Monday, 2 March 2026

Freedom and Fear in Iran

The picture on the left is when I visited Iran, the capital Tehran and cultural capital Isfahan, 1974. Under the (alleged) "brutal oppression" of the Shah of Iran.
 
The one on the right is how women are expected to dress today and for the last fifty years. Under the (actual) tyrannical theocrats of Shia Islam.

I remember Iran in 1974. That's what it was like. Even though the Shah of Iran, the Pahlavi dynasty had secret police. Shudder. The fact is, life was then better than it is under the Mullah. 

As Thomas Sowell says: "There are no solutions; only trade-offs". Here the trade off is between a monarchy and a theocracy. Both are less than perfect. So which is better? Clearly the monarch. For all its faults.