My family were collaborators of the Pahlavi regime and forced to flee :( The revolution was started by socialist students and in the power vacuum the Ayatollah was able to guide the chaos to a new government. There is a lesson here for organizing that all leftists should study. I could never see eye to eye with my dad while he was still around to know how he could have worked with such a brutal regime, but he died a right wing American.
I hope some day I'm able to go back and see Iran. The last time I was there I was a baby.
