"DEATH TO THE SHAH!"

[WeDidIt]

It's been thirty years since protesters screamed "DEATH TO (Leader of Iran)" in the streets of Tehran.

There's no going back now.

[Faygo Kid]

1. Remember it well.

Know exactly where I was (on the way to work) when the helicopter rescue crashed and burned.

And that's the way it is.

[kdmorris]

2. My father was over on a ship in the gulf when that happened

Scariest day of my life (I was only in 3rd grade), until my mother explained that there would be no reason that my father would be on a helicopter and he was most likely fine.

[donco6]

3. I remember going to school with Iranian students in the 70s.

They were very focused on the Shah. They never spoke of anything else.

[janx]

4. I remember that too!

And that's a good part of the reason that I'm so interested in what's going on today. Another good part is that I occasionally teach Iranian students (two females within the last couple of semesters).

So these protesters, from what I can reasonably gather, are the older protesters, and their KIDS (roughly the age of mine) are the younger ones.

We're looking at history. And although our government can't come out and say it, we want these protesters to get the democratic republic that they finally deserve.

[donco6]

6. Yes. n/t

[ProgressiveProfessor]

11. I remember the chants...the Shah is a US puppet, down with the Shah

They got run off of the campus where I was. They were all outsiders and should have known better than to instigate during engineering midterms.

[lunatica]

5. Irianian students in the US would protest the Shah with hoods over their heads

Because of the brutal retaliations from the Shah. It was truly a horrible regime. He was a big believer in torture from the stories I heard. They hatred for him was profound. And when the Ayatollah went back to Iran and took over they weren't happy about that either. They really wanted their Democracy back. All these years later they still want that.

[Doc_Technical]

7. I remember about 32 years ago

the was a segment on 60 Minutes about the Shah of Iran
and his repressive secret police called SAVAK.
In this segment, it talked about Tehran
and other cities being quite different
from the rest of the country.
It looks like we have come full circle in Iran.

[Odin2005]

8. Now they are chanting "DEATH TO THE DICTATOR"

Khamene'i and Ahmadinejad better make escape plans if they want to live.

[Posteritatis]

10. And occasionally "death to Khamenei" by name

That takes guts there.

Ahmadinejad's already out of the country in Russia though, no? (That brave, brave warrior..)

[obliviously]

13. It's not going to happen

most of the people of Iran don't have guns. When the government decides it has had enough they will mow the people down in the streets and they will go back to life as normal.

[timeforpeace]

9. Yeah, these folks remember how it's done. It's come full circle for dinnerjacket.

[AllentownJake]

12. Educated populace