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Iranian women played a crucial role in overthrowing the Shah during the 1979 Revolution. Many joined the Communist Party Tudeh, marched in the streets, organized strikes, mobilized their families, and filled public spaces. After Khomeini’s victory, they received the opposite: mandatory hijab, the loss of family and divorce rights, legally enforced inequality, and violence for noncompliance. Many of the same communists who helped lead the revolution were later persecuted, imprisoned, and executed. Today’s American feminists aligned with radical woke movements and Islamist causes should pause and learn the history’s lessons.