Khomeini and the Iranian Revolution of 1979 is one of history’s most brutal lessons in political betrayal.
The revolution was not only carried by Islamists. It was a broad coalition. Leftists. Marxists. Intellectuals. Nationalists. All united by one thing - they wanted the Shah gone.
And Khomeini let them do the work.
He waited. He let all the other groups help overthrow the Shah. And then - once power was won - he systematically began to eliminate all his former allies.
The leftists and Marxists who had fought by his side were the first to end up in the prisons and at the execution lines.
The Tudeh Party - Iran’s Communist Party - was completely wiped out.
The Mojahedin-e Khalq - left-wing Islamists - who had fought against the Shah were declared enemies and massacred.
The bitter point:
The leftists helped build the prison they ended up in themselves.
This is exactly the same pattern we see in the West today - where leftists defend an ideology that would kill them for their values.
History repeats itself.
And those who refuse to learn it…are already building their own prison.