08/04/2026
Where Mamdani Got His "Free Bus Rides"
On February 1, 1979, in Tehran, Iran, the smiling Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini delivered a speech promising Iranians, “free water, free electricity and free bus service." Supposedly, it would all be paid for by oil revenues in a new "just Islamic system."
Khomeini's pledges drew in millions of young Iranian radicals and dreamers. He was heralded as "leader of the world’s underprivileged."
The subsequent Islamic Revolution soon deposed the Iranian Monarch, Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. Khomeini became the nation's supreme leader.
Khomeini's freebies never manifested, but a totalitarian theocracy was born with the Persian populace losing its freedom and thousands more losing their lives as protestors and infidels. Two million fled Iran to other parts of the world.
From the start of his New York City mayoral campaign, Zohran Mamdani, a Muslim born in Uganda of Indian descent, promised free bus rides, free childcare, free housing, free food...
Time will prove that Mamdani's promises of free stuff was just a ruse in a long term strategy aided by countless useful idiots.