Iran’s first post-revolution prime minister, Mehdi Bazargan, reportedly once said that the real leader of the 1979 revolution was not Ayatollah Khomeini but rather the Shah, who united diverse groups of people against him. Today, a somewhat similar dynamic exists: the two individuals arguably most responsible for the opposition’s resilience are not Mousavi and Karroubi, but Ahmadinejad and Khamenei.
据闻伊斯兰革命后的第一任总理迈赫迪·巴扎尔甘曾说，1979年革命的真正领袖并不是霍梅尼，而是当时的国王，因为正是他迫使各种群体最终联合起来一致反对他。而今类似的情况又重现了：最能激发反对派力量的人并不是穆萨维和卡鲁比，而是内贾德和哈梅内伊。