# Iranian Revolution: A Warning to American College Students - Original post: https://www.twitter.com/i/status/2075033974775165302 - Source account: [@sheilanazarian](https://x.com/sheilanazarian) - Source language: English - Duration: 3:00 - Published: 2026-11-05 - Canonical URL: https://www.translate.mom/transcript/XC9oQ7ugofcE/en/iranian-revolution-a-warning-to-american-college-students ## Transcript [0:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/XC9oQ7ugofcE/en/iranian-revolution-a-warning-to-american-college-students) When I speak to you about revolution, I am not speaking from a textbook. [0:04](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/XC9oQ7ugofcE/en/iranian-revolution-a-warning-to-american-college-students?t=4) I am speaking about the revolution that stole Iran. [0:08](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/XC9oQ7ugofcE/en/iranian-revolution-a-warning-to-american-college-students?t=8) I'm speaking about the revolution that forced my family to leave our home and everything my parents spent a lifetime building. [0:18](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/XC9oQ7ugofcE/en/iranian-revolution-a-warning-to-american-college-students?t=18) I'm speaking about the revolution that turned one of the oldest civilizations in the world into a prison for women, a torture chamber for dissidents, and the leading state sponsor of terrorism. [0:31](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/XC9oQ7ugofcE/en/iranian-revolution-a-warning-to-american-college-students?t=31) And tonight, I'm here to tell you something that may make some people feel uncomfortable. [0:36](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/XC9oQ7ugofcE/en/iranian-revolution-a-warning-to-american-college-students?t=36) I have seen this movie before, and I know how it ends. [0:41](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/XC9oQ7ugofcE/en/iranian-revolution-a-warning-to-american-college-students?t=41) In 1979, the Shah of Iran was overthrown by an alliance that should never have made sense. [0:48](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/XC9oQ7ugofcE/en/iranian-revolution-a-warning-to-american-college-students?t=48) The Islamists joined forces with the Marxists and socialists. [0:53](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/XC9oQ7ugofcE/en/iranian-revolution-a-warning-to-american-college-students?t=53) Think about that. Sound familiar, huh? The leftists believed religion was backwards. [0:59](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/XC9oQ7ugofcE/en/iranian-revolution-a-warning-to-american-college-students?t=59) The Islamists wanted religious rule. The leftists claimed to support women's liberation. [1:05](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/XC9oQ7ugofcE/en/iranian-revolution-a-warning-to-american-college-students?t=65) The Islamists wanted to control how women dress, how they behave, and where they could go. [1:11](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/XC9oQ7ugofcE/en/iranian-revolution-a-warning-to-american-college-students?t=71) The leftists talked about sexual freedom. [1:14](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/XC9oQ7ugofcE/en/iranian-revolution-a-warning-to-american-college-students?t=74) The Islamists would build a regime that terrorized and murdered gay people. [1:19](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/XC9oQ7ugofcE/en/iranian-revolution-a-warning-to-american-college-students?t=79) They had almost nothing in common except for two things. [1:23](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/XC9oQ7ugofcE/en/iranian-revolution-a-warning-to-american-college-students?t=83) They hated Israel and America, and they wanted to bring the regime down. [1:31](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/XC9oQ7ugofcE/en/iranian-revolution-a-warning-to-american-college-students?t=91) My family lived through what happens next. [1:35](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/XC9oQ7ugofcE/en/iranian-revolution-a-warning-to-american-college-students?t=95) In Iran, the leftists thought they were using the Islamists. [1:39](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/XC9oQ7ugofcE/en/iranian-revolution-a-warning-to-american-college-students?t=99) They thought the Islamists were useful. They thought, "We will join forces now. [1:46](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/XC9oQ7ugofcE/en/iranian-revolution-a-warning-to-american-college-students?t=106) We will tear down the Shah. We will destroy the existing system. [1:51](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/XC9oQ7ugofcE/en/iranian-revolution-a-warning-to-american-college-students?t=111) We will have our revolution, and then we will take power." [1:54](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/XC9oQ7ugofcE/en/iranian-revolution-a-warning-to-american-college-students?t=114) They were so arrogant, and they were so naive. [1:58](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/XC9oQ7ugofcE/en/iranian-revolution-a-warning-to-american-college-students?t=118) The Islamists were using them. And when the Islamists no longer needed them, they turned on them. [2:07](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/XC9oQ7ugofcE/en/iranian-revolution-a-warning-to-american-college-students?t=127) The college students who helped bring the revolution to power, they were purged. [2:14](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/XC9oQ7ugofcE/en/iranian-revolution-a-warning-to-american-college-students?t=134) The professors, purged. The intellectuals, imprisoned. [2:20](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/XC9oQ7ugofcE/en/iranian-revolution-a-warning-to-american-college-students?t=140) The leftists, tortured and executed. The universities themselves were shut down. [2:29](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/XC9oQ7ugofcE/en/iranian-revolution-a-warning-to-american-college-students?t=149) The Islamists used the college students to take power, and then they crushed the very college students who helped put them there. [2:36](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/XC9oQ7ugofcE/en/iranian-revolution-a-warning-to-american-college-students?t=156) And you know what the Islamists told them? [2:39](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/XC9oQ7ugofcE/en/iranian-revolution-a-warning-to-american-college-students?t=159) They said, "If you will turn on your own country, how do we trust you not to turn on us? [2:43](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/XC9oQ7ugofcE/en/iranian-revolution-a-warning-to-american-college-students?t=163) If you don't stand for your own country, you stand for nothing." [2:47](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/XC9oQ7ugofcE/en/iranian-revolution-a-warning-to-american-college-students?t=167) That is the part of the Iranian revolution that every American college student should be forced to study, not what our indoctrination camps we call college education are teaching them.