"Many Iranian Americans who loudly support Israel today come from families who were part of Iran’s pre-1979 elite: the upper classes, military officials, and technocrats who lived well under the U.S.-backed Sha
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"Many Iranian Americans who loudly support Israel today come from families who were part of Iran’s pre-1979 elite: the upper classes, military officials, and technocrats who lived well under the U.S.-backed Shah. Their families benefited from a regime that crushed dissent, enriched itself through foreign contracts, and handed Iran’s resources to Western powers—often at the expense of the poor and working class. When the revolution came, they didn’t lose freedom; they lost power. And rather than reckon with that legacy, many rebranded themselves in exile as defenders of “democracy” and “civilization,” aligning with the very imperial structures—like U.S. militarism and Israeli exceptionalism—that once sustained their privilege.
Their support for Israel today isn’t really about Judaism or Middle East peace. It’s about proximity to whiteness, to power, to the West. It’s about choosing sides in the global caste system—aligning with the colonizer over the colonized, with the occupier over the occupied. It’s a refusal to face their own complicity in crimes against humanity, and instead adopt the language of victimhood to protect a familiar hierarchy. Just as the Shah’s regime tortured Iranians in the name of “modernization,” Israel’s violence is often justified in the name of “security.” The parallels aren’t lost—they’re embraced."
From @zionishm (Instagram)
posted by Satish Sharma at
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