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Source: https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/israel-middle-east/articles/iran-revolution-trump-bhl
Iran's Revolution
(Tablet) Bernard-Henri Levy - Iran trembles on the edge of a horrific bloodbath. I have no doubt that the fascist regime of the mullahs will take a terrible revenge on the civilians who are defying it. What has been happening in Iran is not a revolt. It is a revolution. Iranians have known at least five revolts in the past 15 years with demands for reform. A revolution does not seek the adjustment of the regime, but its replacement. Small-minded, petty spirits, obsessed with order in all things, are choking: "How can this be a revolution? A revolution requires a leader; it wants to see only one head; and we see no head, except that exile, that ghost of Pahlavi." History, thank heaven, has so much more imagination than they do! History does not wait for events to present themselves with a cast list, an organizational chart, and approved spokespersons. Revolutions choose their faces as they move forward; it is revolutions that create the men called to embody them, not already-named men who lead revolutions. No one knew Robespierre on the eve of 1789. No one knew Lenin when he boarded his sealed train in Zurich for Petrograd. And on the eve of Solidarity in Poland, Lech Walesa was just another shipyard worker in Gdansk. That man will come. And it may very well be a woman. The writer is a philosopher and author of more than 45 books.