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The new Iranian revolution hasn’t died out. It’s only getting started. September 21, 2023. 6 min. Two Iranian girls, not wearing the mandatory hijab, look out over Tehran on Sept. 9.

Supporters of the 1979 revolution hoped to bring a democratic system back to Iran. The Shah was known as a ruthless autocratic leader and used torture and executions to stifle dissent.

The world is witnessing the fruition of a democratic revolution that Ruhollah Khomeini denied 43 years ago when, under a pretense of Islam, he imposed a theocratic dictatorship on the Iranian people.

Obviously, the overwhelming credit for the freedom revolution belongs to the brave people inside Iran, who every day put their lives on the line by courageously speaking out, protesting and striking.

The 116-year-old Persian Constitutional Revolution spawned the country's long tradition of protest, seen in recent demonstrations over cuts to food subsidies.

In 1979, when I was 8 years old, my family fled Iran because of the revolution.Once my parents saw that Iran would be controlled by a theocratic authoritarian regime, they decided not to go back.