Making of an Iranian Chalabi

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Making of an Iranian Chalabi
by capt_ayhab
28-Apr-2010
 

Prague Democracy and Security conference and Nomination of Reza Pahlavi as Iranian Chalabi.

Background:

On March 5, 2001 in an article written with Pennsylvania State business professor Fariborz Ghadar, he advocated a number of the policies that have since been carried out by the US, including containing the Taleban and Saddam Hoseyn. He also notes that supporting a secularisation of Iran would lead to easier transport of Caspian oil through Iranian territory.
Well before Professor Ghadar published his report, the foundation of move on regime change was being poured by Neoconservative and AIPAC.

Making of an Iranian Chalabi:

"The form of government would be a Constitutional Monarchy, with the Head of State being Reza Pahlavi, son of the former Shah, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, who was deposed in the 1978-79 Islamic revolution, and Sohrab Sobhani as his Prime Minister", Mr. Beeman wrote.

"The Bush Administration apparently has a handpicked American "plumber" ready to go in Iran, much like Ahmed Chalabi (the leader of the Defence Department-backed Iraqi National Congress) in Iraq. This is Sohrab "Rob" Sobhani, an Iranian-American associated with the neoconservatives in Washington. With Reza Pahlavi as Shah, the 40-ish Sobhani would presumably be prime minister or president", he prognosticated.

As in his previous article published by the Beirut-based The Daily Star, (see IPS's "America's Case Against Iran Is Full Of Holes"), the scholar names Mr. Michael Ledeen, a tough-tongue historian and journalist as the "promoter" of the "Restore Monarchy" project.

"The promoter of the Administration policy is American Enterprise Institute Freedom Chair Holder Michael Ledeen, who has written and lectured obsessively about regime change in Iran. Ledeen was reported by The Washington Post to be one of four advisers in regular consultation with White House strategist, Karl Rove", Mr. Beeman said, adding that Ledeen and Sobhani recently established the Coalition for Democracy in Iran (CDI) to promote this regime change.

Sobhani's interests in regime change are very clear and very consonant with American desires. They are largely commercial. Following his graduation from Georgetown, he became head of a Caspian Energy Consulting, a firm dealing with the transport and sale of Caspian oil.

Ledeen, Sobhani and Morris Amitay, former director of the principal Israeli lobbying group, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) joined forces at the American Enterprise Institute in a seminar entitled The Future of Iran, in which they called for regime change. AIPAC has indicated support for the restoration of Reza Pahlavi to the throne, although they wish to remain in the background, as reported by Mark Perelman on 16 May in The New York Jewish Daily Forward.

A strong Israeli connection was apparent here. According to Perelman, Pahlavi has had direct contacts with the Israeli leadership: "During the last two years ... [Pahlavi] has met privately with Prime Minister Sharon and former prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, as well as Israel's Iranian-born president, Moshe Katsav."

Fast Foreword to 2007 and Prague Democracy and Security conference.

Jim Lobe of Global Research, wrote these on June 16, 2007 issue:

[A closer look at the participants list at the Prague Democracy and Security conference that was the subject of my last post discloses some intriguing associations that I had not noticed at first glance but which may warrant additional attention. Not only was the gathering a kind of “Neo-Conservative International” and the corridor chatter all about Iran, as Anne Bayefsky reported in the National Review Online, but some of the participants appear to be institutionally inter-related in ways that I had not anticipated.

First, focused as I am on U.S. foreign policy, I failed to note the presence of a couple of people who should have been further identified; namely, Richard Dearlove, who, as head of Britain’s MI6 (2001-2004), purportedly authored the infamous “Downing Street Memo” and, after his retirement, joined the Henry Jackson Society, a mainly British version of the Project for the New American Century (PNAC); and Uzi Arad, currently the director of Israel’s Institute for Policy and Strategy, who served as Binyamin Netanyahu’s top foreign policy adviser when he was prime minister.

But these two, like the American Enterprise Institute’s (AEI) Richard Perle, are relatively well known, as, of course, were other participants I noted in the last post, including the other four members of the AEI delegation, Karen Hughes, Reza Pahlavi, and the conference convenors — former Czech President Vaclav Havel, former Spanish Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar, and Natan Sharansky, the former Soviet dissident and Likud minister who broke with Ariel Sharon over his disengagement from Gaza and who now heads the Adelson Institute of the Shalem Center, a Likudist think tank close to Netanyahu.]

References:
//www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&...
//www.democracyandsecurity.org/doc/List_of_Pa...
//www.forward.com/articles/8902/
//www.antiwar.com/orig/mearwalt.php?articleid...
//www.thornwalker.com/ditch/snieg_future.htm
//www.payvand.com/news/03/may/1139.html
//www.rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/Coaliti...
//www.sott.net/articles/show/187564-Washingto...
The Daily Star published this article on its 2 June issue

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"Hilarious stuff! Yeah, during the protests last year, there were placards of Prince Chubby all over Tehran! "

People dared to carry Mousavi placards because they felt at least some sort of protection, as Mousavi was from the system itself.

Carrying RP, Mossadegh, Bakhtiar, Osaanlou, or other similiar people would automatically result to a death sentence.

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Benross, in your "referendum" you are not even mentioning the Secular Republic (Jomhoory)?  How come?

Because it's not there!

Referendum is by definition, a snap election with very limited options. A selection between two already defined entities. Referendum I'm talking about is a choice between two historic document, already existing, each representing a historic period with a historic content. In my view, the first one is representing modernity, the second one anti-modernity. People judge for themselves the value of each historic period, with their positive and negative sides. 

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See links and comment below to find out how Prof. Beeman came up with that brain fart.

His email address is listed if you like to contact him directly.

These are summary of his specialties:

Specialties
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Source of the photo

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Source of the photo along with article by William O. Beeman of Signs of The Time.

A reprint of article published in Daily Star.

Editor's note: Mr. William O. Beeman (William_beeman@brown.edu)
teaches anthropology and is Director of Middle East Studies at Brown
University.

The Daily Star published this article on its 2 June issue

//www.sott.net/articles/show/187564-Washingto...

Bio of William O. Beeman can be seen :

//anthropology.umn.edu/people/profile.php?UID...

 

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Societies and governments evolve to better serve the needs of a nation.
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Besides, when we talk about a country of like ours, since the society is
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Sargord, do you live in Iran?

Exir, how do you know for sure the photo is fake?

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Thanks for the Info !

Frost over the world - Vaclav Havel - 26 Sep 08:

//www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qTOwePM58M

Frost Over the World- Reza Pahlavi - 22 nov 08:

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VPK, just make sure that The Monarchy like the last go around would not want a substantial cut of that Outsourcing company you want to open.  VPK jaan, please remember, it was not for nothing that there was an uprising in 1979.

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If my body dies, let my body die, but do not let my country die.


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As I said before, for 30 years these assholes couldn't come-up talking about something else! And there is a good reason for that...

"The form of government would be a Constitutional Monarchy, with the Head of State being Reza Pahlavi, son of the former Shah, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, who was deposed in the 1978-79 Islamic revolution, and Sohrab Sobhani as his Prime Minister"

Who's brain storm was that? This IS our legitimate constitution and he IS our legitimate monarch.


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What's your excuse?

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The photo is fake.


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Big Deal So did the World's First Zionist ... ;0)

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Cyrus the Great :

//www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4_4QC3xXBI

So the Israelis owe us a minimum of recognition in Return to say the least ...

I won't bother reminding you of my comments regarding Your Repeated Obssession with wanting to connect RP's Agenda with that of the Neo Cons ... People who follow our exchanges on this very subject  should remember it quite well or can search for them elsewhere ...

Nice Try Capt But Even Your Sinking Ship filled with nothing but Baseless Arguments as a substitute to suicidal Passengers deserves a Better Captain :

//www.youtube.com/watch?v=saalGKY7ifU

Oh ... and if you have a difficulty to understand my comment above ... For your information ... It's called a Metaphor ! ...

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