the elite and urban class were all that mattered and that's what brought the Shah down. You think the farmers and working class care about individual freedoms when they are starving and burying their children? The Islamic Revival got a free pass to victory.

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