> who is generally hated by Iranians in power.

So that’s why said Iranians chant Javid Shah?

Iranian here, the Shah has surprisingly many supporters, both inside and abroad.

Iran is a big complex country and is more diverse than people think.

When someone from the ME comments on a story about the ME, it is customary on HN for the community to downvote them into oblivion.

They are not downvoted into oblivion as far as I can see.

Why do you say it's customary?

When I left the reply, the comment was light gray.

I quipped that it is 'customary' based only on a few previous instances I noticed on HN. They drew my attention because with ME issues, I feel like most takes here (including my own) are based on received ideas, rather than first-hand experience.

Exactly, I have a hard time seeing how that will ever play out how they want.

The whole reason the 1979 revolution happened in the first place was because the Shah was a blatant US/Israeli puppet

You've missed the part where islamist butchered the leaders of the actual 1979 revolution. In reality it was:

unpopular shah -> 1979 revolution -> islamists take control, prison and kill the leftists of 1979 revolution.

That is true but that’s often how these things go, you pull together a coalition of factions to overthrow the existing elites and then afterwards it devolves into infighting