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Oh yes, remember how the Left was totally dead by the time of the Iranian Revolution, and definitely not a key part of the coalition until the Islamists turned on them and gleefully murdered them? Good times!
Amazing how MLs will simp for literal anti-communist theocrats and the stripping of women's rights because "All enemies of the US deserve (un)critical support!"
I don't think their comment was pro-Iranian-post-revolutionary-government. The Shah was awful, was installed by the CIA, and did kill political opponents. US-backed governments don't typically fall to revolutions, so a lot of people must have been upset to have enough of them to manage that. It's generally accepted that what came after the revolution was worse, but it's not just nutters, Stalinists and tankies that recognise it was also bad before, and got that way because the British wanted oil.
As far as I'm aware (which is a bit more than average as I'm British with an Iranian grandparent), both of you posted correct things. If the Shah hadn't started killing anyone who disagreed with him, it would have been harder for the religious extremists to kill the rest. It's not like you can ever assassinate all your political opponents as everyone knows other people, and those people don't like their friends and family being murdered.
I don't have the confidence you do. I don't remember if this specific tankie has expressed this view before, but I have seen and argued with many tankies who are outright supportive of the Islamic Republic.
You sure about that? I can name quite a few.
The Shah was, of course, awful. He was a murderer, an authoritarian who squandered his nation's wealth, and had no one to blame for his fall but himself and his own tyrannical, torturing regime.
But coming in on a post which is about "Theocracy can reverse women's rights quickly" and putting it down to propaganda of the Shah is, itself, nuts. It's beyond a whataboutism, it's downright deflection and borderline denialism.