Iranian of the Day

Mola N

Read my comment carefully: I talk about economic indicators such as GDP per capita, oil production etc, these ARE the FACTS - check them out for yourself.  Recessions happen, they last for a couple of years and then the economy, if manged wisely, recovers.  Iran has been in permanent decline for 31 years - that is not a recession, that is incompetence combined with corruption and theft by Khamenei and the rest of the mullahs.

Also note: stating that the Islamist jihadi regime in Tehran is backward, incompetent and corrupt is NOT prejudice. IT IS FACT.

Lets look at some examples so we establish FACTS: 

Backward: stoning, whipping, public hangings, harassment of women and minorities etc

Incompetent: we have already discussed their poor management of the economy (as a starting point).

Corrupt: Stolen elections, Businesses and wealth being allocated to the 'khodemoonis'  like Khamenei's family, Ahmadinejad's cronies and the IRGC etc.

 Any other facts you would like to discuss??????? 

Sad, Incredible State of Denial!

There is not even a little acknowledgement of oppressive dictatorship and widespread corruption that culminated in 1979 people’s uprising against the Pahlavi regime, in her account. It is the same old narrative of their fault (betrayals and lies), and not ours (despotism and corruption) that caused it.

She states that the king was tormented by the execution of many patriotic Iranians, which was done by hanging psychopath judge Khalkhali!  Well, these brave men stayed true to their oath of loyalty to the king but he had fled and left them with no instruction. Prime minister Amir Abbass Hoveyda was also sacrificed when left imprisoned on the charges of corruption while the courtiers and the peas around the peacock throne escaped with their loots!

I understand the human loyalty to husband and father, specially a deceased one, but to have this much convenient amnesia or disregard of the facts is incredible and sad.

Mola and Mola, Genossen! Tankz!

actually, it's one of those things  that eating meat becomes a symbol of success. 

A bit like , noono panir-o angoor  turning into noono panir-o KoooookA KoooolA!

Very sad.

Only thing is, that I haven't heard anyone boast in the US about being able to eat meat everyday. Let alone a former monarch mentioning the price of meat.

Good interview though?

„Podrán cortar todas las flores, pero no podrán detener la primavera."- Pablo Neruda

Marjaneh,

Why the price of meat as a yardstick you ask? Because they like to eat their abghosht just like Americans who like to eat their steaks and the French who like to eat frogs.

Agha Irani: It's about stating the facts without any prejudice and not about which regime is more awful. If you do a research about the very last few years of Shah's rule you'll see Iran was going through a great recession hence khomeini's promise of sending a check to every family from oil revenues. 

So, tis tAim, I vonz 2 know

Why do so many Iranians keep mentioning the price of meat as a yardstick?

Tanks* in advance. xxx

„Podrán cortar todas las flores, pero no podrán detener la primavera."- Pablo Neruda

*No pun intended. Or actually....

Correction! Correction! It's Khadijeh NOT Batool Khomeini!

I have some videos of Khadijeh swimming in Khazineh (i.e., old village Hamoom)!

If anybody interested I'll make them available!

By the way, Batoll is the name of Khamenei's wife!

Mola N

It is true that the Shah was a dictator - but he wasn't ruthless enough - he should have had Khomeini executed back in 1963 and then we wouldn't have had this awful retarded islamic regime of the past 30 years.

Regarding the economy your comment is laughable - every indicator shows that Iran was economically more successful in the 1970s (before the mullahs and their islamist hangers on started to loot the country's wealth) than it is even today more than 30 years later.  The real economic mismanagement has been under the stewardship of Khomieni, Khamenei and their cronies.  But then if you rely on a 1400 year old ideology to run a country in the 21st Century it is sure going to be backward.  While the rest of the world has entered modernity, Iran has entered the Dark Ages.

Yeh ok Jasonrobarda

They stole our democratic rights and we now have democratic rights with Akhoonds in charge. We put akhoonds in charge to give us democratic rights. "Democratic Rights" for a nation is something that is earned and we did not deserve it or earn it as evidenced by our stupidity of replacing one type of dictator (the shah) with another wrose type of dictator (the turban).

Mind you, the Shah had very good reasons at the time with respect to taking our "democratic rights" away. Everyone forgets about the "democratic rights" we would have received had shmucks like the Tudeh would have taken power with the Sovit Union next door.  History has proven the Shah right for taking democratic rights away. Look what we did with "democratic rights" once we got rid of the monarchy. We shot our self in the foot by selecting a bigot (and a bigoted system) as our form of leadership.

I am no supporter of Monarchy but I stand by my earlier comment. Farah is all class, regardless of your rant about her clan "kept the rest in the lowest strata" crap. My father was in the lowest of the lowest strata, growing up in the worst conditions and because of the Pahalavi's he became educated and an Engineer. Corruption is every where, in every type of system, so stop using these bs excusses. At least 80% of the Iranians I know today say "goh khordim ba in karee ke kardeem". 

Farah Pahlavi

Don't waste your time , these donkeys " olagh-ha" don't deserve you!!

Olagh should only have another olagh ( akhoond) as their leader.

mulla nassrullah you & your other user IDs should thank pahlavis

For it was not for them, there would be no islamist khalifat regime ruling Iran (just about) and you'd be out of job, living in shotor abad, instead of the democratic west, bull s**tting on behalf of your paymasters on iranian.com,  24/7.

artificial inteligence , bavafa

   She is one classy lady ?????   Yes the class of super priveleged !!! While her clan kept the rest in the lowest strata. The pahlavis are thieves . they stole our democratic rights and our resources .

Those were good old days especially for the Pahlavis...

What should it be called? Selective memory? As one gets older she tends to remember the good times, sweet memories and places that entertains and soothes one's soul. Ms Diba is no different. 

Ms Diba has forgotten the great recession that was responsible for the downfall of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi's regime among other things. When banks were not lending money anymore and the housing bubble had burst, pretty much like what's happenign today in the United States and other places.

Ms Diba also mentions many excuses for her husband's ruthless dictatorial regime. There was no party but his party, there was no voice but his voice, there was no decision made without his input and the list goes on.

At the end of the interview she pushes her son to be the next ruler by saying Shah wanted his son to rule Iran democratically after all. But as the saying goes every story has a beginnig, a middle and an end. Pahlavi's times are over and it'll exist only in the memories of the ones who were involved with it or Pahlavi's remnants outside of Iran. 

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I got a new idea for a new toon ... !

A great interview and a very classy lady

Only if her son could be as articulated, candid and smart....

Mehrdad

not repeating the past

Personaly talking the social freedom was in the opposit direction of our culture (western values in front of Islamic ) majority would cherish parties,drinking,dancing and happy go around and at the same time would celebrate sine zani,ashoora and abolfalz party.....

It was and still is part of our LOST SOUL SEARCHING ......

hope the lessons taught by RR will cause a major shift on the Iranian as whole to find freedom from with in.           Maziar

Pure Class

And educated to. Thanks for the posting

Sargord Pirooz, do you have any videos of Batool Khomeini?

Of course, one that can show what's under the black tent hopefully shaved I mean the facial hair and stuff. I would love to see what she looked like.

Aghdas Khamenei, Kobra Ahmadinejad, etc. would work too if you happen to have them. As you know we would love to poke on your kins!

Relevance

Could we please have some akhoobd shashoo on the main page so that their followers feel equally treated. Thanks

Twillight Zone

"An Alien Encounter." An old & boring episode.

Was it just a sample of a longer interview?

My guess is that this is part of a longer interview since the last question was getting to the heart of the matter. Farah is more candid about those days and claims the Shah was "hoping" to open the political atmosphere in Iran, and he started doing that "when it was too late." In other words Farah admits the fact that the political repression caused the revolution.

That's what happens when one person decides the fate of a nation. Political atmosphere of a country is not like a valve that one can open and close on a whim. It is a gradual and evolutionary process. One cannot close down the political dialogue,  and then try to open up the political atmosphere just a little in order to prevent an explosion. It was too late and the explosion happened.

Are the Pahlavis irrelevant? I don't think so. Since they were the last dynasty in Iran and they have many followers, we cannot just ignore them. They are still alive in the "hearts and minds" of many. Farah has a good point there when she says she would have "hoped" the country was in a better shape today after more than thirty years. Since if we were in a better shape, then we could forget about the Pahlavis and embrace the aquired freedom etc. After all that's what the revolution supposedly was all about.  Unfortunately in many ways we are in a worse shape and many (not just monarchists) dream of the days when they (we) had at least cultural and social freedom.

Always classy

she was/is always a class act. Thanks for posting this.

Look who's talking of irrelevant

If you miss your sort of mentality this much then tune on to presstv, jam-e jam or any of those which seem relevant to your dogma.

Here is for exiles and non-exiles both, whether it suits you or not.

Absolute relativity!

The only reason for this video being relevant today is the mullahs' characteristic incapability.

I find Her remarks in this interview kicked up a notch or two. A good sign.

Thanks GS.

Every Day We Get A Little Bit Closer!

Farah is very candid!

 I am not a shahollahi but I think RP is our best choice currently.  I wish him success for bringing a parliamentary monarcki to Iran after IRI SOON.

You know, putting irrelevant

You know, putting irrelevant exiles like the Pahlavis so many times on the main page, maybe it would be appropriate to change the name of the site to EXILED_IRANIAN.com.

Then you could change the motto to: "Nothing is Relevant."