Supporters of the Shah never die, they just become Magats and wave flags around in Coolidge Corner

“Ahhh jeeezz.” -Archie (Shoebootie) Bunker

Having said that…..as an exercise of the imagination… what would have happened had the Shaw had not been overthrown (and the revolution not usurped by the totalitarian theocracy) and there was a stable successor in his mold? Like, for instance would there had been a greater degree of equality and universal suffrage by now, or is history ill-satisfied with a revolution, but is conspiring towards a great reformation?

I don’t know. If we can muster the fortitude to stand up to Putin’s nuclear blackmail and give Ukraine stand off weaponry to restore their borders and don’t abandon Israel to be “Coalition of the One” against the Iranian axis…then! then! we may have a future where there is no nuclear saber-rattling. And, who knows, people just may one day breathe free in Iran and elsewhere.

As with Republicans everywhere, there's a wide streak of low-information, lead-chip-eating, irrelevant and hating it losers whose greatest pleasure in life is "owning the libs", by which they mean showing up and acting provocative and imagining that they seriously disrupted someone's day. The MA bunch particularly like showing up in the most liberal areas for these little stunts. They are happiest when they are making life worse for others, and this scratches their itch with little effort and zero risk.

There seems to be some idea that the Israelis are about to overthrow the Islamic Republic and restore Iran's monarchy. The Shah's son, Reza Pahlavi, lives in Egypt and aspires to reclaim his father's throne.