Those are images of people living a western style of life in a secular country. It's not a free country though. The Iran of 1978 was a fascist police state that aribitrarily arrested and tortured people (like Assads Syria) [1]. It's convenient and has become somehow a tumblr fashion to do this simplistic comparison ("proof by gif"), but the reality was much different and the revolution against it, although it brought another form of oppression and religious dictatorship, was supported by many Iranians.<p>[1] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran#Late_modern_period" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran#Late_modern_period</a>
It's sad what religious zealotry can do to an entire country when people don't stand up for themselves.<p>Being religious/anti/non-religious is fine - just stop pushing it on other people.
Please don't add editorial flourishes to titles. The HN guidelines ask you to "Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait".<p>(Submitted title was "How freedom can change, Iran before 1978".)<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html</a>