American and Iranian revolutionary traditions surprisingly have much in common.When Americans celebrate the 4th of July, they often forget that the core purpose of the famous document penned by Thomas Jefferson was to declare independence from Great Britain.Had the colonies failed in that struggle for freedom to govern themselves, the Declaration of Independence’s famous “unalienable” rights to equality, liberty, and life would have been rendered not self-evident.Like America, Iran’s 1979 Revolution, had much to do with throwing off perceived shackles of for...