But the Iranian revolution holds another lesson for Pakistani liberals: obsessed with evicting the Shah, Iran’s intelligentsia was delusional about their own society and their potential to emerge victorious via an abrupt political upheaval. Once the Shah left, the radical minority that was willing to fight and die for its cause devoured the “moderate majority,” establishing Islamist rule in short order.
但是伊朗革命还给巴基斯坦的自由主义者提供了另一个教训：因为一心想要驱逐国王，伊朗的知识分子妄想他们这个阶层和他们的潜力能够通过一次突如其来的政治骚乱最终走向胜利。当国王下台后，愿意为他们的事业斗争甚至死亡的激进的少数派吞噬了“温和的多数派”，在短时间内建立了伊斯兰主义的统治。