Iran in the 1970s before the Islamic Revolution

Mithridates Page F30 4/15/2009

Mention the word Iran to most people and this image is probably close to what first comes to mind:

 

Older people will remember a vastly different impression of Iran though, the Iran from before the Islamic Revolution. There are a large number of pictures and videos out there that […]

Coptic Christian Children Jailed in Egypt

William Bigelow Breitbart.com Big Peace 4 Oct 2012

No wonder Barack Obama and his Administration wanted Mohamed Morsi to be the president of Egypt; he’s as much of a liar as they are. Two young Coptic Christian boys, ages 9 and 10, have been arrested by Egyptian authorities for “defiling the pages of a Koran.” […]

@MichelleMalkin BLASTS feckless Obama administration over 4 dead Americans in Libya

The Right Scoop 9/12/2012

“These optics suck White House! I mean we have 4 Americans who are dead who were butchered and slaughtered because this administration did not have the foresight to fortify these embassies on the eleventh anniversary of 9/11. And there he is with all of his fanbois and fangirls in Vegas raising […]

Why Was Jumah at the DNC?

Daniel Noe Western Journalism 9/7/2012

Zuhdi Jasser explains…to Glenn Beck…

 

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Morsi courts trouble again; orders two top generals to retire

Rick Moran American Thinker 8/12/2012

Egypt’s President Mohammed Morsi has engineered another dangerous confrontation with the military council that holds most of the power in the country.

On Sunday, he fired the nation’s two top generals, including Field Marshall Hussein Tantawi who heads up the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) — the organization […]

11 February 1979

11 February 2011

Protesters in Tehran, 1979

On this day in 1979, the Ayatollah Khomeini returned to Tehran to a greeting by several million Iranians after the Shah of Iran left for exile in mid-January 1979.

Via Wikipedia:

The revolution was populist, nationalist and later Shi’a Islamic. It was in part a conservative […]

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