Sociologist Chahla Chafiq was a 25-year-old Marxist activist during the 1979 Iranian revolution. Now in exile in France, she looks back on the tensions between socialism, feminism, and anti-imperialism that have roiled Iran’s opposition politics for decades.
Well, there were at least 12,000 communists and Islamist-Marxists left for the Ayatollah to execute. This site's hard on for the theocracy is fucking stupid. There's a version of Iran that's still hostile to western hegemony that doesn't treat women and Kurds like subhuman trash.
i'm not saying anything pro theocracy and idk just because they found some communists under the couch cushions doesn't mean there was much of a Left left