Pictory

True "Iranian" Heroes

Unlike the celebrated Islamic heroes, who were all Arabs, we witnessed two truly great Iranian heroes in Reza Shah and the late Shah, may both rest in eternal peace for all their hard work and dedication to the properity of their homeland. They were not perfect, as no human being ever is, but they made their life's mission to modernize Iran.

The Pahlavis were not self-serving as many Islamists would have you believe. Both father and son could have been decadent like the Qajar kings and laid back in their harams and palaces and kissed the akhund's rear and Reza Pahlavi would be king today!

But Reza Shah and the late Shah went against the corrupt ulama, they went against the reactionary establishment, putting themselves and their dynasty in grave danger, simply because they rejected the idea that Iran was destined to be forever backward because of self-serving mullahs and their masters, the British.

Seriously, what the Pahlavis accomplished for Iran was the REAL revolution, which would make the Islamic resurgence of 1979 a counter revolution. God bless them both!!!

May God bless Their soul & may They rest in peace...

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put me to sleep

watching this stupid video. Nothing is funnier than seeing women wearing hejab under a hat! another figment of immagniation by islamists again........

No matter how hard islamo communist try, they can't change the history.  What ever we have in Iran,we owe it to great Reza shah and his son. One can only imagine what Iran would have looked like now if likes of khoemini would have come to power in 1909 instead of 1979! Rooheshan shad. We need some one like Reza shah more than ever now.

Nice TV show.

Although Some of you Reza Shah historians living abroad really need to do your homework on this man.... specially his forceful tactics on women who refused to remove hejab and Islam out of Iran.

Oh really?

will is that why he get kicked out from iran? like his dad? Hmmmm ouiii

Don't depress the sad clown (to Q)

Q, don't push the sad clown to depression, he'll go visit Count Dracula ....

good

good

MON Q Ceci est Un Grand Jour ;0)

Quel Est La Tendance Politique de Mon Q ?

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Oh and Before I Wish You Clowns a Happy Weekend.

Je Vous Envoie un Bon Baiser de Mon Cul,

LOL

The Shah's Huge Miscalculation

dhhcfo -- You are wrong about one thing: the Shah was not afraid that those with an education will rise up against him -- no way! If he was afraid of such a thing, why would he sponsor thousands of students every year at very cheap dollars to go to the US and get an education and come back to Iran and help the country? No. The Shah was not afraid of educated people. After all, in his quest for the "rocket age" as opposed to the age of the donkey (mullahs), he needed educated people in his economy.

Here's the HUGE miscalculation of the Shah: until the early 1970's, the Shah was under the impression that his greatest threat was the left, the marxists, and he miscalculated that the religious community, the Ulama, the shiite establishment, was pro-monarchy, and as such, a bulwark against the atheistic left (as they had been in 1953 with ayatollah Kashani and crew which helped restore the monarchy). So, the Shah allowed the ulama to grow and grow, thinking it would serve the monarchy in its fight against the communistic left.

All of that changed sometime around 1973, when the Shah realized that the ayatollahs were after his head (and crown). At about this time, the Shah began a fierce campaign against the ulama and the bazarris, who were the hereditary backers of the shiite establishment. But by that point, it was too late, as the Shah had already made many powerful enemies, specially in the West, as OPEC was the Shah's brainchild.

If you believe the LA Times, a recent article documented that even before Carter, the Ford administration (Rumsfeld, Kissinger, etc.) were working hard to destablizie the Shah's regime to punish him for his aggressive oil policies. They even got Saudi Arabia to produce over 10 million gallons a day throughout 1977, which dramatically forced oil priced down, which truly hurt the Iranian economy at the worst possible time.

And the rest is history.

Iran's greatest child

Reza shah was a great leader in a wrong time. Bless his soal. We owe him a lot.

Nostolgic

Six minutes clip of a production is certainly not enough to judge the artistic value and the factual aspects of this film. However, suffice to say that if this is an IRI depiction of the Pahlavi dynasty, then it ought to be all exaggeration, lie and falsification and in short a garbage portrayal.

Reza shah was a great ruler, patriotic individual, with tons of love and affection for Iran and its place in history. But before anything else, he was the only person, who deeply knew, believed, and understood the fallacy of mullah and backwardness of fanatic Islam. The emancipation of women, spread of higher education, engulfing mullahs and their poisonous propaganda was only a few of his enormous accomplishments in Iran. He respected the constitution, but he also knew at the time that Iran and its populace were not educated enough for western style democracy.

Araya Mehr, on the other hand, was a meek and non-aggressive individual who made one huge miscalculation. He always believed that people with higher education are the one who will finally rise against him (I am partly educated in University of Tehran pre-revolution). Alas…the uneducated people, who believed in Islam, the murderous komeini and his cronies were the one who finally toppled him.

May God bless Reza shah and Arya Mehr soul in eternity. Iran finally got what they deserve. As they say in Farsi – Az must ke bar must!!

Oh, our resident sad clown, Kadivar, what will become of you?

I will cherish this statement from you:

I think most Iranian Women would wholeheartingly accept the Bullet as a Gift from Heaven rather than live in the HELL you and your friends created for them !

Wow! Not only are you a spokesman for 35 million Iranian women you are also ready to sacrifice their lives?

Question: If you are actually right, what prevents the women from removing their hejabs now?

(didn't think this one through, did you, mon petit génie ?)

You are so prdictable.

Wake up Kadivar

I like it you keep doing your BS and dance away from issues. It hurts I understand that history is not kind to Mass Murderers and Thieves... your Reza Shah The Thief when fled Iran was one of the richest man in the world.

Wake Up man

that's funny....

that the akhoonds, who are british stooges should make a series like this....!
where is the shame!? even after 30 years of raping and pillaging iran, the mullahs still want to demonize reza shah.....you have any clue what iran would be like without his efforts???!!!
my goodness, and you have these people writing nonsense that has been drilled into their heads by the akhoonds...go read some books about history and let the man rest in peace!

Nice hidden comment Darius

I liked your "Mon Q" subject title in your response to "Q". Very droll, in a Parisian sort of way!

I'll take that any day over this

Today's youth envy their parents,for having lived in that "Ruined Country".

good catch Kadivar

good catch Kadivar_jAn, as I have told you before you are a smart monarchist. ... I always wonder why you become a nonarchist!

Where is the next Reza Shah?

30 years of Mullahs Tyranny has ruined Iran and as a result Iranians have become the most hated nation worldwide.
More than ever Iran is waiting for a saviour who would rescue our culture, language our pride and dignity and moreover to wipe out the Mullahs in a way that they can never raise to power again. This can be done very well by another Reza shah.

They ruined our country!

They ruined our country! You are right.

Very good comments. Thank you!

Ruined our country!

Shah didn't do anything for the provincial areas of Iran, reason we have such a huge population in Tehran today (most of the urban migration occurred during his time, due to his neglect of rural areas and those very same people became the foot soldiers of the revolution).

But for argument sake, lets talk about the land reforms which Amini came up with and Shah later took credit for ("white reovlution"). It was forced upon the Shah to take such measures by JFK if you recall, in context of Cold War, as attempt to forestall a paesant revolution masalan.

Well im sure you know that the entire scheme primarily benefitted foreign agribusiness interests, not Iranians. It is true some property was distributed amongst the paesantry, but most of the land was not of a cultivable nature and it was not distributed free of charge. It was distributed against monetary payments that had to be made to banks controlled by the royal family. Also, large tracts of land were totally excluded from the scheme and were directly given to the royal family under Bonyade Pahlavi or US agribusiness interests that used Iran's land for the cultivation of crops that were not even consumed in Iran, but destined for foreign markets!!!

For example, areas where given over to cultivation of asparagus, an item totally absent from the Iranian diet. Ham zaman, Iranian produced butter became unavailable, so that in Tehran's supermarkets you could only find Danish butter! It was this destruction of the agrarian economy which caused the massive depopulation of the countryside! We are paying the price for it today!

Great looking Mohammad Reza, with a lovely nose ;o)

Their Reza Shah is not tall enough, though!

massive exaggerations of the Shah's crimes (to sassan)

That is true to a large extent. Shah's crimes were definitely exaggerated. Unfortunately Shah and his regime helped to amplify those exaggerations you are talking about. Perhaps they thought the scarier they looked the more secure they would be! It backfired on them.
IRI with all its blunders, does not normally do that.....

MON Q ...

If Reza Shah the Great were alive today I think most Iranian Women would wholeheartingly accept the Bullet as a Gift from Heaven rather than live in the HELL you and your friends created for them !

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So Boro Betemargh with your Friends Below ...

Sarbazeh Eslami:

//www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgpxSeO34rU

Frustrated Hypocrite Mullah:

//www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cxetvws8o68

Zarei, Iranian Police SEX in zendan:

//www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdlNf70hDLM

Good catch Kadivar,

the real Rezah Shah would have forced her to remove the scarf at gun point. I wouldn't mind to see that bit added to the film, it would be a lot more realistic. :)

Notice The Women Wear Headscarf under Hat ... ;0)

The funny thing about the IRI's propaganda films about pre-revolution Iran is they are always embarassed with how to portray women during the Pahlavi Era. Like the one made about WWII entitled Zero Degree Turn. In another film I saw on the Last days of the Sha, Even the actress playing the Shahbanou had to wear a jewl encrusted headscarf all the time when her character appeared in a close up. How silly ...

Look Towards the end when Reza Shah is dictating his memoires to his secretary or supposed daughter (Shams or Ashraf) in Maurice Island. The lady has an elegant hat over a headscarf in black to cover her hair.

The Great Epic director Cecile B. Demille who made the Ten Commandments was once asked "if your films are so religious then why do you show nude scenes and orgies so much when you portray the Pharaoh's court or the Holy Calf Scene ?"

He answered Brilliantly "When you want to denounce Sin then the least you can do is Show It ! ..."

//www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXyEcMG5bDs

That is why "Sin" on Screen has to be cinematographically tempting to make you feel guilty afterwards Just like Masturbation ... LOL

George Carlin: The Ten Commandments

//www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkRYaMiP4K8

That said the costumes and sets look accurate. But the acting is terribly theatrical and too stereotyped: The Bad and Cruel Shah and the opportunistic son.

When will they Grow Up ?

No Wonder the Jews Conquered Hollywood.

We Just have unwatchable Kiarostami films to be proud of ...

The Pahlavi Dynasty

May father and son BOTH rest in peace! If there is a hell we all know Khomeini is burning right now, because his heart was pure evil. As for the Shah, his heart was in the right place (even with his mistakes), except that we were, as a nation, too ignorant to appreciate the Pahlavi efforts to modernize our backward country. And above all, we were easily fooled by holy men and charlatans (ayatollahs) who only cared about their twisted religion and not for Iran.

Instead of thinking about HOW FAR we had come in a short 53 years (1925-1978), all we did as an ungrateful and undesciplined nation was focus on HOW FAR we had to go to get to the promised land, the land of prosperity and modernity, two things that were summarily extinguished in Iran by the mullahs.

My parents participated in the national suicide now known as the "Islamic" revolution, but they were uneducated, uninformed in the ways of the world and all too ignorant. They easily fell victims to a wide-reaching conspiracty to dethrone the Shah and ended up imagining mullah Khomeini's face on the moon!

My parents (and me, at 9 years old) believed the mullah's massive exaggerations of the Shah's crimes and the massive exaggerations of the nation's problems. We were bamboozeled, suckered, taken to the cleaners and short-changed like no other populace on the face of the planet.

So sad!

God bless Reza Shah, who saved Iran from economic and political ruin in 1925! God bless the late Shah, who tried so very hard to create a noble, modern and proud Iran, and we snapped at him like ungrateful dogs who were all too ignorant to appreciate the fatherly hand that fed us well, even though he was not perfect! Long live Iran and those who put Iran above ideology and religion!!!

Despite the IRI's efforts to portrait...

Pahlavi's as pure evil, they will live in history as Iran's builders in a time that nobody alse was up for the task. May their soul rest in peace, especially Reza shah's.