(01-07-2020, 04:56 PM)mikesez Wrote:

(01-07-2020, 03:45 PM)jagibelieve Wrote: Not really true.  They were at one time adopting the western culture (specifically Iran) before a hostile regime took the country over.  The people don't "cling" to a religion, rather a certain religion is forced upon them.

Teheran had discos and girls in miniskirts. The shah focused his money and attention there.  The other areas weren't "adopting" anything, they didn't have the money.  They were told by the Shah that if they didn't follow his lead (Western), they would be under Soviet (Eastern) domination instead, and that would be worse. Towards the end, the Shah could point east to Afghanistan and show his people how bad things would be with Soviets in charge. Remember, a lot of the elite in Afghanistan speaks Persian. Iranians heard some of that first hand.
But the Ayatollahs, by the mid 1970s, were getting a lot of traction with a slogan, "Not west! Not east! Islamic Republic!" 
So a religious revival started in the smaller cities based on this slogan and it reached the capital.

Somewhat true, but has nothing to do with the premise of this thread.  The U.S. didn't kill the "second in command" and did not "provoke a war" with Iran.  We eliminated a terrorist that not only orchestrated an attack on our embassy in Iraq, but also attacked ships in the Persian Gulf.  There is also intelligence that indicates that he was planning further attacks against us and our interests.

Any way that you and your democrat party want to spin it, it was the right thing to do.

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