The people who overthrew the Shah were not the people who ended up in power.  The people who ended up in power assassinated or executed most of the people who overthrew the Shah.

The Ayatollah Khomeini devoured many of his own.  Remember Sadijh Gotzbadei? (sorry for the spelling) He went from Foreign Minister under Khomeini , to President, to executed “traitor”.  I’ve forgotten Khomeini’s first President, who had been with him in Paris, but he was executed, too.

When the Shah abdicated, the new PM was Shahpur Bahktiar, who the Ayatollah deposed and later had assassinated.

As the Soviet October Revolution devoured and killed those democrats who overthrew the Tsar in the February Revolution, so the Islamic Revolution overthrew the democrats who overthrew the Shah.  They are ONLY legitimate because they are in power.

The Iranians had every right to overthrow the US installed Shah in ‘79- any true American would Never Support a Monarchy.
Unfortunaltely they people who seized power didn’t really want to make life better for the people of Iran, Just themselves. So 30 yrs later they too will be toppled.
Frankly I see their ‘Supreme leader’ and their Mullahs as nothing more than our fanatical Evangelical Sect- merely put a turbin and a robe on Hagee, Dobson, Robertson.. and you have the Guardian Council. This is exactly what these heretical traitors dream of - their own supreme authority over the Rights and Freedoms of the American people. the Only Reason Hagee considers the Vatican the Great Whore is because of jealosy and Envy, not religious conviction. Same goes for his rabid rantings regarding pre-emptively striking Iran- Hates to see Clerics with more authority than himself. He has no regard for the Israeli people nor the Jewish community. Hagee,et al, are trying to merely hasten the arrival of the magical ‘Rapture Bus’- Apparently his ‘Friends’ can not exceed 144,000 and they must denounce their own religion and thus rebuke the idea that they are the ‘chosen people’ and concede that title to the so called Evangelical ‘Christians’. Friends like that, who needs enemies.
So if you are baffled why so many people in iran would listen to these self proclaimed and self anointed ‘holy men’- just look at our own culture where slim like Hagee have built Megachurches in their own honor.

The real revolution is on, and it is the beginning of the end for the ayatallohs and their reign of terror.
Histopry does repeat itself: when the people lose their fear of their oppressors is when the oppressors know their days are numbered.

Protesters defy the regime again, and the regime shoots a protester dead on the street in this raw footage from Tehran today.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYaL4mA-bSY&feature=player_embedded

Are the Iranian Election Protests Another US Orchestrated ‘Color Revolution’?

By Paul Craig Roberts

A number of commentators have expressed their idealistic belief in the purity of Mousavi, Montazeri, and the westernized youth of Tehran. The CIA destabilization plan, announced two years ago (see below) has somehow not contaminated unfolding events.

The claim is made that Ahmadinejad stole the election, because the outcome was declared too soon after the polls closed for all the votes to have been counted. However, Mousavi declared his victory several hours before the polls closed. This is classic CIA destabilization designed to discredit a contrary outcome. It forces an early declaration of the vote. The longer the time interval between the preemptive declaration of victory and the release of the vote tally, the longer Mousavi has to create the impression that the authorities are using the time to fix the vote. It is amazing that people don’t see through this trick.

As for the grand ayatollah Montazeri’s charge that the election was stolen, he was the initial choice to succeed Khomeini, but lost out to the current Supreme Leader. He sees in the protests an opportunity to settle the score with Khamenei. Montazeri has the incentive to challenge the election whether or not he is being manipulated by the CIA, which has a successful history of manipulating disgruntled politicians.

http://www.vdare.com/roberts/090619_iran.htm

See also:

Iran Faces Greater Risks Than It Knows

this is the beginning of the end for the brutal regime of the ayatollahs

the crackdown may be effective for the short term, as they usually are when firmly established dictatorships flex their goon squads, but the fissures in the wall will widen, and, like the shah before them, they will be swept from power

ideally they would swing upside down from the overhead wires like Mussolini

You can bet U.S. agents are perpetrating actions which would be deemed illegal in the U.S.

The MSM has been doing its very best to misinform.

Even the BBC has been forced to ‘fess up:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/theeditors/2009/06/what_really_happened.html

see also:

On this page:
http://www.bigsoccer.com/forum/showthread.php?p=17946433

...there is a picture of an Ahmadinejad rally taken before the election.

On this page:
http://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2009/06/reclaiming_their_country.html#comments

...it appears again under the caption “Reclaiming their country”, having been uplifted from The Atlantic:

Interestingly, if such demonstrations had happened in the USA to protest Bush’s first election, you would see the same basic approach that Khoumenie is currently taking.  It all depends on who’s bull is being gored!

As I predicted, Khamanei is now ORDERING the demonstrations to stop and is threatening violent action if the demonstrations persist.

Yeah, he’s one hell of a freedom-fighter, that Ayatollah Khamanei. 

The more he cracks down like China on Tienanmen Square, the clearer it becomes that the election was fixed and stolen to the deep chagrin of all the apologists here.

Everyone knows who is financing Mousavi. The CIA goons. If you read the news last year the DOD even said it was stepping up its internet and undercover activity here. AFter all YOU ARE PAYING FOR IT.

Even simple minded people on the morning news realize this “ginning up” is at the encouragement of Israel. Israel could care less who gets hurt as long as they can get in there and start bloodletting as well.

Didn’t you see the crowds chanting “Death to the UK?” And you say, what “side” are you on? These are Mousavi supporters OR DIDN’T YOU NOTICE?

The American people and the Israeli people are way too stupid to know what is going on here. Mind your own business unless you want to send your OWN children to die in someone else’s country for a stupid emotion. Israel would rather the US young people die for them, or rather, for their greed. Ready?

boggs, June 19 at 12:18 pm wrote:

Actually the blood on the streets is more United States bloodletting.

Uh huh. So this raw video shows US forces, not Khameini’s Basiji gestapo shooting unarmed citizens? And the gunman on the roof with the AK47 firing at the crowd below like shooting fish in a barrel is NOT a Basiji murderer hired and paid by Ahmadinejad and Khameini?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFdzsjg4fIM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AU8_5iSJvXM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=or-1QYKWaPU

I expect the Ayatollah is becoming a bit incensed with all the US meddling from the CIA.
He knows very well who is financing Mousavi.
Actually the blood on the streets is more United States bloodletting.