You look at Iran, at revolutions, and ask: can systems really bring freedom? Revolutions keep replacing one system with another, yet the chaos remains. The real question is rarely asked: what within us creates these systems? Real freedom is not political or social; it is inward. Without inner change, every revolution only rotates power, never resolves suffering.
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Questioner: Good evening, sir. So, sir, nowadays protests are triggered in Iran. So, they have gone from economic grievances to an anti-regime protest, and external effects, like the EU has declared their military as a terrorist organization, and America’s military. So, what is your response regarding this situation, and how can there be a peaceful transition without chaos?
Acharya Prashant: You see, you can have a seemingly peaceful transition on the surface, but the chaos will still remain, because the chaos is much deeper than what you see on the surface. I call these 'rotating revolutions.'
1979: the same Iran, the same streets. They were protesting against the Shah, Mohammad Shah Reza Pahlavi, the Islamic Revolution. And many of the grievances that were held against the Shah, that dictatorial regime are interestingly very, very similar to the grievances that the protesters today have against the Islamic regime.
Then, there was the secret police. The Shah had a secret police. Today, you have the Morality Police. Then, there was a dictatorship that was seen as leaning heavily towards Western powers and the US. Today, again, you have a theocratic dictatorship that is seen as leaning away from the Western powers.
