Forty-seven years after 1979, the Islamic Revolution of Iran remains one of the most explosive and most defamed events in contemporary history. It was not merely the overthrow of a corrupt monarchy. It was the rupture of a people with an imperialist system that treated Iran as a strategic colony.

For this reason, the Islamic Revolution does not belong to the past. It continues today, waged through sanctions, sabotage, psychological warfare, and permanent attempts at “regime change”.

To understand this continuity, it is necessary to go back to 1953. The Anglo-American coup against President Mohammad Mossadegh destroyed a democratic and nationalist experiment in order to reinstall the Shah Pahlavi as guardian of Western interests in the Persian Gulf.

Iran was turned into a US military base, a captive market for the West, and a laboratory of political repression through SAVAK, the political police trained by the CIA and “Israel”. This was the cradle of the authoritarianism that the Revolution demolished.

In this context, Imam Khomeini emerges. His opposition was not moralistic, but structurally anti-colonial. He denounced the “White Revolution” as subordinate modernisation, rejected the capitulation law that rendered foreign military personnel untouchable before Iranian justice, and condemned the Shah’s alliance with “Israel”.

Imprisoned and exiled, he became the voice of a silenced nation, a voice that crossed borders through cassette tapes, sermons, and pamphlets, creating a political consciousness impossible to suffocate.

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