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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.

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.

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.

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.

This revolution has been met with brutal crackdowns, which have resulted in over 700 unarmed protesters being killed by Iranian security forces and upwards of 30,000 protesters arrested and at ...

On the 40th anniversary of the Iranian Revolution in 2019, the streets of Iran were once again filled with resisters, many of whom had participated in street protests since the early 2000s.

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.