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In 1963, the Shah of Iran warned the world about the "red-black reaction" — the unholy alliance between the left and religious extremism. The West didn't listen. Sixteen years later, that alliance hijacked a genuine popular discontent and delivered Iran into the hands of Khomeini. The Shah saw it coming. He named it. He warned them. They called him a dictator and looked away. Now watch Paris burn. A protest over the cost of living turns into looting and fires, the far left in the streets, the same red-black script playing out in the heart of Europe. The anger is real — but so is the lesson. The Shah was decades ahead of his time, and the world is finally catching up to what he tried to tell it.