An Iran Air flight attendant before the Iranian Revolution of 1979
Wednesday, 12 Mar 2025
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Dang, look how wide those stairs are!
Why can’t I vote for comments in this thread?
Thank the CIA (Operation AJAX) for what we have today. They toppled democracy in Iran:
https://www.npr.org/2019/01/31/690363402/how-the-cia-overthrew-irans-democracy-in-four-days
They didn’t like that Iran’s democratically elected leader wanted to nationalize the country’s oil industry.
So then the CIA toppled their democracy and installed a ruthless dictator. The people eventually got fed up with this and Islamists overthrew the CIA puppet.
They don’t teach this in most US public schools for a reason.
Here we go again 🤦♂️
Whats with the massive influx of pro-Shah posts here and in r/Historyporn the last weeks? Looks like a coordinated effort.
Lol, your profile bio OP while simping for a shah who was put there by colonialists. Put down the che t-shirt and go read a book about him. Put in power by the UK and France.
Another Iran photo of the 70s today. It’s good farming tho
It blows my mind that nobody in these comments is talking about the Shah of Iran or the [1953 coup](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat) that installed him. Yes the Shah did a bunch of modernization, but he was also a dictator installed by the US and UK because the previously elected guy tried to nationalize Iranian oil.
Maybe one lesson to take from this is that we shouldn’t overthrow democratically elected governments in favor of propping up autocratic regimes. Everyone in the comments here is judging the 79 revolution but thinking things were at all okay after 1953 just because of a photo of a flight attendant showing some skin is myopic AF.
Religion sucks.
When the internet is flooded with “X place before Y revolution or event” it is a signal of a near bombing campaign.
Americans should get ready because the GOP/Trump is the “Christian” version of what happened in Iran in 1979.
Weird how the comment arent locked. The bot said it locked mine on my post because it was about the middle east. Guess Palestine is in the middle east but not IRAN
every time I see pre-1979 Iran astroturfing I buy Raytheon calls
The reality of the “nice pictures from Iran before the revolution” is that only a small percentage of society supported this. The country as a whole was still very conservative. Officially secular, but very religious as a whole which made it fairly easy for the Islamists to take control and enforce their laws later…
Hilarious how OP is ‘anti-war’. What a joke. Easiest give away that this troll account is normalizing conflict with Iran.
In 20 years time, we will see the same about the US the way it’s been going.
What is the opposite of a revolution? Because that’s what happened. A hyper-regression?
Religion is not that great…
It can happen here @Americans.
I really do wonder if all the people whose hearts are bleeding for a Christo-fascist America understand at any level that what happened in Iran will be the endgame of Christo-fascism.
Another propaganda post.
And yes, religion sucks. You know what? ALL religions sucks. Im talking about your all loving christian god too.
Wow beautiful
“Look guys, here’s another photo of life for a very small subsection of people in Iran before the revolution!”
Reddit loves passing these around with zero understanding of what it was actually like. Almost no one lived in the modernized, western utopia everyone thinks existed before 79. The Revolution happened because this was the experience of a very small, select few. The vast majority saw Western interference as responsible for their social ills, creating a decadent, anti-Iranian elite out of touch with common people. A religious revival was seen as a force for austerity, a return to community, and throwing off imperial, monarchist dictatorship.
Yea but who backed and instigated the revolution from the west?
I feel like this is a warning… to American women.
Why oh why would they choose this after multiple brutally crushed attempts at democracy and how exactly does an unpopular religious organisation get loads of money and the addresses of the much more popular socialists in a country under heavy western surveillance that has a border with the Soviet Union during the Cold War. Its a complete mystery.
Ah so today is Iran before day ahah
Gotta love the “religion of peace” that seemingly can’t just leave people to have their own peace.
It is so sad to see, happening slowly to other countries as well.
Women should be equal no matter where they live, should be able wear what they want, do what jobs they want etc.
order through chaos
*devolution
I was confused as to what a Niohberg was until I realized it’s a watermark from a social media handle.
cry more guys Lol
If it’s an airplane why is it called Iran?
The “look these easterners used to be more westernized” cringe. 😂
The fact that young socialists defend the “Iranian revolution” baffles me
“Revolution”
Humans can be brainwashed into anything! I hope Iran can have its freedom one day!
why don’t you accept differences?