Generational Iran

If you were in your 20s in Iran....in the 1950s....you sat there and watched the 1953 Iranian coup d'état (the 28 Mordad coup) unfold.  It basically involved the overthrow of the democratically elected Prime Minister, Mohammad Mosaddegh, and the strengthening of the monarchical rule of Shah Mohammad Reza.  You were told things would get 'better'.

This rigged up the Shah to be the focus of power (for the next 26 years).  Oddly, the common belief is that the Brits and Americans arranged the coup, and for all negativity over the 26 years....it's this group getting the four-star blame.

So  1979 and the Islamic Revolution comes around....you are in your late 50s, and  the Shah leaves....for the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini to run things.  You are told....things will get better.

Twelve month pass....Iran now engages with Iraq on a war.  Total dead by 8th year of the war for Iran?  Minimum of 200,000......some suggest on up to 750,000.

What you notice by 1990....just about every single component of the government of Iran....is 'favored-son' status of Islamic guys....along every department of the government. 

You pass on in the 1990s, with your son (probably in his 50s)....seeing incompetence and corruption as key features of the local, state, and federal government.

By 2000, Tehran is suggesting there's a water issue....but they can't seem to find the solution, and grasp of some way of paying for it.

With all the oil being sold....it doesn't make any sense on how the general public has become.

Fantastic sums of money now being spent on terror operations (throughout the Middle East), nuke energy (mostly weapons development), and corruption.

By 2010....you are nearing the age of 70....about to pass away, and your son nears age 50....being told that things will get better.

This grandson....age 50....2010....quietly moves profits/currency out of Iran....no longer believing in anything  improving.  Iranian banks are in continual trouble.....no currency to loan out.

2026 arrives....you are passing on, and the great grandson of the original guy told things will get better....is now around age 50.

You are depending on some guy named Trump to dispense the solution....and the return of the Shah (his son and grandson).

All this cashflow from 1979 to today....where did it all go?  No one really knows.

Did anything ever get better?  No.

If you start in 1979.....roughly five-million Iranians exited the country...probably all admitting things got better (after they left).