Hearts & minds

Book from Pahlavi era

by Darius Kadivar
07-Nov-2007
 
"Hokoomat bar Delhaa" (Ruling over Hearts) was published in 1956 to promote Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi.
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Why are Shahi's like this

by Alborzi (not verified) on

I bet you the previous guy never gave to Shah to know that his dool was 6", yet he talks of it, so what gives.
What makes Shahi's so. The answer is that they make an idol
in their mind and they start to love him. The guy probably can only handle 6" dools, so his idol has 6". The guy was an imbecile, he could not understand the problems the society
was having so he just ignored it. He taught the mullahs to shutdown opposition papers, he taught them to ignore laws and taught them to ignore rights. Now the Shahis will give you the good examples, just like the whites in USA who were totally blind to black demands, the Shahis just never got it.
Now for a good time, you can go visit
//www.bakhtiarifamily.com/soraya.php

did she ever appear in play boy, what a waste.


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God Bless the Mullahs

by Mullah Lover (not verified) on

who on a daily basis butt-tajavoz people like Arezu.
And people like Arze ask for more and more. Shah's dool was only 6" long. Arezu likes a 12" dool. One in her koss and one her koon.

God Bless the mullahs


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To: Colonel Hemayat

by Arezu (not verified) on

If you have one demonstration of the "Shah's" benevolence to an Iranian girl from Ahwaz taken by a Kuwaiti Sheikh and how the magnanimous Shahanshah Aryamehr saved her, we can give you thousands when he turned a blind eye to crimes committed by his own friends and cronies (women who were raped, their bodies mutilated but the murderers forgiven) and his brutal SAVAK. Please do not portray him as a benevolent dictator for he was not!!

I used to think like you, until I realized the brutality of his regime and the weakness of his personality.

The Shah had ultimate control over the judiciary, over the parliament, over the armed forces, he was an absolute dictator!! He was a megalomaniac who vied for power, a man with a Napoleonic complex; but too weak to stand up to the U.S. The U.S. knew his weakness, which is why they coined the term for him “Policeman of the Middle East”. They fed his bloated ego – while they were stealing Iran’s resources.

Go and hang up his majesties picture in your house and bow down and kiss the dead. However, please do not preach to us about what kind of a ruler the Shah was.

During his reign less than 5% of the population had literacy, Iranian villages had no electricity or basic needs, the peasants had their lands taken away from them during the so called “White Revolution” when he was begging JFK for money. Our agricultural lands were taken away from the landowners and given to the Pahlavi Foundation and the U.S. multi-national corporations and agri-businesses. Iran’s agriculture totally collapsed. A country which at one point was agriculturally independent needed to import its grain from the U.S. We couldn’t feed our own people. The peasants had to leave their lands and seek jobs in major cities (i.e. Tehran), where there was none to accommodate them. Corruption was rampant, as he dolled up contracts to his family members, the Diba family, and other cronies who surrounded him. He was totally out of touch with his people, did not want to hear the truth, only praise about himself. Even his cronies realized this, and in order to steal, they fed his ego as well!!

He was an arrogant self-absorbed individual. There is no need to discuss the crimes committed by the Pahlavi Regime, books have been written about it, documents are there to prove it, and people who lived during his reign can recount them.

Now if you and many other Monarchists are taken up by the fancy clothes that the Emperor wore, and this is what you miss - remember the story– the Emperor had no clothes. It was only a shallow empty façade!


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Monarchy is dead, let his poor sould rest in peace

by Arezu (not verified) on

Pro Shah or anti-Shah, doesn't matter. Monarchy is dead and done with!! It will never return back to Iran. As such, leave the poor Shah out of your discussions and let his soul rest in peace.

For all of those Monarchists who love a one man rule, with absolute power, and commander in chief of the armed forces similar to President Musharraf of Pakistan just look at his destiny!! Those days are gone and done with. This is the destiny of any leader who surrenders control to the U.S.A or any foreign power and becomes a puppet. Unfortunately, to his and the Iranian nations detriment, this was the problem with the Shah. Could have, should have, would have doesn't matter - he did not place Iran above everything else and when he came to undo his wrong it was just too late.

The Shah is no comparison in my view to Saddam. However, Saddam had more courage than the Shah; at least he remained in Iraq and didn't bend his head even when they were executing him. A true commander in chief, doesn't leave his soldiers behind, and let them get executed while he flees the counrty.


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Ghorbune dahanet jesus joon.

by Anonymous34344 (not verified) on

Ghorbune dahanet jesus joon. Mishe intori bahat harf zad? Don't forget to mention that foreign powers had a lot to do with what happend to us. And are now planning another round of destruction.


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shah was a brutal dictator, and one of the main root causes....

by Jesus (not verified) on

The root cause of the 1979 "islamic" revolution was a preceding environment of dictatorship, brutal and suffocating political envirnoment, a sick, megalomaniac leader who dared to see and compare himself to some of the greatest heros, and legends of our nation.
Did he build a strong army? Yes and no! It was an army that could withstand an external regional threat, but was second or third rated at best. The Iranian military lacked disciplined, was fragmented, and I hate to say it, lacked courage. I say this having had family members executed during the revolution because they were in the Imperial guards.
An army that is devoted to a man rather than a nation is by default an extermely weak army in face of a intense onslaught. This is particularly a problem when the weakest link of the army is the man the army is supposed to be devoted to.
Regardless, a great or weak army does not make a nation. There were huge problems with the Shah of Iran, his domestic, and foreign policies.
Having said that, I take him any day, and twice on sunday over these arab islamo-fascists who are destroying the very fiber of the nation of Iran.
It is absolutely absurd, I mean one must be living in another planet to compare this fascist regime with the previous regime.
IR is a unique dictatorship, and when it comes to brutality, one can has to go back to the era of mongol invasion to see so many Iranians killed at the hands of such brutal force.
This includes the so called reformer side of the coin as well.
But than again, revolutions don't happen in a vacuum, and we must hold shah responsible for what happened in 1979.


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Alborzi Why do you

by Ardeshir Keyvan (not verified) on

Alborzi

Why do you categorize monarchists and Mojahedin together? Since the Shah's oppositions that Mojahedin were part of it were allies and more or less had and have the same ideology. All of them had and have a leader or hero and unfortunately some of those leaders even were not or are not Iranian.
If one single group of Shah's opponents believed in democracy you could claim Shah's regime was bad. Don't even think about "Mosadeghis" because they were the worst.

Take a look to the literature that belongs to that era they used to humiliate 'liberal Democracy" in the west.

Shah was the best for Iran in that era and maybe still is.
You never will see Iran like those days. He brought Iran from nothing to a well respected country.
However everybody is entitled to have their own opinion.


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some people are totaly stupid

by MRX (not verified) on

it was the great Reza shah that started building a modern Army in Iran and it was the shah that continued to strenghten it by purchasing all the militery equipment and training fine officers. with out it Iraq would have anexed parts of Iran for ever you bone heads! It was thousands of sorties by the great Imerial Iranian Air force that tuned the tide of the war in Iran's favor.
Some one said it beautiflly in here "Khalyegh harche layegh". sadly mostly of you do not deserve anything better than current islamo facist rulers or the commi's in the form of mojahed, fadayee and shit like that. enjoy it!


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Get what you deserve!

by Kamangir on

Ianians do deserve the 'shepeshoo' mullahs and ahmadinejad. Az mast ke bar mast. You didn't deserve the Pahlevis, you get what you reallr deserve.  Therefore, enjoy it!


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Its like singing yassin to donkey

by Alborzi (not verified) on

Its really interesting the Shahis and MKO are both like a cult, you can spend hours reasoning how Rajavi is like Shah and Maryam (who was elected by no one, nada, zippo ) is like the jendehs , but it will not change anything. Its kind of religious issue for them, its really simple just ask jose if shah was so good how come you are ffffffg here? and listen to excuses, he trusted them .... Then tell em go give.


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shah bedoone shak yek mihan

by yek iraniye waghe-bin (not verified) on

shah bedoone shak yek mihan paraste waghee bood. moshkel ma dar in bood keh doshmanhaaye besyaar dashtim ke besadegi mitoonestand az sadeh lohiye besyari az iraniha estefadeh konand va mozakhrafate khodeshoono be jaye haghighat ghaleb konand.

az tarafe digeh, iranihaye ahmagh ham dar hameye sotoohe ejtema kam naboodand (hamintor ke dar inja ham mibinim) ke bazicheye daste in doshmanha beshan. shah fekr mikard bad az oon hameh talash va kar dar zamane reza shahe bozorg va dar zamane khodesh digeh iraniha agah shodan va mishe beheshoon etemad kardo karha ro be dasteshoon sepord. moteasefaneh besyari az iraniha neshoon dadan keh agahi va liyaghate lazem ro nadarand. dorost dar hamoon zamanikeh rahbare keshvar be poshtibaniye mardomesh niyaz dasht, besyari az mardom behesh posht kardan va khiyanat kardan be keshvare khodeshoon.

tarikhe 30 sale gozashteh neshoon mideh keh edareye keshvari mesle iran kare har kas nist. vaziyate emrooze iran besyar bad tar az zamane hamleye moghol shodeh. yek edeh dozd va jenayatkar bar jan va zendegiye mardom hakem shodand va bejoz ounhaayee keh az ghebale in dozdha daramadi darand, hich iranye wagheyee az ounha hemayat nemikoneh.


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To: Alborzi, Markux, Faribors MD and all those who .....

by Iran parast (not verified) on

To: Alborzi, Markux, Faribors Md and all those who are blind to see how much Iran owed its Army, before the revolution and then during the war with Iraq,..

Take a good look at yourselves and your mentality is responsible for a lot of what has happened in Iran in the past 30 or so. You deserve what you have got but it is a shame a lot of innocent Iranians had to lose their lives because "AHMAGHs" like you.
Go back and live in the Iran that your mentality has helped to create.


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That was the major failing

by alborzi (not verified) on

I do not wish to reply to the shahi's in my view they
are too similar to mujaheds, their master is just different.
The mujaheds used to kill the Americans, now are their buddies, go figure.

But back to the education, when Khomeini came to power, after a few days he knew he had to get rid of his number 1 supporter the mojaheddin, he did it decisively. It was very hard they assassinated presidents, prime ministers and many more, but what was necessary was done, now compare that to the idiot who left Iran because Carter "told" him. And thats the other way shahi's are like MKO they bring excuses rather than say that is the way.


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NOOR..................

by Faribors Maleknasri M.D. (not verified) on

the problem is: He had not the authority to decide anything at all. His Chiefs knew that killing bring not the lost wealth back. President carter said on january 15th 1979: it is better if shah goes. he went on january 16th. so was it. greetings


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This backward looking must stop

by markux (not verified) on

Stop this SHIT about the crappy past. Look for the future. This is sickness. Those who can not free themselves from this shah virus need to seek medical help or some kind of help. We should know that all monarchies are illegitimate. Read Thomas Paine for God sakes if you can't think for yourself. Can't say it enough. THIS IS A SICKNESS.


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Sarhang Hemayat is a true shah's soldure

by Sarhang hemayat (not verified) on

man to artesh khedmat kardam va raftare in jakesho ro didam ba oon sarbazaye dehati bichareh. alaveh bar kotak fohshaye rakike khaharo madar ham midadand. tof be har chi afsare kasife shah. ajab khar kosehayee boodand. dame khomeini garm ke dahane hamatoono service kard. in martikeh ba in seno salesh bebin chetor fohsh mideh. vaghean ke shahi hasti fosil.


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"KHALAAYEGH HAR CHEH LAYEGH"

by Bitarafam (not verified) on

With all his faults, Shah was a patriot and he did a massive amount of good for Iran and he didn't want to lenghten his rule by killing the opposition. This is a matter of record. And this is exactly what the IRI does, in such huge numbers that makes Shah's human rights abuses look like a garden party.
But looking at so many of these comments here, and they are supposed to be from educated Iranians, I can easily see why Iran is in such a mess today and then the old Persian saying applies, "KHALAAYEGH HAR CHEH LAYEGH".
The large majority of Iranians are incapable of making unbiased judgements and it is hard to see why they should deserve anything better than Khomeini, Khamenei, Khalkhali, Ahmadinejad, Rafsanjani.......


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Chaapid shaah chaapid

by Jujeh shaah MD (not verified) on

Chaapid shaah chaapid shaah
Mamdali shaah, Rezaa shaah, mamali
har 3 tu khake qorbat
chaapid shaah chaapid shaah


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Javid Shah Javid Shah Yek

by Anonymous34344 (not verified) on

Javid Shah Javid Shah
Yek mellato gaeed shah


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Too bad General Khosrowdad was not given the order to

by General Xerxes (not verified) on

put the subversives down!? Otherwise, Iran would have been a different place today!

God Bless the Iranian Imperial Armed Forces


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To Colnel Hemayat

by HRA (not verified) on

.. damet garm ... zendeh bashi .. and hail to the brave Imperial Iranian Army!


Midwesty

Just tell you a short memory to make you proud...

by Midwesty on

I had a American co-worker who used to be a fighter jet's pilot in USAF. As soon as he learned about my nationality he told me that he used see a lot of Iranian pilots back when he was training. He said American pilots used have the worst shif of classes, the third shift. He said he was wondering why on earth he couldn't take any classes during day. So he went to the admin and asked why? They showed him all the classes' schedules. Guess what? First shift was for Iranian pilots trainees, second shift Israeli pilots, third shift was Americans'. But please don't have this as a excuse and start another fight... 


Midwesty

I didn't say that to start a war between you guys...

by Midwesty on

What a waste of time and energy. Reality speaks for itself.


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Re: Alborzi

by Anonymous1234 (not verified) on

Ahamagh one more note for you. You say that Japan didn't have native industry? YOU STUPID IDIOT... Japan was so advanced it could launch a war against the USA, it had one of the strongest military and none military infrastructure in the world.


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Re: Alborzi

by Anonymous1234 (not verified) on

Ablah you refer to the number of doctors in Iran and coverage for medicine and so on and you show it off. Iran would have even better ones if the Pahlavis had remained in power.

The problem is that the shah should have thrown you bastards out of the country.


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NOOR NOOR NOOR on your grave.

by pashmak (not verified) on

He was a great man with good INTENTIONS.
He could kill people and stay longer.
He chose to leave the judgment to history and us.


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colonel hemayat

by Jende69 (not verified) on

dear colonel hemayat,

wtf are you talking about when you say that the royal military training and staff is what got iran through the iran-iraq war? iran would've been a part of iraq right now if it wasn't for the hundreds of thousands of basijis that gave their lives. as for the imperial military generals, nearly all of them were executed after the revolution. on drugs?


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How did Japan became Japan

by Alborzi (not verified) on

I normally do not answer to idiot Shahi's, but
Japan was an interesting memory. It was used all the time,
even by the coward himself. But Japan did not have money to go buy everything from west and have no native industry.
As much as Shahi's hate Arabs, Shah acted precisely like them, he was buying all the junk from west that he could, he was an idiot. Have you guys ridden the metro in Tehran, do you like the number of doctors practicing in Iran (the quality may not be as good as an American doctor) but there
is socialized medicene and every one is covered. Anyway,
if you think there is ever going to be monarchy in Iran, go
give to some one.


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eternally in our heart

by pirouz (not verified) on

thank you Darius, these pictures remind me when we were proud Iranians. these past 28 years shows we have to kiss the ground that he walked on.


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aman az daste een shah parastaye piro paataal

by Irooni (not verified) on

eena hamashon ye mosht piro paataaland ke dar yester years darand zendegi mikonand. baba vel konid digeh. ye kam be jelo negah konid. albateh vaseh piro pataalha ayendeh digeh mafhoomee nadareh. its ok, keep day dreaming you old farts. soon you meet your masters.