From: bavafa@netcom.com (Hooshyar Naraghi)
Subject: The Merits of a Revolution
Organization: Department of Destruction
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 08:17:54 GMT

In article <1992Dec17.174403.3006@rd.hydro.on.ca> nbadie@rd.hydro.on.ca
(Navid Badie) writes:
>
>Well, I do not pretend to be trying to explain anything to anyone,
>or to know who is ignorant and who is knowledgeable. However, if you allow
>me to butt in to your dialogue, I will offer an opinion.

AghA Navid, how about me?  Can I butt in?  I guess it's called butt andar
butt.  I only had one remark about your later comment which I thought to
share.

You had civilizedly and kindly opined:
>Whenever there is a revolution, the revolution tries to protect itself
>by reorganizing the armed forces, first and foremost by removing from
>power those who were sympathetic to the old regime.

Another perspective into the same subject of revolution, or gerdAli
shodan (Amoo, even revolution has something to do with gerdAli), is that
a revolution as we humans have come to understand it in contemporary
history of humankind, and the Iranian version of it was no exception,
inherently desires destruction.  There is no _justification_ or _rational_
to explain it.  It is as is just as water boils at 100 degrees C.

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I have yet to encounter one political revolution that did not DESTROY 
whatever was in its past.  The authors and implementors of any revolution
BY DESIGN 'nAboodiy-e gozashteh rA mitalaband.'  IMHO, whether this army
was on Shah's side or people's side, it was doomed to be destroyed.  And,
many other things had to be destroyed to "protect" the revolution by
not permitting the alleged "power" that you refer to above fall into the
hands of "anti-revolutionaries."

I wish humanity would some day learn that revolutions would not solve any
problems in their respected societies.  The Iranian revolution was one of the
last ones in the chaotic period of 70's amongst the third world nations.  In
80's a new spirit of preservation of the past while opposing the rule of
the oppressor was favored among the people's of the world.  This new concept
took less than a decade to actualize itself in unprecedented yet relatively
peaceful revolutions of the late 80's such as fall of Eastern Europe iron
regimes, South African freedom movement, Burma's continuing freedom fighting
within peaceful measures, and freedom-wanting campaigns of other nations
from the yoke of their tyrrant leaders.

The spirit that I have mentioned above is not a 'khodA dAdi' gift that is
going to sweep the planet, nor will it produce happy-ending revolutions
over night like that of Russia.  On the contrary, IMHO, those nations whose
so called revolutionary leaders are NOT going to take into consideration the
possibility of a peaceful transition will be experiencing the hardest pain
and agony, and in the process make life miserable for their innocent citizens.

The Iranian revolution was not even close to this concept, so I have a hard
time to see any other way it could have flourished.  It was doomed to fall
into the definition of a revolution and it carried all the features of a
real revolution of the 70's kind.  In this context, it HAD to blindly
and without HESITATION proceed with destroying its immediate enemies at
top of which was the army.  And no other revolutionary think tank of the
time thought otherwise either.  I cannot blame them except feel sorry for
them because they proved to be the part of the history of their time.  They
were not ahead of their time.  They could NOT see beyond; they did EXACTLY
what the "just-it-is" revolution would require them to do:  to destroy.  It
was the fashion of the time, if you ask for an analogy.

I cherish the hope that you begin to realize that I am in general in full
agreement with your view point.  The perspective presented here attempts
to state that destroying an army was not a "specially pre-thought" move by
the revolutionary thinkers of the 78.  It was part of the package that we
refer to in recent history as A REVOLUTION!

Happy revolution!

Regards,
Hooshyar F. Naraghi
bavafa@netcom.com
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