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I had some family there at the time, although I wasn't around yet. The revolution "made sense" at the time, the people were being mistreated and it was partially due to Western oppression so the Islamic foundation of the revolution made sense, but obviously the backlash was way too strong and now the exact opposite problem plagues the country. As for my family, most of my immediate had moved to Switzerland for college and never went back due to spouses and the growing Islamic ideology of Iran (my family was Bahai, a persecuted religion after the revolution), but some of my distant family was still there and had to leave everything behind because they didn't want to risk living in a radical nation. My one distant cousin that was still a kid there never wants anything to do with the country again because he associates it with the atrocities he witnessed when his family left, but his siblings both would like to go back at some point because they have a more idealistic memory of the country. One of my very distant uncles was in the Shah's cabinet and was kidnapped, tortured, and murdered during the Revolution. In my immediate family only my Grandpa and his siblings have significant ties to Iran, and my Grandpa constantly talks about how he never wants to see the country again.
Basically I guess I'd say that the revolution was merited, but happened in the worst way and left so many people displaced and irrevocably damaged.