Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi vs Ayatollah Khomeini

[Hifly]

Anyone with intelligence (and who doesn't have some deep underlying religious conviction which prevents them from voting for a secularist) will vote for Pahlavi. Especially since this forum cares about LGBT rights. And anyone who identifies as left-wing should be ashamed to vote for Khomeini.
 

[Hifly]

Pahlavi was better even though that isn't saying much.

I've done a lot of research on women in Iran, and Khomeini is one of the worst things that ever happened to them.  He was pretty much a monster.

Indeed - Pahlavi's support for and provision of Women's Rights is one of the reasons as to why so many uneducated and delusional folk joined the Islamic Revolution. The Pahlavi dynasty provided for, inter alia, the expansion of the electoral law to provide for full universal suffrage and widespread educational opportunities were implemented for women (not to forget the abolition of the veil).

[Hifly]

The Shah obviously. Though obviously the correct option in 1979 was Mansoor Hekmat.

What about Shapour Bakhtiar?

[Hifly]

It pains me to watch the manner in which Iran has fallen to the clerical dogs and as a result of which so much development that was happening and could have continued to progress, both social and economic, has been prevented.

Who on earth voted for Khomeini in this poll?