Monday March 23, 2009

I've Been thinking:

The Ayatollah Khomeini's widow died on Sunday in Iran, she was 93 years old.
She was known as The Mother of the Revolution.

The death of the Ayatollah's widow is of great import.
In 1979, the Islamic Revolution in Iran ousted the Shah of Iran.
It was then that the Iranians captured the United States Embassy in Teheran and held Americans hostage for 444 days.

This death marks another benchmark for Iran.
Public mourning for The Mother of the Revolution points our how removed the people of today's Iran are from the Iranians who lived through the 1979 Revolution.
Very few Iranians today remember either the Shah or the Ayatollah.

Never the less, the Islamic Regime will try to use the death as a way to stir up the passions and excitement of the once dynamic Islamic movement.
Their attempt will inevitably fail.
For the vast majority of Iranian, probably 80% of the population, the Revolution is synonymous with rhetoric.

The death of The Mother of the Revolution is a sign of just how far Iran has traveled since 1979.
For the West, it is a very good sign.

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