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Khabeh Amrika-ee

I have no idea where you get your warped analysis from, but I have to admit that it certainly does makes me laugh...

Those imagined "Anti-Shah" banners are in every picture...we just cannot see them...

Seriously buddy, the knowledge one (you) gains from Wikipedia makes one (you) a pundit...just viewing your posts cements that theory...

Do we know what freedom means?

We may have struggled for it but still do not understand the meaning of the concept of freedom.

Ali P is absolutley right in saying that these demonstrations were not against the establishment. For all we know the Shah was much less powerful than Mossadegh in the period leading to 19th August 1953. The real establishment, in an unconstitutional way, was the government of the day.

FR

110 years in struggle for freedom

I think the Iranian nation is the only nation that has struggled for such a long time for democracy. I am hopeful that we get there some day and meanwhile, let's not loose hope, let's not lose our heritage and continue our reach for the democracy that we have been longing for 110 years.

Nice Pics

I enjoyed looking at these pictures showing the resolve of the masses.  It also made me sad as it reminded me how things havn't changed.  The clergy looking out for themselves, the mindless thugs ignorant of the consequences of their actions, the armed forces serving a master they do not know and a people in bondage, poverty and pain.  

But not for a moment do I doubt people shall overcome. 

American Dream

I don't know about that.

I could not see one banner against the Shah in these pics. 

Remember,this is 1953, way before SAVAK and all the other reasons that eventually turn the nation against the Shah. 

Ali P.

They were anti-establishment because photo number 15 has a banner thhat says that they want there want freedom for their country.  Who didn't want freedom for Iran?  The Shah.  The Shah was the establishment. 

Photo number 4 has a banner has two men wielding a hammer at what appears to be an englishmen.  What is the hammer a symbol of?  Hard core communism.  The hammer and sickle were always a symbol of hard core communism.

Picture number 3, another man with a hammer in his hand.  

Look at this site, same workers with hammers and hats... photos from communist North Korea:

//marcnorthkorea.blogspot.com/2007/05/party-f...

In 1953 people were united against the head of state, the Shah.

Today, people are protesting against an Iranian President that has no power.  If Iranian President Ahmadinejad has as much power granted to him as Prime Minister Mossadegh by the Iranian constitution, Tel Aviv would be a city in Iran.

People protesting Ahmadinejad are wasting their time.  He has no power what so ever according to the Iranian Constitution.

Since 1979 the world has been fixated on the President of Iran.  It is like being fixated on a hole in a glazed donut.   fixation on nothing will get one no where.

Not Green but Red

These people were struggling for their living conditions, for their livelihood. The last thing on their minds was what is on the minds of today's "Green" protesters.

Both "anti-establishemt" protests are legitimate. "Man/woman cannot live by bread alone."

Anti-establishment?

I am just curious.

What makes you say the protest was "anti-establishment"?

Any particular slogar or banner?

Pro-worker banners made me think they demonstratins were Tudeh-organized, but I could be wrong.