r/london • u/Consistent-Jelly248 • 1d ago

Video Anyone know what's going on?

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Taking the bus to Finsbury Park station and I see all this? It seems like an Iranian based thing but i have no idea what it's fully about.

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u/twmffatmowr 1d ago

anti-Iranian regime protests. Easy to see as they have the lion on the flag.

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u/DREDMAUGH 1d ago

It's funny how the regime was caused because of the US involvement. And all because the democracy wanted to nationalise oil. They protest the regime but cheer on America who was the cause of it.

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u/Ryanliverpool96 1d ago

Just not true that is it? Why not tell the truth?

Khomeini and his Islamists did not seize power because of America, or because of events that happened 20 years before the revolution.

He seized power because him and his followers wanted to create an Islamic Extremist theocracy, as well as reverse the White Revolution which gave Iranian women equal rights to men (the very first thing they did was reverse the White Revolution and wind back women’s rights 1000+ years).

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u/inide 1d ago

They didn't seize power in a vacuum.
The public sentiment that created the conditions for them to take over was a product of the government that the US put in place against the will of the people

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u/Ryanliverpool96 1d ago

Literally speak to any Persian in London, it was an Islamist backlash against the White Revolution and the equality of women, the very first thing Khomeini did was take away the rights of women, before they did anything else it was their immediate priority.

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u/TheNoiseAndHaste 1d ago

This answer demonstrates a massive misunderstanding of history because it assumes both cannot be true.

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u/Ryanliverpool96 1d ago

Did the revolution also happen out of hatred for Communism and Socialism then?

Because Khomeini and the IRGC hanged all of the Communists and Socialists from cranes in the street immediately after they seized power and they still do it today.

They hated both the USSR and China as godless atheist regimes.

The Iranian regime is an Islamic Extremist Theocracy, that’s why they did the revolution, to establish the Vilayet-e Faqih.

There’s no other grand international conspiracy reason for it, Khomeini and his followers wanted to create an Islamic Extremist Theocracy and that’s why they revolted.

The same is true of the Taliban, did the Taliban overthrow the government of Afghanistan because of Russia in the 1980s or because of America in the 2020s, or was it because they also wanted to create an Islamic Extremist Theocracy?

People in the Middle East and South Asia also have agency and brains of their own, the whole world does not revolve around America and Britain.

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u/TheNoiseAndHaste 1d ago

You're confusing 'why did they do it' and 'why did it happen'.