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  • i don’t think that a washed out royal surrounded by iranian version of cubans from miami would be very consequential, however if you compare scale of political persecution between pahlavi and islamic republic eras, this makes savak look downright humanitarian, and i don’t think he would be able to make situation worse either. if my calculator and judgement of sources is correct, then 43k dead protesters mean that islamic republic in two days outdid past 100 years of political repression, twice.

    also, islamic republic heavily exaggerated pahlavi’s brutality in their propaganda, especially early on. for example in constitution there’s mention of “60000 martyrs” but even their own revised estimates for 1979 casualties are over 20x lower