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pigpaws
It's sad what religious zealotry can do to an entire country when people don't stand up for themselves.

Being religious/anti/non-religious is fine - just stop pushing it on other people.

nine_k
The state when you are not forced to follow other people's agenda is usually called "freedom".
elcapitan
Those are images of people living a western style of life in a secular country. It's not a free country though. The Iran of 1978 was a fascist police state that aribitrarily arrested and tortured people (like Assads Syria) [1]. It's convenient and has become somehow a tumblr fashion to do this simplistic comparison ("proof by gif"), but the reality was much different and the revolution against it, although it brought another form of oppression and religious dictatorship, was supported by many Iranians.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran#Late_modern_period

danielvf
However, comparing pre-revolution oppression with post-revolution oppression is like comparing an empty soda can with a metal baseball bat.

There were months post-revolution in which more people were executed than the total killed for political reasons during shah's entire reign.

[dead] saharo
Awesome pictures
dang
Please don't add editorial flourishes to titles. The HN guidelines ask you to "Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait".

(Submitted title was "How freedom can change, Iran before 1978".)

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html