Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood

So in the story the ordinary people wanted to get rid of the Shah because the Shad was anti-communist? And I'm assuming all the other characters, like Marji's family, parents, grandparents, etc. held idealistic views of communism?

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Marji's parents liked Mohammad Reza Pahlavi who took control of the oil and represented a socialist approach. The US backed Shah took away power from Pahlavi which sparked a revolution. The Shah of Iran was deposed by a strict Islamic republic under Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.