--- title: "9 Iranian Revolution Quotes by 9 authors" description: "Browse 9 Iranian Revolution quotes by 9 authors. Discover the best Iranian Revolution sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3e0/dara-khosrowshahi-12261_after_my-family-emigrated-to-the-u-s-after-the_1765741.jpg" --- > [My family emigrated to the U.S. after the Iranian revolution in 1978.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dara-khosrowshahi/my-family-emigrated-to-the-u-s-after-the-iranian-revolution-in-1978/) [Dara Khosrowshahi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dara-khosrowshahi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3e0/dara-khosrowshahi-12261_after_my-family-emigrated-to-the-u-s-after-the_1765741.jpg) > [The West was involved in toppling the Mossadegh government. That ultimately led to the Iranian revolution.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/salman-rushdie/the-west-was-involved-in-toppling-the-mossadegh-government-that/) [Salman Rushdie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/salman-rushdie/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/600/salman-rushdie-153_government_the-west-was-involved-in-toppling-the-mo_496508.jpg) > [For me, the struggle for women's human rights began the moment I was born in Tehran at the height of the Iranian…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nazanin-boniadi/for-me-the-struggle-for-women-s-human-rights-began-the-moment-i-was/) [Nazanin Boniadi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nazanin-boniadi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/729/nazanin-boniadi-11118_born_for-me-the-struggle-for-women-s-human-ri_2766573.jpg) > [Of course there are many factors that led to the Iranian revolution, but back in 1951, the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company - which…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adam-curtis/of-course-there-are-many-factors-that-led-to-the-iranian-revolution/) [Adam Curtis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adam-curtis/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c72/adam-curtis-13463_democracy_of-course-there-are-many-factors-that-le_772771.jpg) > [“During our stay in Newport Beach, the Iranian Revolution took place and a group of Americans were taken hostage in the American…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/firoozeh-dumas/during-our-stay-in-newport-beach-the-iranian-revolution-took-place/) [Firoozeh Dumas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/firoozeh-dumas/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a59/firoozeh-dumas-15576_israel_during-our-stay-in-newport-beach-the-ira_3077980.jpg) > [One of the consequences of the Iranian revolution has been an explosion of history. A country once known only from British consular…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-buchan/one-of-the-consequences-of-the-iranian-revolution-has-been-an/) [James Buchan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-buchan/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6a4/james-buchan-9717_authenticity_one-of-the-consequences-of-the-iranian-r_2496486.png) > [Our support for the Shah, the CIA coup in 1953 - has become infused into the Iranian political discourse. The regime that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kenneth-m-pollack/our-support-for-the-shah-the-cia-coup-in-1953-has-become-infused-into/) [Kenneth M. Pollack](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kenneth-m-pollack/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/59c/kenneth-m-pollack-34693_cia_our-support-for-the-shah-the-cia-coup-in_1143083.jpg) > [“The war against jihadism has been chronically misunderstood because of our failure to acknowledge the religious motives of Muslim jihadists. This failure…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/the-war-against-jihadism-has-been-chronically-misunderstood-because/) [Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5fc/anonymous-1_failure_the-war-against-jihadism-has-been-chroni_3136776.jpg) > [“As he defended the book one evening in the early 1980s at the Carnegie Endowment in New York, I knew that some…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christopher-hitchens/as-he-defended-the-book-one-evening-in-the-early-1980s-at-the/) [Christopher Hitchens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christopher-hitchens/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4c5/christopher-hitchens-117_1980s_as-he-defended-the-book-one-evening-in-t_183996.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/iranian-revolution/#itemlist", "name": "Iranian Revolution Quotes", "numberOfItems": 9, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "My family emigrated to the U.S. after the Iranian revolution in 1978.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Dara Khosrowshahi" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dara-khosrowshahi/my-family-emigrated-to-the-u-s-after-the-iranian-revolution-in-1978/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3e0/dara-khosrowshahi-12261_after_my-family-emigrated-to-the-u-s-after-the_1765741.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3e0/dara-khosrowshahi-12261_after_my-family-emigrated-to-the-u-s-after-the_1765741.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3e0/dara-khosrowshahi-12261_after_my-family-emigrated-to-the-u-s-after-the_1765741.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“My family emigrated to the U.S. after the Iranian revolution in 1978.” — Dara Khosrowshahi", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "The West was involved in toppling the Mossadegh government. 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(Edward incautiously dismissed 'speculations about the latest conspiracy to blow up buildings or sabotage commercial airliners' as the feverish product of 'highly exaggerated stereotypes.') Covering Islam took as its point of departure the Iranian revolution, which by then had been fully counter-revolutionized by the forces of the Ayatollah. Yes, it was true that the Western press—which was one half of the pun about 'covering'—had been naïve if not worse about the Pahlavi regime. Yes, it was true that few Middle East 'analysts' had had any concept of the latent power of Shi'ism to create mass mobilization. Yes, it was true that almost every stage of the Iranian drama had come as a complete surprise to the media. 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