"Rux, this article isn't anti-Shah and anti-Iran, and it's definitely not pro-Islamism, fundamentalism, call it what you will. It attempts to be educational. You don't like it? Why don't you spend the countless hours researching the topic, and write your own damned article. People put work into this: be respectful. 

 The Shah was installed by the CIAthis is common knowledge. Both the administration as well as world-wide academia achknowledge this fact quite openly. Why the hell would the West want an Islamic regime in Iran? Your statement about that made absolutely no sense; if you knew anything about the aims of Western policy at all, you'd realize this.  

 Second, you keep talking about how you young Iranians remember the good ole' days, how good it was in the 60s, how good and free it was under the Shah. First off, it wasn't a bloody democracy, so cut the crap. If you supported the Shah, everything was just peachy; but anyone who'd go and say the slightest thing, publish the least-offensive article in a newspaper about the regime, would meet a swift and grim end. Secondly, if you're the ""young Iranians"" then you weren't there during the revolution, were you? At the very least, you weren't old enough to understand anything. And if you were old enough, then you can't honestly associate yourself with the youth of Iran, any more. I know Iraninas personally; I know both old and young Iranians. And from both age groups I get the same thing: the revolution was a terrible mistake, yes, but educate yourself (EDUCATE, rather than rely on websites and anything you hear online: READ!) on the issue before you start throwing ridiculous accusations such as that. And for God's sake, drop the whole ""We will take back what's ours and bring the Mighty Persian Empire back! Freedom to the People! Fight The machine!"" garbage. It got old in the 90s. 
 Knowledge is power. 
 Cheers, 
 GK. 

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