Iran, 1977, the Marxists and Islamists united to overthrow the Shah.
The moment they won, the Islamists executed every single leftist who helped bring them to power: jailed, tortured, or gone.
The left handed them the revolution and got a bullet for it.
In 1977, Iranian Islamists and leftists joined forces in Paris to bring down the Shah.
Two of my uncles took opposite roads for the same revolution. One was a radical Maoist who went to China to learn to handle a weapon so he could bring down the monarchy. The other went to Paris to study, where he became a radical Khomeinist.
Fresh out of the Maoist camps, my communist uncle moved to Paris in 1978 to join his brother.
Once the clerics had seized total power, they put him and his comrades against the wall of a white-tiled room and executed them. In the following years, thousands of communists who had believed they were using the Khomeinists for their agenda learned how naive they were. The regime sent my family photographs of my uncle’s bullet-riddled body. The family had to pay so-called bullet money before they were allowed to bury him. I found the pictures years later, snooping through my mother’s things.
My zealous uncle went to war, leading one of the units the regime sent into Saddam Hussein’s minefields. The Islamic Republic sent young boys ahead of them as human mine-clearers, plastic keys to paradise dangling from their necks. My uncle stepped on a mine and came home in a small box.
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— Maral Salmassi (@MaralSalmassi) October 25, 2026
This is the real reason the Left is uniting with Islam, and how it’s going to end
“I keep wondering why the left is so obsessed with defending an ideology that would be the first to execute them. Democrats have spent decades fighting for things like women’s rights, and yet they defend countries where women are banned from school, where honor killings happen, and where wives have no protection, or no legal protection from abuse.
They wave pride flags at every parade, and yet they defend countries where homosexuality is punishable by death. So what then exactly does the progressive left and these Islamists have in common?
Because on the surface, they agree on literally nothing, except for one thing: They share the same enemy, and that enemy is the West
And the thing is, neither of them can build what they want while the West still stands. So they’re kind of working together to tear it down first, and figure the rest out later.
The Marxist thinks he’s using the Islamists to do the heavy lifting. The useful idiots vote them in, platform them, defend them, and launder every atrocity as resistance. And what awaits them when the job is done is something history has already shown us.
Iran, 1977, the Marxists and Islamists united to overthrow the Shah. The moment they won, the Islamists executed every single leftist who helped bring them to power: jailed, tortured, or gone. The left handed them the revolution and got a bullet for it”
“But they can’t do that here because nobody’s starving. The thing about socialist revolutions is they need desperation, whether it’s famine or disease, and that’s not America, so they need a different strategy.
Because here’s what the left has been doing in the meantime. They have become a laundering service, and what I mean by that is the West won’t naturally accept an ideology that is openly intolerant. We’re a tolerant society, which is our weakness and our strength.
So every time there’s a terrorist attack, it becomes an act of resistance. Every massacre becomes a natural reaction to imperialism or colonialism or whatever. They don’t defend the ideology directly, they just make the atrocity make sense to you over and over until your moral framework shifts without you noticing.
KGB defector, Yuri Bezmenov, called this demoralization. You don’t need to win a revolution if you can get people to abandon their own values first.
It starts with murdering civilians is wrong. Then it becomes, were those civilians really innocent given the history of colonialism? You don’t need an Islamic conquest by force when you can walk it in through the front door of compassion….
And the left will be the last to realize what they helped build right up until they’re the first against the wall.”
There is literally no other way this ends except exactly how this describes. It’s the same story that’s played out again and again and again
And the crazy thing is, the Islamists don’t even hide this is what they’re doing, they openly say they’re using the Left until enough of them get into power
We have to stop it because if we let liberals bring America down and face an Islamic Revolution, they bring us down with them
— Wall Street Apes (@WallStreetApes) August 18, 2026
