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whynotzoidber t1_j1nmt7u wrote

Reply to comment by morismano in What did the public actually want in the Iranian revolution of 1979? by ReecoElryk

the revolutionaries convinced people shah was compromised by uk/usa.

once they sized power with Khomeini return, Khomeini used the same trick to convince people that revolutionaries are against god and his new government.

Khomeini wasn't afraid to incite his followers to kill something which the shah didn't have it in him to kill his own people, as he had fled.

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morismano t1_j1nogk2 wrote

So people did protest Khomeini but he had them killed which Shah did not do?

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doc_1eye t1_j1o7gic wrote

No, the previous poster lives in a fantasy world. The Shah killed thousands of people. It's why people wanted to get rid of him in the first place. Khomeini managed to stay in power by being bad, but not quite as bad as the Shah

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