Shah in Panama

1979 interview with David Frost

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کلاه مخملی

هوشنگ

کلاه مخملی


این  فرح، بالا بری پایین بیای، هرگز قبول نمی کنه که شعبون و دار و دستش، با حمایت امریکا و انگلیس، زیر پای بدبخت مصدقا زدن ... !

بابا تو کجای کاری، برادر ... : ! یکی دو هفته پیش داریوش کدیور یک بلاگ چاپ کرده بود از رضا (پهلوی) - این اقا رضا در یک مصاحبه رادیویی، به قدری از این مرحوم مصدق تعریف کرده بود به عنوان شخصی کاملا وطن پرست، که خودشو فدای ایران کرده بود، که این شاهیا، من جمله این فرح خانم (!)، مونده بودن که چی بگن ... ! خودت برو مصاحبه رضا پهلویا گوش کن .. :)

زنده باشی ... !

 

 


Farah Rusta

Hoshang, you sure have a "way" with women :)

by Farah Rusta on

There is however, Hoshang jaan, a little flaw in your Socratic reasoning: 30th Tir was not a month to the day before the alleged coup - it was a year and one months before the alleged coup!

Remember a week is too long in politics let alone a year! 

Thanks for the time taken in the middle of your working day. Won't bother you any more. Have a good day.

 

FR


Hoshang Targol

Why do we have to get so repetitive in IC? Is it because most of

by Hoshang Targol on

folks who post in here don't have a life outside of posting rehtorical, repetitive questions?

Mrs. Rusta responding to you query feels like lecturing my Persian Lit teacher on vritues of Hafez, and Khayam, she knew all of that much better than me.

As for our little' memory jogging" exercise, let's do this a bit according to Socrates if you don't mind.

If you recall there was a little spontanous street demonstration of few hunderd thousands in Tehran almost a month to date before the coupe, oftern referred to as Sie Tir [30th of Tir].

The entire movement for Nationalization of Oil Industry, and the subsequent street demos and actions had left no doubt that Monarchy was on its way out, and it was actually Shah himself who escaped the country.

As far as his coming to power, I'm sure you recall that Pahalavi "dynasty" was basically over when the Allied forces took out Reza Gholdor aka Adolph Reza Khan back in 1941(his father who also was put in power by non-Iranians, was forced and taken out of power once again by non-Iranians).

Neither Reza Gholdor aka Adolph Reza Khan nor his son were in power according to the free will of, or free elections by Iranian people, but were in those position acording to the expdinecies of Western powers in competition with thier Eastern  cousins!  

 

And according to the eternal law of give and take : One Who Giveth, Is The One Who Taketh, and that's exactly what happened. While I fully understanding  your nastolgia for monarchy in Iran, Pahlavi "dynasty" has as much chance of coming to power in a post-IR Iran, as much as the Ghajar's had a chance of coming to power in 1941:that is ZERO, none, gone, and good riddance,

have a nice day, cheers

-Hoshang 


Farah Rusta

Hooshang joon can you please jog my memory too?

by Farah Rusta on

You say: "Shah was installed in power by non-Iranians after they overthrow the legal Iranian government of Mosadegh."

Well, you see Hooshang joon, here is my problem: if the Shah was installed to power, then he must have de-installed at some earlier time, so he could be re-installed by Americans, right? Because if one is already in power, then how could he be "installed" without being de-installed first? And if he was de-installed, I wonder who was behind it?

Take your time my dear - no rush.

 

FR


Perssimon

Brilliant...

by Perssimon on

...Superb, authentic, a real man! Something the current regime will never be in a million years.

With all his faults, I'd take him back in a heartbeat.

-Whatever you can coceive of, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it! -- Goethe


Hoshang Targol

FVS, can we just blame your English teacher, and your spelling

by Hoshang Targol on

please!

You certainly have a very, very short almost non-existing memory. Shah was insatlled in power by non-Iranians after they overthrow the legal Iranian governenmt of Mosadegh.

Furthermore it was Shah's SAVAK who worked hand in gloves with snakes like Hojatieh and such to "modernize" the country, not to mention all those Mosque building projects and ...

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Haji Firooz: why are your musical choices so retarted? would it have anything to do with you  having no life other than posting insulting, ignorant "comments" in here?


free vs islam

BLAME HIM NOT, BLAME OURSELF

by free vs islam on

we are the nation with short memory and did not remember our history and we forgot that 50 years before 1979 what was Iran than and we were naive and uneducated about life experiences and we had no idea what we are fighting for and we were never thought what is that marxist or islamist or others are trying to offer us, did we asked that russians are free and did we asked that saudies were free and did we asked what is that khomenie want and did we knew him and did we knew why he is against the shah and did any one told us that he was against womens right and he was against the land reform for poor and did we knew that he was nobody but brainless cleric and popet of lanlords and BP , did any one of us thought why we should go backward and destroy the 50 year of modernity. SHAH was Iranian who cared about his country and there was a cold war and western countries wanted weak Iran and soviet wanted merge Iran part of their empire and arabs hated Iran for social and every other freedom had and they always hated Iran being strong and modern and educated. my country man and women don't blame shah blame urself or your parents being short minded. MAY GOD BLESS HIS SOLE AND REST IN PEACE AND MAY GOD BLESS OUR NATION AND MOTHERLAND IRAN.


Demo

بیائیم دگر «مرده» زندگی نکنیم.

Demo


«در گذشته» یعنی «مرده». پس درگذشته زندگی کردن یعنی بصورت مرده ماندگی. وقت کفن بدر آوردن است. شاه در گذشت  و خمینی هم مرد. خامنه ای هم خو اهد رفت. خوبی و بدگویی هیچکدام را بر نمی گرداند. مهم این است که امروز ما زنده ایم و فقط و فقط عشق و ومحبت و ارتباط بین قلبهای ماست که ما را بصورت یک مجموعه زنده نگاه می دارد. حی (زنده  ابدی)  یکی از صفات خالق ماست و زنده سا ختن و از دنیا بردن فقط و فقط در قدرت اوست.


عموجان

I am so glad

by عموجان on


I was born and grow up when he was in power, to watch how Iran turned from an old to a modern country. Too bad we wanted every thing right away and didn’t have patient now we have too watch it going back ward.  Rohash shad 


Faramarz

The Late Shah's Last Chapter

by Faramarz on

The last few months of Shah’s life were really sad. Even if you are a staunch anti-Shah person, if you step back for a second and look at it in the context of what is happening in Iran today, you would feel very sorry for him and his family.

He desperately needed medical attention for his cancer, but the US was off limits for him. He spent a few weeks or months in Bahamas, Mexico, Panama and finally Egypt. Everywhere he went there were the demands for money from all sorts of people. There was also the constant threat of Carter making a deal with Ghotbzadeh and the gang in Tehran for the release of the hostages in exchange for the extradition of the Shah.

The Panamanian strongman General Torrijos was not a good host either. Kissinger and Rockefeller were of no help after the demise of Nixon. Thatcher and the Europeans looked the other way. Finally it was Sadat’s wife who invited them back to Egypt. Carter was against it because of the delicate peace between Sadat and Begin.

The trip to Egypt with a re-fueling stop at the Azores was another sad chapter in this saga. The plane was held in Azores on the tarmac for 8 hours while Hamilton Jordan was making a deal with Ghotbzadeh. At the end, there were no deals and the plane took off.


Farah Rusta

Something to soothe SP's wounds

by Farah Rusta on

Dear Maryam and Prophet

 

Thank you for your kind words. Thought to dedicate this to SP, No Fear, Q and all the wounded souls whose names escape me:

//www.youtube.com/watch?v=0raYvN3AsXU

Enjoy it babies!

 

FR


Veiled Prophet of Khorasan

Farah Jan

by Veiled Prophet of Khorasan on

 

Harsh on the tahgord!! You are absolutely right but give the poor thing a break. Now he has to spend another 20 K just going to his shrink. You did put the finger on all the right points.

Thanks


Maryam Hojjat

Farah Rusta, Thank you for

by Maryam Hojjat on

your response to Tahgord P.  I hope with your response to him may be he wakes up from his dream and act differently.


Veiled Prophet of Khorasan

Maryam Jan

by Veiled Prophet of Khorasan on

 

Yes, the Shah made those mistakes. He tried to use the Mollahs and actually believed in the Islamic BS. What a mistake. If he had followed his father's path there would be no IRI. 

Next real leader should do a lot more than restricting the Akhoonds. 


Maryam Hojjat

Shah was IRAN's Lover but

by Maryam Hojjat on

made some mistakes which caused us today's situation. He must have respected constitution revolution of 1906 and must have restricted all the akhoonds' activities instead of unleashing them.


Veiled Prophet of Khorasan

Responses

by Veiled Prophet of Khorasan on

 

The Shah was a flawed man. But he was a real patriotic Iranian. Which is more than I can say for IRI. Yes he made mistakes but he wanted the best for us all. 

Bfarahmand is right the British had a big hand in overthrowing the Shah. Our family had dealings with them. I know as a fact that they were undermining the Shah. Bastards even bragged about it.

So did the Americans with Jimmy ""Dihimmi" Carter. So next time someone wants me to "thank the  Americans" I say thanks a lot for: bringing Khomeini; for encouraging Saddam to attack Iran; for selling weapons and chemicals to him; for shooting down our jet liner.Wonderful. If we had the Shah none of that crap would have happened. Yes I take Shah any day over the vermin now running Iran.


Farah Rusta

Dear Babak

by Farah Rusta on

You are so kind an generous.

Sargord and many others like him are the hapless wounded children of an unlucky bunch who joined the Pahlavi system not out of a desire to serve their country but out of serving their own greed and selfish needs. Sadly for them, soon their gamble failed and they had to pack their bags and find a safe hideout. Now these poor children have to pay te price for their parents failure. They have to pretend to be what they are not: IRI supporters. They know not what the Islamic regime is or how it was formed in the first place. All they know is that it was/is anti-Pahlavi and for their little brains this is enough to make them side with the regime of Tehran.  

The more they rant and wriggle, the deeper must have been their wounds that after three decades remain unhealed.

Well, the more I hear of their howling, the more convinced I am that their suffering is just (with a smirk on my face!).

 

Once again thanks for your feedback.

FR


Parthianshot91

Parthian

by Parthianshot91 on

 What was he supposed to do at that time? If he slaughtered the vile rioters then the whole country, even his supporters would have turned against him without a doubt, imagine if you were in that situation. He wanted the best for his country and he did all he could in his power to achieve it, and that's why you should respect the man instead of cursing and cussing, especially at a man who has passed away. In many areas, like dealing with the islamists, Americans, English, he lacked knowledge, I'll admit that, but the man always wanted the best for his nation and people no matter what. This sort of stuff happened more than you can imagine in history. 

 

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"They are not afraid of the ideology alone, but of the detemination and will of the men behind it"


Parthian

it must be the loser iranian of the day today

by Parthian on

What is going on IC? are we celebrating losers. First that blood sucker narcissist Khamenei gets two squares on top, then we have this weak, Persian king wanna be egomaniac taking another square on top. We must be celebrating the losers of the day today. 

This guy was no king, certainly not an Iranian king. To see so many of my good fellow Iranian call him a great man makes me sick. This guy is the reason why we are here today. History does not happen in vacuum. He unleashed the mullahs on Iran, then left the country and many good  men around to be massacred by tazis.  He lives in infamy like Darius III.


payam s

The blood sucker of the century is dead. Too funny.

by payam s on

"He died on the 27 of July of 1980. President Saddat gave him a state funeral, but few of his former allies attended. Radio Tehran announced his death with the words: 'the blood sucker of the century is dead.'" For some reason I couldn't stop laughing after hearing this. To hear these word amidst such an emotional eulogy riddled with inaccuracies felt like an intense, and intensely humorous catharsis; through painful laughter of course.


iamfine

what a great man

by iamfine on

Those bastard "British" contributed to bring revolution in the country.I am proud of him (shahanshah) and god bless his soul (ravanash shoud). Yazdi and ghotbzadeh both were the agents (vatanfroush).


Manam_Babak

Farah Rusta

by Manam_Babak on

Not very often, but times like this when I see people like you I am happy to be an Iranian. If you have written books or articles, please let us know, I'm sure it intresting to read.

 

Keep on writing

I for one enjoyed it!


13th Legion

Very Important Historical clips that must NOT be forgotten

by 13th Legion on

May his soul rest in peace and his memory live on, by far him and his father were the best things that happened to Iran during its contemporary and modern history, Reza Khan and Shah Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi were indeed a true nationalist, they were the true revolutionaries whom in a short period of 50 years tried so hard to propel one of the most backward countries in the middle east into modernity, prosperity and beyond. I see the shah has a great visionary whom dared to achieve what seemed to be the imposable, possible, to restore the old glory of this land and its people to transform a third world nation into a modern day super power but the sad truth is that perhaps a great majority of his people were not ready for such a transformation for as they say: you can take the kid out of the ghetto, but you cannot take the ghetto out of the kid!”

Despite the tireless efforts of these great leaders, father and son, I have came to believe that there were 2 main reasons he did not win this race against time, 1.the majority of his people were not mentally and culturally ready for such a change in such a grand scale 2. Due to the limitations and necessity of time and place He may have come to power with the assistance of western powers but a true nationalist that he was he decided that he was no longer going to play hard ball with western powers and allow the country and its resources (OIL) to be exploited and manipulated and perhaps that was the beginning to his end. No doubt the west wanted cheap oil and also greatly feared the emergence of a 2nd Japan in the region!

I greatly regret the fact that he did not dispose of Khomeini and his little troll of followers early on!

Now days it is not a great secret that western powers at the time along with domestic group of traitors contributed to a very organized and expensive Orchestrated Conspiracy against the nation and its national interests for this so called revolution to come about, the sad thing is that the majority of uneducated Iranians were stupid enough to buy into it and go for it!

I have no doubt, this will pass as well, and we will live to see a new day and a new dawn for Iran.

and  as far as I am concerned those who bad mouth the late great king are not even worthy of kissing the bones on his ass, you can go on with your cheap slanders that originate from your sick little third world minds that are clouded by ignorance of centuries past but the reality is that you will NEVER be anything close to even half the man the shah was the fact is that he was able to do many great things in his life time but the likes of you cannot go beyond typing a few worthless comments that will make NO difference in this world what’s so ever  (zero) but Shah’s name will live, grow , shine and echo throughout history and will only add to his greatness and value as time goes on ;)


Everybody Loves Somebody Sometime

God bless him but he should have unleashed his

by Everybody Loves Somebody ... on

military might on the barbaric commies and Islamic terrorists.

He should have massacred the SOB's!


Benyamin

I AM SORRY TO SEE THIS

by Benyamin on

 Although I prefered to watch this over the one Khameneii`s speech but I am sorry to watch this one as well.

I just wish he would have respected the mashrootiat wholeheartedly and he wouldn`t have betrayed it.

I wish Mosadegh would have stood on and ran the country for the good of the people.

I wish no one would have been tortured.

But he could see the future so clearly when he used words like "terrorism" like "nazism" and I believe that he regreted alot of things he did and the ones he didn`t.

I just hope for a prosperes and "awbaad" Iran in which everyone`s right is restored and respected under a charter of human rights.

aamin


Farah Rusta

Sargord joon, how I feel for you darling but ...

by Farah Rusta on

you are getting so incredibly boring and monotonic. Don't you have anything different to say?

 

Be a man, a real man for once and don't moan so much about your family's sufferings in the hands of the Shah.  I know that no wound is deeper than being dumped and humiliated by your master after years of subservience as your Granpa and Pa were. But darling incompetence knows no bounds. Once you cooperated with a regime that is not necessarily a meritocracy you must accept that one day, your incomptenece will be exposed and you would feel the boot in the back side. And that is what happened to your poor and wrteched Pa and Granpa.

Oh darling their wounds must have been so incurably deep and excruciatingly painful that even after three decades their second generation, meaning you sweetie, is screaming with pain.You may be living in the comfort of the US of A but the devastating blow to your miserable family's morale and dignity knows no distance and this is why every time you see the face of His Majesty the memories of your ancestors most devastating losses and unbearable dishonourable discharge invade your mind you makes you react they way you do.

 

Oh, poor baby you are the child of the most disgracefully jettisoned in the history military and civilian  dishonourable dismissals.

People, please have mercy of this wretched soul, he is innocent as he is a by-product of his fathers ineptitude.

Oh, your Majesty, I hope you realise what you have done to these most undeserving servants of yours and their family though I am sure in your wisdom you did the right thing your Majesty.

So,  Sargord baby, as the as the song goes,:hush little baby, dont you cry!

 

FR


mahmoudg

god bless this great man

by mahmoudg on

comapred to the morons and leeches that have succeeded him, he was the greatest.


maziar 58

regular

by maziar 58 on

nonsense from our sar (tah)gord.

wish you the best in your life with a newer bike paid by the stupid mollahs.           Maziar


afshinazad

God bless your sole shah a shahan

by afshinazad on

I have regrad that why he didn't order to kill all those traitors who came out and destroyed our country and now our people and country in verge of destruction and we have lost more than million in war and tens of thousand has been killed by islamist fascist regime.The shah was betrayed not only by own people because never knew what are they going to have and never knew that they will regrad for rest of their life and he was betrayed by allies who supported the satanic old man who had one mission to destroy the Iran. those of us which seen and lived in shah time always will regrad what we have lost and who we have lost. it has been hard for so many of us to lose the country and people that we loved so much and ofcourse for some people like SARGORD PISS which they love to see the country on its knee because people like him are traitors who are popets of British and american and they are the one who enjoying weak Iran and dictatorship and they given our wealth to them for free. long live IRAN.


Sargord Pirouz

Remember the soundtrack of

by Sargord Pirouz on

Remember the soundtrack of the Flintstones when something bad happened to Fred? It went wah WAH wah.

Fitting soundtrack for these pitiful clips.