Look at these two girls. Smiling. Celebrating. Overjoyed. They weren’t just random teenagers. They were part of the secular Marxist left in Iran: the ones who believed they were using the Islamists as useful idiots to topple the Shah and install their socialist paradise. They marched with the jihadis. They cheered for Khomeini. They thought the mullahs would be temporary tools on the road to Marxist utopia. Then the Islamic Revolution ate them alive. Within a short time, around 40,000 political prisoners were executed. Among them: thousands of the same communists and leftists who had just helped bring the ayatollahs to power. One of the girls in this photo, Maryam Rafie, was hanged by Khomeini’s regime in 1989. The other, Sahar Mohammadi, was forced into exile in Sweden. They thought they were riding the Islamists. The Islamists used them, discarded them, and erased them. This is not a tragedy. This is not a “historical mistake.” This is the iron law every time the secular left joins forces with jihad: the left ends up as corpses or refugees. The Muslim terrorists stay in power. Anyone who still hasn’t learned this lesson from Iran 1979 is currently repeating it in the West.i