Before the Mullahs: The Iran That Was Taken From Its People — Debunking Red–Green Moral Equivalence

To push back against ongoing red–green disinformation that erases Iran’s stolen future, I’m sharing a brief report that documents how Iran’s genuine path to tolerant modernity was not rejected by its people—but deliberately destroyed.

Murdered Modernity examines the Shah’s reform project as a serious, institutional attempt to reconcile faith with reason, law with dignity, and tradition with modern life—and how that effort was annihilated by a Red–Black convergence that preferred collapse over continuity. What followed was not liberation, but the permanent closing of the space in which pluralism, women’s equality, civil law, and rational governance could survive.

The contemporary attempt to smear this history—or to claim that “all systems were equally oppressive”—does not defend human rights. It launders the civilizational crime that produced forty-seven years of clerical absolutism, mass repression, and enforced orthodoxy.

This report exists to restore historical clarity, protect today’s protestors from narrative sabotage, and remind the diaspora that Iran’s descent was not inevitable—and need not be repeated.

Reach out if you have any questions.

Jeffrey Damien Cappella

PresidentSoldiers to Statesmen Foundation

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