Papers reveal Britain's anxiety over Iranian Shah
BBC
29-Dec-2009 (2 comments)

Britain despatched an undercover diplomat on a covert mission to the Bahamas to convince the deposed Shah of Iran not to seek to settle in the UK.

The revelation comes in official archive documents made public 30 years after they were written.

The 1979 papers reveal that the British government was very concerned that Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi, then in exile, would seek to live in England.

But Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was upset she could not help the Shah.

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I had read about Thatcher's admiration for the Shah

by Darius Kadivar on Wed Dec 30, 2009 06:02 AM PST

a few years ago. She had met him a few times and like Ronald Reagan had traveled to Iran on several occasions. Probably the Shah also had helped them financially campaigning to be elected.

Reagan on the Shah of Iran:

//www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5Ae5FRHH0k

So did Ted Kennedy by the way who ran against Jimmy Carter despite being a Democrat:

DIPLOMATIC HISTORY: Edward (Ted) Kennedy visits Shah of Iran (1975)

This was all before the Neo Conservative Revolution of the 1980's that led to the great British American Alliance on nearly all issues  from economy to Foreign Relations which with it's share of excess's nevertheless was particularly  usefull in exhausting the Soviet empire and bring it to it's knees with the positive result the world finally acknowledged two decades later on the anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.

What many historians refused to acknowledge at the time of the Shah's fall was that he was probably one of the ignored architects of the Egyptian Israeli Peace Treaty of 1977 at Camp David.

Everyone from Begin, Carter and Sadat were to be hailed and congratulated with the Nobel Peace Prize but the person who truly contributed to this was the Shah who played the intermediary by convicing Sadat of the necessity to seek peace with Israel and to focus on developing a constructive relation with the West by distancing Egypt from the Soviet influence. People like Rabin, Begin and Sadat would hold secret talks in Tehran or on the Caspian Sea at the Shah's Residences to speak at ease on how to find a compromise to put an end to the Israeli Arab conflict.

The Revolution of 1979 put an end to this constructive relation and we saw the result with the assassination of Sadat in Cairo in 1980 ( masterminded by those who were  to become the leaders of the Al Qaeda Wahhabit movements).  

Yasser Arafat Hails Iranian Revolution:

//www.youtube.com/watch?v=65xpvmCsm-c

Sadat and the Shah both believed in constructive nationalism which later was dubbed "positive nationalism" by the Shah. To defend our national interests while maintaing firm yet good relations with our partners especially when our national interests were at stake. the Oil became a useful arm aimed not at war but as a way of imposing pressure on our economic partners when they tended to consider us as pawns or cheap allies.

The Shah was No Puppet. History seems to confirm it today as more and more secret documents are being unfolded after 30 years for historians to study.

Instead the Nobel Peace Prize went to Arafat, Rabin and Clinton in the late 1990's again with the assassination of Rabin (this time by Israeli extremists)  ... 

History is Unjust with those who Lose ...

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English breakfast: Reflections on Sir David Frost's interview with Farah Pahlavi By Cyrus KADIVAR

A Queen's Loyalty by Darius Kadivar


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Darius Kadivar

FYI/Tea with former British ambassador to Iran by Cyrus KADIVAR

by Darius Kadivar on Wed Dec 30, 2009 03:16 AM PST

Interview with Sir Denis Wright Mentioned in following article:

Our best bet: Tea with former British ambassador to Iran Sir Denis Wright by Cyrus KADIVAR


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