Eternal curse on the 1979 vortex
Bahareh Hedayat, former political prisoner, issued a powerful and uncompromising response to the recent statement by Mir-Hossein Mousavi, former Prime Minister of the Islamic Republic, in a sharply worded post on Instagram.
She directly challenged Mousavi’s political legitimacy, holding him fully accountable for his role in the crimes of the Islamic Republic, including Israel-hostile policies, corrupt rent-based leftist economics, support for the nuclear project, and endorsement of mass repression and killings in the interest of the Islamic regime. She emphasized that Mousavi was never fundamentally different from Ali Khamenei and remains part of the same criminal system established after 1979.
Hedayat underscored the historic scale and political meaning of the recent nationwide protests, stressing that the number of people who took to the streets across Iran in January was many times larger than the 2009 spring demonstrations in Tehran, which had previously been portrayed as unprecedented.
She highlighted that 10 to 15 million people flooded the streets across the country, not only in Tehran, openly confronting live ammunition and brutal repression, while chanting “Javid Shah” (“Long Live the Shah”) — a slogan that clearly signals the complete collapse of the reformist narrative and the definitive public shift toward the restoration of the Pahlavi monarchy.
These unprecedented mass protests demonstrated that Iranian society has decisively moved beyond the entire ideological legacy of the 1979 revolution, including Islamist, leftist, and Islamist-leftist factions. The millions chanting “Javid Shah” openly rejected the political framework imposed in 1979 and expressed a clear demand for national restoration, secular governance, and a return to Iranian sovereignty.
Hedayat further emphasized that the current crisis — marked by mass repression, executions, and economic collapse — is the direct consequence of the 1979 revolution and the political forces that enabled it, declaring: “Eternal curse on the 1979 vortex.” The nationwide uprising witnessed in January represented a historic reckoning with that legacy and a loud declaration that the Persians are reclaiming their country.
