Nadene Goldfoot
In 1935, Persia became Iran. In the mid 1930s, the ruler of the country, Reza Shah Pahlavi, moved towards formalising the name Iran instead of Persia for all purposes.
In 1953, the U.S. and Britain helped orchestrate a coup d'etat to oust Prime Minister Mohammed Mosaddeq, bringing the pro-Western monarch, Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, back to power. Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, also known as Mohammad Reza Shah, was the last Shah of Iran from 16 September 1941 until his overthrow in the Iranian Revolution on 11 February 1979. Due to his status as the last Shah of Iran, he is often known as simply the Shah. Mohammad Reza Shah took the title Shahanshah on 26 October 1967. He was a friend of Israel.
In 2021, An unusual Ayatollah Abdol-Hamed Masoumi-Tehrani, who opposed his present regime in Iran, was stripped of his title of Ayatollah for wanting to end hostilities toward Israel. Tehrani gave an interview to Israeli television from Tehran, said that “Iranians and Jews have many years of friendship" and declared that he hasn't met Iranians who don’t have a positive opinion of Israel. He called for an end for "illogical hostility between the Iranian and Israeli peoples".
He is an Iranian cleric based in Tehran, Iran. Masoumi-Tehrani was born in Tehran to a distinguished cleric family and attained the rank of Marja al-Taqlid or a "source of emulation" in 1988.
He was quite the rebel, breaking rank and file with the present government when Masoumi-Tehrani has been pressured by authorities, detained, and imprisoned on various occasions, starting when he was 23. He claims to have been questioned even by agents of reformist president Mohammad Khatami regarding his project to publish calligraphy of the Torah, and that beginning in 2004 he received threats connected to his similar project for the Psalms. These are writings by Jews, and Abdol was a calligrapher artist.
In April 2014, as a mark of solidarity with the Baháʼí community of Iran, the largest religious minority in the country, he gifted the Baháʼís of the world a calligraphy work from the writings of Bahá'u'lláh, the prophet founder of the Baháʼí Faith, which states: "Consort with all religions with amity and concord, that they may inhale from you the sweet fragrance of God. Beware lest amidst men the flame of foolish ignorance overpower you. All things proceed from God and unto Him they return. He is the source of all things and in Him all things are ended." The Ayatollah's call for religious tolerance and co-existence has received worldwide support from religious leaders. The Baha'is have a place in Haifa, Israel, and are very welcome there.
In October 1971, Iran marked the anniversary of 2,500 years of continuous Persian monarchy since the founding of the Achaemenid Empire by Cyrus the Great. Concurrent with this celebration, Shah Mohammad Reza changed the benchmark of the Iranian calendar from the hegira to the beginning of the First Persian Empire, measured from Cyrus the Great's coronation. Mohammad Reza also introduced the White Revolution, a series of economic, social and political reforms with the proclaimed intention of transforming Iran into a global power and modernizing the nation by nationalizing certain industries and granting women suffrage. During his 38-year rule, Iran spent billions on industry, education, health, and armed forces and enjoyed economic growth rates exceeding the United States, England, and France. The national income also rose 423 times over. By 1977, Iran's armed services spending had made it the world's fifth strongest military.
- "Ruhollah Khomeini (1902–1989) was the son of Mostafa Hindi, he was an Iranian politician, revolutionary, and cleric. He was the founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran and the leader of the 1979 Iranian Revolution, which saw the overthrow of the last Shah of Iran, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, and the end of the 2,500-year-old Persian monarchy. Following the revolution, Khomeini became the country's Supreme Leader, a position created in the constitution of the Islamic Republic as the highest-ranking political and religious authority of the nation, which he held until his death" His power was almighty, like a king or Czar. The president was a puppet.
Iran had a revolution in October 1977 where the ayatollah ousted the popular Shah
who was friendly with Israel and the Ayatollah took over. They replaced a pro-Western authoritarian monarchy with an anti-Western theocracy based on the concept of velayat-e faqih (or Guardianship of the Islamic Jurists). In addition to these, the revolution sought a global Shia revival and uprootal of Sunni hegemony. It was a relatively nonviolent revolution, and it helped to redefine the meaning and practice of modern revolutions (although there was violence in its aftermath).
The revolution that substituted the monarchy of Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi with Islam and Khomeini is credited in part to the spread of the Shi'a version of the Islamic revival. This resisted Westernization and saw Ayatollah Khomeini as following in the footsteps of the Shi'a Imam Husayn ibn Ali, while the Shah in the role of Husayn's foe, the hated tyrant Yazid I. Other factors include the underestimation of Khomeini's Islamist movement by both the Shah's reign—who considered them a minor threat compared to the Marxists and Islamic socialists—and by the secularist opponents of the government—who thought the Khomeinists could be sidelined."
"On February 1, 1979, the Ayatollah Khomeini returned to Iran in triumph after 15 years of exile. The shah and his family had fled the country two weeks before, and jubilant Iranian revolutionaries were eager to establish a fundamentalist Islamic government under Khomeini’s leadership. Under his rule, Iranian women were denied equal rights and required to wear a veil, Western culture was banned, and traditional Islamic law and its often-brutal punishments were reinstated. In suppressing opposition, Khomeini proved as ruthless as the shah, and thousands of political dissidents were executed during his decade of rule." Along with all this suppression was a hatred for Jews and Israel who were westernized.
After the Ayatollah Khomeini died on June 3, 1989, more than two million anguished mourners attended his funeral. Ali Khamenei became Supreme Leader. Gradual democratization began in Iran in the early 1990s, culminating in a free election in 1997 in which the moderate reformist Mohammed Khatami was elected president.
"Ayatollah Sayyid Ali Hosseini Khamenei born 19 April 1939) is a Twelver Shia Marja' and the second and current supreme leader of Iran, in office since 1989. He was previously President of Iran from 1981 to 1989. Khamenei is the longest serving head of state in the Middle East, as well as the second-longest serving Iranian leader of the last century, after Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi."
"There have been major protests during Khamenei's reign, including the 1994 Qazvin Protests, the 1999 Iranian student protests, the 2009 Iranian presidential election protests, the 2011–2012 Iranian protests, the 2017–2018 Iranian protests, the 2018–2019 Iranian general strikes and protests, and the 2019–2020 Iranian protests. Journalists, bloggers, and other individuals have been put on trial in Iran for the charge of insulting Supreme Leader Khamenei, often in conjunction with blasphemy charges. Their sentences have included lashing and jail time, and some of them have died in custody. Regarding the nuclear program of Iran, Khamenei issued a fatwa in 2003 forbidding the production, stockpiling, and use of all kinds of weapons of mass destruction." What has happened? Was that a farce? A coverup for their activity? Iran has been doing just the opposite.
Iran has been fighting proxy wars against Israel using Syria and Lebanon.
Iran has been very close to be able to destroy Israel with nuclear power. Netanyahu warned the UN years ago on 29 September 2014 about how close they were to have the capability to do this. This fear has upset even the other Muslim countries. Now many have made friends with Israel, who has the most to lose. 
Today was the time to end Iran's capabilities. An explosion occurred in Natanz, Iran in their underground nuclear facilities. A bomb was found to have exploded in their that must have been planted. No plane delivered this from up above.
Resource:
https://worldisraelnews.com/iran-admits-nuclear-sabotage-was-beautiful-remote-controlled-bomb-caused-explosion/?utm_source=newsletters_worldisraelnews_com&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Iran+Admits+Israel%27s+Nuclear+Sabotage+was+%27Beautiful%27%2C+Bomb+Caused+Explosion%3B+Fauci+Belittles+Israeli+Vaccine+Study%3B+Israel%27s+Memorial+Day+Begins+Tonight&utm_campaign=20210413_m162821394_%5B50K%5D+Iran+Admits+Israel%27s+Nuclear+Sabotage+was+%27Beautiful%27%2C+Bomb+Caused+Explosion%3B+Fauci+Belittles+Israeli+Vaccine+Study%3B+Israel%27s+Memorial+Day+Begins+Tonight&utm_term=Iran+Admits+Israel_27s+Nuclear+Sabotage+_E2_80_98Beautiful_E2_80_99_3B+Remote-controlled+Bomb+Caused
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammad_Reza_Pahlavi
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdol-Hamid_Masoumi-Tehrani
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iranian_Revolution
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ali_Khamenei
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/ayatollah-khomeini-returns-to-iran
https://news.un.org/en/story/2014/09/479772-assembly-speech-israels-netanyahu-warns-against-militant-islam-denounces-un
https://www.i24news.tv/en/news/international/middle-east/1611607984-iranian-ayatollah-calls-for-end-to-hostilities-with-israel
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_facilities_in_Iran
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