On day 10 of the Iranian revolution, the Ayatollah has fled

Murrmurr said:
Thanks, Happyflower.

edit: Well that didn't take long. No, the Ayatollah is not on his way to Mar-a-Lago. In fact, he has threatened to bomb Mar-a-Lago ....while it's occupied.
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Frank, I think you misread HP’s post. She read that the Shah was going to Mar-a-Lago. I believe he’s lived in the US since he was a kid. I remember the invasion. He’s living a good life in Texas? so you’d wonder why he’d want to go back to mayhem. My memory could be very wrong on all of this.
 

IMO the Shah was no saint, he controlled immense personal wealth and took much of it with him when he went into exhile.

The Shah, with the backing of the United States, did attempt to westernize Iran and perhaps went a bit too far too fast.

I’m not sure about his son but he has been able to live very comfortably on his family’s vast wealth.
 
I don't think he actually fled the country, he has stayed out of sight for quite a while. It is looking like the resolve of protestors is moving the needle.
 

Iran’s supreme leader sets stage for harsher crackdown as protest movement swells​


Iran’s supreme leader has vowed that authorities will not back down in the face of a rapidly growing protest movement, setting the stage for an intensified violent crackdown on the second day of a nationwide internet shutdown.

Protests have raged in cities and towns across the country in recent days, posing a threat to the authority of the regime, which has been significantly weakened since the last large protest movement in the country in 2022. Another round of demonstrations was called for Friday night.


In his first speech since demonstrations started on 28 December, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei described protesters as “vandals” and “saboteurs” and accused them of working on behalf of foreign agendas.

Protesters were “ruining their own streets to make the president of another country happy … because he said he would come to their aid”, Khamenei said, referring to Donald Trump who has threatened American intervention in Iran if authorities kill protesters.
www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/jan/09/iran-supreme-leader-harsher-crackdown-protest-
 
Paco Dennis said:

Iran’s supreme leader sets stage for harsher crackdown as protest movement swells​


Iran’s supreme leader has vowed that authorities will not back down in the face of a rapidly growing protest movement, setting the stage for an intensified violent crackdown on the second day of a nationwide internet shutdown.

Protests have raged in cities and towns across the country in recent days, posing a threat to the authority of the regime, which has been significantly weakened since the last large protest movement in the country in 2022. Another round of demonstrations was called for Friday night.


In his first speech since demonstrations started on 28 December, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei described protesters as “vandals” and “saboteurs” and accused them of working on behalf of foreign agendas.

Protesters were “ruining their own streets to make the president of another country happy … because he said he would come to their aid”, Khamenei said, referring to Donald Trump who has threatened American intervention in Iran if authorities kill protesters.
www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/jan/09/iran-supreme-leader-harsher-crackdown-protest-
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The soon-to-be former supreme leader also vowed to erase Israel from the map and have the current US pres annihilated, one way or another.

Crack down with what? Most of his police joined the revolution, and his military equivalent to a Nat'l Guard seem to be nowhere around after the number of protesters surged to millions in a single city yesterday (our yesterday).

That guy is cooked. He will die a horrible death in Iran, no doubt.
 
Jules said:
Like lots of these old guys, they know their natural biological end is near. They don’t care how they go out. It may make them feel like they earned a good place in history.
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They better hope there's no heaven or hell cuz we know where they're all going if there is, as well as all their 'yes men' that support & encourage them.
 
Does this mean that all the Iranians/Persians who have found sanctuary in Europe will now return home? They will have first-hand experience of living in a Western society so will hopefully take a more enlightened attitude with them.
 
Lavinia said:
Does this mean that all the Iranians/Persians who have found sanctuary in Europe will now return home? They will have first-hand experience of living in a Western society so will hopefully take a more enlightened attitude with them.
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Over 40 years ago, Iran was the land of enlightenment in the Middle East, with religious and ethnic diversity, a free market capitalist economy, and individual freedom. Problems arose when Iranian Shah, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, was accused of autocracy, weakening the economy, and social injustice. That enabled an Islamic revolution, and over the following 10-20yrs, Iran evolved (or devolved) into a strict fundamentalist nation renamed The Islamic Republic.

Millions of Iranians fled, primarily to the west, to have a way of life they were accustomed to.
And, yes, millions say they will return to Iran when this is over and the constitutional monarchy is re-established, though many prefer a democratic republic.
 
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Murrmurr said:
I'm not posting a link to a live video because there's political content and violence, but to watch a live-stream of the Iranian revolution, it's on a channel called Goldie Ghamari with the title Iran Revolution Live. Today's date.
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Thank you for the link. I'm watching her channel for two days. The mainstream media in Germany don't report anything. Total silence. In fact the German President Steinmeier congratulated the dictatorial mullah regime in Iran on its 40th anniversary of the Islamic Republic in 2019.
 
Aunt Bea said:
IMO the Shah was no saint, he controlled immense personal wealth and took much of it with him when he went into exhile.
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That's true. His behavior is what sparked the 1st of many protests.
Aunt Bea said:
I’m not sure about his son but he has been able to live very comfortably on his family’s vast wealth.
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Iranians call his son, Reza Pahlavi, the crowned prince. He promises Iranians an ethnically united Iran, separation of religion and state, a free-market capitalist economy, and a new constitution by and for the people, when he returns as leader of Iran.

It'll be far from easy. Just a few reasons: there are several ethnic groups in Iran, not all of them joined this revolution, and I expect some of them will demand autonomy; there's bad history between Iran and some of it's bordering countries; there's crude oil. Add the Pahlavi Dynasty's spotty history and it's going to be challenging to say the least. (imo)
 
The middle eastern part of the world has been described as an area plagued by turmoil in every history book I've ever read. IF some form of new government were to finally arise, how long will it last?
 
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