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17-Sep-2007
…The mind is like a parachute - it works only when it is open…
Don’t ask me why I decided to interview Reza Pahlavi and talk about Iranian football, but I am glad that I did. I always had a fascination to get deep inside of that nostalgic road and question Prince Reza Pahlavi about Iranian football and his recollections of pre-revolutionary Iran.
Truthfully, I also wanted to know what it was like to be the prince of Persia and have unlimited access to A to Z of Iranian football.
So, I finally decided to email his secretariat and send a request. But that was the easy part. The difficult part was my inner instinct preventing me from going through with this. You see, I never told you this but I am against Monarchy all together!
However, my inquisitiveness and curiosity got the best of me and went through it.
I found Mr. Reza Pahlavi to be a passionate, educated and very well informed individual.
And to be very frank with you, even though I may “never” change my mind about monarchy, but as a fellow Iranian and a nationalist, I was genuinely honored to be speaking with such personality!
At least we found one common ground on all this and that is unconditional love for our country.
So, without any further delay I present you with this exclusive interview with the Prince of Persia! (Note: Originally this interview was conducted for another site; however, due to its "sensitive nature" no one wanted to touch it! Finally the interview found a home in iranian.com!)
Arvand,
Ba Salam. Mr. Pahlavi, please talk about your early school days, football, Heshmat Mohajerani, your favorite club (local or foreign), and whatever that comes to mind related to your passion to Iran, Iranian football, and the fans.
Reza Pahlavi,
I have to say that football (or soccer, as it is called here) was definitely my favorite team sports. I played the game, along with my classmates, during most of our school years. I would not be exaggerating if I said that we played over 250 days a year! I have many good memories of playing; not only with my classmates, but also joining an impromptu game with people I would meet during my travels around the country. For instance, playing with locals on Kish Island, our in an Air Force base in Ahvaz, or some village kids in Kalardasht.
The best memories are from the practice sessions we used to have in Sa’ad Abbad with members of the Iranian National Team! This was at the time Heshmat Mohajerani was also coaching my school team. He would bring along players from the national team to play with us. What a treat! How many Iranian teenaged boys would dream of playing with a Hassan Rowshan, Ali Parvin or Nasser Hejazi! I knew how blessed I was to have the opportunity not only to meet our football stars in person, but to actually play with them!
I would often go to various stadiums and watch football games; be it a classic league rivalry game like Taj – Persepolis, or a national team game in friendly or international matches. I would also be present during final matches, be it the youth tournaments, or international events such as the 1974 Asian Olympic Games when Iran faced Israel in the final game.
Arvand,
Your best memory related to the national team. Please explain!
Reza Pahlavi,
This would have to be the game in Aryamehr Stadium in 1977, when Iran faced Kuwait in the preliminary games for World Cup ’78 in Argentina. Wow! 125.000 people in a 100,000-seat stadium!!! The atmosphere was explosive. “Mamad Boughi” outdid himself that day. I could still hear the exhilarating voice of Habibollah Rowshanzadeh shouting: “ Iran yek – Koweit Sefr, Iran yek – Koweit sefr…” when Ghafour Jahani scored. We were one step closer for qualifying for the World Cup for the first time ever.
Later on, when we won against Australia and secured our trip to Buenos Aires, I was elated. I remember an emotional meeting with our squad in Niavaran when I greeted our players and send them off along with our best wishes for success. I also remember that we had to watch the World Cup games, late at night, right in the middle of our final exams, the summer of my high school graduation!
Arvand,
Did you watch the games of 1998 World Cup in France and 2006 World Cup in Germany, and if you did, could you please intricate and compare the two World Cups and Iran’s performance in them? I like to have your detailed emotions and reactions to both events please!
Reza Pahlavi,
Yes, I did. Clearly, we had two different teams in 98 and 06; not in the sense of having many different players, but more in the sense of team chemistry. The 98 team was young, and new stars in the team (some with gained experience from playing in foreign league teams) such as Ali Daei and others where mentally prepared to face their adversaries. Playing in a German league team helps one not to be intimidated when facing the overpowering German National Team, for instance. Anyhow, I sensed much more chemistry in that team. Despite the fact that the team “handlers” had forced our players to stay up late for “prayers” on the eve of the first match against Yugoslavia (if memory servers me right), our boys did pretty well. One successful free kick and the misread of our back-up goalkeeper might have been the difference in qualifying for the next round.
As to the game vs. the U.S. National team, I thought our team maintained its composure throughout the game. I was definitely one of the best games ever played by any Iranian National Soccer Team.
2006, however, was very different. Some of our star players were 8 years older. The chemistry was almost non-existent. They had been rumors of internal dissensions. Not to mention the fact that the overall state of affairs back home had no doubt a lot to do with the moral and spirit of our players. As I watched the first half of our first game against Mexico, I thought we held up their offense pretty successfully, almost to the extent of frustrating them. However, the second half was a disaster. It is as if another team had showed up, or I should say didn’t show up. You could have instructed the players to “throw” the game, and they could not have done any better! I knew right then that there would be no chance for success….
Arvand,
What is your overall opinion on how our national team is being handled right now?
If you were in charge, what would you do to improve the conditions (if any)?
Reza Pahlavi,
It would be impossible to address this question without bringing the country’s political situation into it. I spare you what many Iranians already know. Let me just say that the question is not isolated to the national team, and the staff handling it.
You cannot have many flourishing artist in a country where uninhibited artistic expression is muzzled and severely repressed. The same goes for sports. If the proper infrastructure is not put in place – such as athletic facilities in school and public areas – if economic restrictions makes it very difficult for people to afford the kind of nutrition that any athlete would require to be physically in shape, you cannot expect to have a high quality performance or results. Many countries spend millions of dollars supporting or sponsoring their athletic programs. The clerical regime prefers to spend it on other things… You could have a Franz Beckenbauer managing the Iranian National Team: with limited resource, even he could not work any wonders…
Arvand,
In your opinion, what is the most single important factor in improving the overall state of affairs in Iranian sports in general?
Reza Pahlavi,
Money! Obviously, you should have a combination of:
1) A well organized Ministry of Sports (allocating the necessary budget to various programs and watch for a fair distribution of such funds across the country.
2) Various Federations overseeing their respective sports
3) Private clubs, again in various sports that bring in additional assets via private resources and;
4) Various non-profit or charitable organizations that can subsidize various sport related programs as well as infrastructure, particularly in rural areas and financially restrained communities.
I have left many other things out, but in my view, these are the obvious priorities. I would like to add, however, that no sport program could be successful without the educational and health institutions collaborating. The youth constitute the bulk of one country’s sportsmen or athletes. Our young compatriots would thus have opportunities and a better choice to live healthy and constructive lives. They should dream of success; many of them even of Olympic medals, not wonder about how to get their next fix of heroin in some dark alley…
Arvand,
Please name few of your favorite players who performed for our national team before and after the revolution. I like to know why you have chosen these players to be your favorite.
Reza Pahlavi,
Admittedly, I know more about the players during my youth in Iran than many of our current players. In terms of personal skills, energy level and overall attitude and composure, I remember some of the names that shined the most back in the late sixties and seventies, at least for me: Parvin, Rowshan, Nazari, Hedjazi, Ghelichkhani, Ghassempour, Rashidi, Danaifard, and many more are in my thoughts.
As for the more recent teams, I liked players like Daei, Mahdavikia, Karimi and Hashemian, amongst others.
Arvand,
What is your biggest disappointment associated to Iranian football?
Reza Pahlavi,
Under the circumstances, it would be unfair to place the blame on our athletes. I know they are trying to do their best they can despite all adversities.
Arvand,
Many believe that Iranian national team of 1998 reunited Iranians all over the world and brought them closer to one another. Do you acknowledge this declaration, and if you do, please talk about the encouraging impact of it.
Reza Pahlavi,
I do. It is amazing how sport is the greatest unifier of people, regardless of where they are on our planet. In the case of our soccer team in World Cup 1998, we had two common as well as two different reactions between Iranians abroad and at home: Iranians abroad celebrated the team, showing solidarity with the people, and not the political establishment. It was so obvious the way TV cameras carefully avoided showing Iranian fans in the stadium on the International live feed, in order not to upset the clerical regime!
As for the people inside Iran, what an opportunity to celebrate while at the same time sending a message to the same establishment: the most graphic image was that of Iranian girls and women taking of their chadors and veil while dancing on top of cars and in the streets, in complete defiance as well as in joy – I am sorry to say one of the few things they get to “genuinely” celebrate these days…
Arvand,
Could our country gain International respect through sports? If your answer is yes, please explain how we can achieve it?
Reza Pahlavi,
Absolutely. We have done it before. At the very least, Iranian athletes were celebrated in various Olympiads in the past, and even in present day. The rest of the answer would be what I explained in my answer to Q 5. World observers could only be more impressed if, as a country, we were able to address our health, education and sport issues beyond just farming athletes.
Arvand,
If there were a possibility of meeting Ali Daei face to face some day, what would you tell him?
Reza Pahlavi,
The same thing I would tell any prominent Iranian athlete: Remember that you do not only represent yourself, but your country. You are by definition a role model. Let the youth be inspired by your example. You should hold yourself at a much higher standard at anytime, on or off the field.
You could be a Joe Montana or a Michael Vick; the choice is yours…
Arvand,
Please talk about Iranian football, women, and all the restrictions surrounding the two in our beloved land! I like to know about the pros and cons of it.
Reza Pahlavi,
I think I already have shared many thoughts on this subject. But on this specific issue, especially about women, how could there be any pros? I hope to see the day, I hope in a much nearer future, where the Iranian Women National Soccer Team would be representing our country in world sports events. This goes for all other sports. Let’s face it, and at the risk of politicizing my answer once more, only a secular future could give our country the guaranties of equality and liberty for or women, whether in sports, arts, politics, and society as a whole. So long as they are treated as second-class citizens and have to endure an archaic theocracy, there will be neither hope nor choice; only forced “Hejab” and stoning…
Arvand,
I have a hypothetical query for you. You have indicated several times in the past that you are always ready to serve your country. Suppose, the conditions were right for you to go back to Iran tomorrow, and you had a job offer to lead Iranian football, would you accept to become the head of Iranian Football Federation or not? Please tell me why or why not?
Reza Pahlavi,
As you have indicated, I have always told my fellow compatriots that I stand ready to serve them in whatever capacity that they see fit. Having said that, the question in front of me today is not a hypothetical, but a real one: how to liberate Iran from the yoke of this archaic clerical dictatorship?
God willing, when we shall succeed, I will have to evaluate the exact situation at that time. Only then will I be able to ascertain in what way I could be most productive. If it happens to be what you have addressed in your question, so be it!
Arvand,
What is your non-political message to Iranian football fans?
Reza Pahlavi,
Your celebration of and support for our athletes is their only bastion of moral support and faith in themselves. Solidarity goes a very, very long way!
Arvand,
Mr. Pahlavi, I thank you so much for accepting my request for his interview and I also wish the best for Iran and Iranians all over the world. I was honored sir!
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Thanks badbakhta
by manesh on Mon Sep 17, 2007 08:31 PM PDTJust bring good energy, and have faith that in time it will have results. we need more positive, tolerant, forgiving people to make conversations with some others worthwhile.
Dear Manesh
by BADBAKHTA (not very much so) (not verified) on Mon Sep 17, 2007 08:25 PM PDTI know I didn't, you are correct, I did accuse everyone here, and you see, you were the only one that responded, you have good head on your shoulders. Lets hypothetically say I wanted to contribute something valuable to this discussion! do you think I would succeed? everyone is so busy bashing each other in a very ugly way. I don't care if you are Shahi or enghelabi, I'm sure both sides have a piece of mind they can use to have a much sincere discussion. No matter which side I take I will be bashed up conditionally by the other side and if I stay here and take a moderate stance, it would not get any attention; so please put a way forward so people from each side can talk with out prejudice… thanks
I think the Islamic Republic
by Nay (not verified) on Mon Sep 17, 2007 08:18 PM PDTI think the Islamic Republic spent millions of dollars in trying to prove that the Shah stole money in all kinds of courts in different countries, however, they were never able to prove their case despite the fact the Farah Diba did not have access to the kind of money the mullahs had to defend herself and her husband. Believe me, if Shah had stolen anything, the mullahs would have gotten it back. Obviously, they didn't have a case; only pathological hatred.
maybe Iranian.com does need a moderator
by manesh on Mon Sep 17, 2007 08:13 PM PDTJust as an Iranian needs a Shah. Look at "people" like Foad and Ghool, just to namea beauty from each sides Just pathetic.
Dear Reza Shah II: I hope you are not reading this, but if you are: Are you sure you want to have anything to do with us? I know we all love our country- our land, our history, etc., but what are we going to do with so many olaaghs occupying it?
P.S. @ badbakhta: you didn't advance the discussion much either coming in with ur crocodile tears and sanctimoniousely accusing EVERYone of being ignorant.
To GHOOL
by Anonymous- from cali (not verified) on Mon Sep 17, 2007 07:49 PM PDTYou can have all the education you there is, but that doesn’t mean you are intelligent or emotionally intelligent, your rational is of the mullahs it’s self, or to some extend even worse. Two wrongs never make it right! I respect the fact the you have a PhD in EE, that is very respectful, and it is expected of you to react more rationally to situations like this. If you are willing to bomb you home, I don’t understand what kind of person you would be? there will be civilian casualties, and there lives don’t belong to you to take it away fro them. A little bit of “FAHM va SHO’OOR” goes a long way.
Vaghean hamatoon az dam bad
by BADBAKHTA (not verified) on Mon Sep 17, 2007 07:37 PM PDTVaghean hamatoon az dam bad bakhtin! want to know why? instead of trying to solve the issues you add to it, how can someone take any of you seriously? You think because you read a book or two, you know what’s going on? You think because you lived outside of Iran you are allameye dahr? Well from tonight’s discussion I learned one thing? As long as you can’t sit and have productive discussion you will never be civilized! Yup I know I will get bashed for bashing! But I don’t take a side and wave a stick….
To: Anonymous from Cali, 8, 69, Foad et al.
by Ghool on Mon Sep 17, 2007 07:36 PM PDTIf the late Shah were to be criticized, it would be for not
unleashing his military might on the terrorist mullahs, communists, and the
subversives such as your kind.
I was there in 1979 and witnessed how the terrorist thugs
murdered patriotic people like General Khosrowdad et al.
On that day, I promised myself that one day I would bring
justice to those murderers. I earned a Ph.D. in EE. I work for the defense
industry designing the next generation tactical comm. systems (see FCS) made for invading
the Islamic Republic.
When the time comes, I will enlist in the US Army, and I will drop the
bomb on the mullahs and their collaborators myself. This is not a threat but just a promise!
In Iranian mythologies,
by Anonymous-from cali (not verified) on Mon Sep 17, 2007 07:18 PM PDTIn Iranian mythologies, Ghouls are creatures very similar to but larger than humans; usually they are less intelligent. Furthermore Ghool is also the name for a desert-dwelling shapeshifting demon that can assume the guise of an animal, especially a hyena. It lures unwary travellers into the desert wastes to slay and devour them. The creature also preys on young children, robs graves, and eats the dead.
Enough about you mr. ghool, no wonder you act the way you do! adam sho baba
Anonymous8... bacheh soosoole akhoond zadeh....
by khashmgin1 on Mon Sep 17, 2007 07:07 PM PDTanonymous8, ey bacheh akhoonde badbakht....
Yes, it's been 30 years anti-IRI people are nagging, including the monarchists. It took you Islamists 60 years of nagging to finally bring your "sorry asses" into power. So nagging is good. We will keep nagging.
You think people are busy "hers khordan"? You bet! Each time I see an innocent hanged, so that you bastard can continue loafing off in the West, it pisses me off.
But itt looks like you are the one busy "hers khordan" about what Reza is living on, more than all the anti-IRI members of all colors and groups combined. hers bokhor bacheh soosool.
The people rejected the Pahlavis because your kind fooled them. if I and the rest of us knew in those days, as I know today, who you were and what your bastard kind is, instead of "rejecting" the Pahlavis, I would have joined SAVAK, with pride, only to hunt your likes down.
You bastard traitor son of &^% talk about Reza's money belonging to Iran? Who cares about pocket change? What about the 80 billion dollars per year oil revenue which belongs to Iranians and that you and your masters are stealing and wasting so that they and you can "loaf off"? And so much of it is left for you junior to pig though.
Trust me the Iranian people are more concened about billions than millions. I agree with Jamshid, you should be put in labor camps to work once in your life and be benefical instead of being the usual parasites you have always been to the society.
Javid Shah, Javid Dean Martin, and Javid the old times in Iran.
by Ghool on Mon Sep 17, 2007 07:01 PM PDTFriends can go to the following link:
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//www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nv1TC-0chcw
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Foes can kiss my born-again-Shahi ass.
Good to see so many Iranians
by Ali Hakkak (not verified) on Mon Sep 17, 2007 06:51 PM PDTGood to see so many Iranians being open-minded enough to appreciate a good interview, even though not all of you are happy with the Pahlavi dynasty.
Just to reiterate Darius Kadivar's comment: VIVE LE ROI! (besooze koone harchi adame jangtalabe!)
Shah was a sell out like the
by Anonymous-from cali (not verified) on Mon Sep 17, 2007 06:49 PM PDTShah was a sell out like the akhoonds! and Mr. Pahlavi can talk all he wants, and he supporters can kiss A$$ all they want, but the truth is that, Mr. Pahlavi has very little knowledge of the Iranian people, specially after 30 years of exile! I respect him as an Iranian citizen but unfortunately not as a politician! And all of you can yell and kick and scream all you want, but in reality he would be the same as the akhoonds only with a crown, not an ammameh.
Javid Shah
by Ghool on Mon Sep 17, 2007 06:21 PM PDTfor ever.
@Anonymous8
by manesh on Mon Sep 17, 2007 05:52 PM PDTWould I interview Ayatollah Mesbah Yazdi just as Arvand interviewed Reza Pahlavi?
1- I didn't conduct this interview with HRH Reza Pahlavi so why do you wonder if I will do what someone else (Arvand) did?
2- Assuming your point was I wouldn't interview the Ayatollah because I am politically opposed to him, you would be right. I can't think of, or focus on, any innocuous common ground with the Ayatollah. The hurt that I feel from his actions are too fresh in my mind.
3- A more appropriate analogy would've been to ask if I'd interview the Ayatollah's son and ask his son about football. Yes, I would.
4- Is Reza Pahlavi guilty of any crime? What has this man done to you to deserve this much personal venom?
Whoever said Arvand's interview is unimportant is missing what it says about us as a community. Look at the hatred here spewing at the indisputibly innocent son of the shah, 27 years after his father passed away and while our nation is dire shape as a result of the overthrow of the Shah.
And the best part of Arvand's interview remains the tidbit that he conducted this interview with dignity and respect even though he is against monarchy.
Good for you Arvand.
Pay Grade for the IR Thugs
by Ghool on Mon Sep 17, 2007 05:15 PM PDTA barrel of oil reached $80 last week, highest ever! The thugs
of the Islamic Republic of Mullahs (IRM) are jumping up and down since
the increase in the price of oil means more money for them!
The IRM plunders the wealth of the Iranians based on as much as $80x 365x 4.5 M barrels per day = $131.4 B a year!
If IRM paid 1% of this to its thugs in Europe, Canada, and America, that would be equivalent to $ 1.3 B (Billion) a year.
Of course, IRM pays according to skills and years of experience of each thug:
1) Hoder types get paid: $100 K a year since they have to travel around the world to spread regime's propaganda.
2) Dariush Abadi type:$ 20K to spread Muhammad's message of violence.
3) Foad type: 10K to spread anti Pahlavi venom
4) Elmo69: $5 K to bark at innocnet people.
5) The brianless thugs: 1K to beat peopl.
6) The Friday prayer imbecile crowd : A bag of sugur andand a bag of rice to chant death to America.
Well, as Bush has told them we will bring them to justice or bring justice to them! The choice is ours.
Doostane aziz,
by Ali Baghi (not verified) on Mon Sep 17, 2007 04:53 PM PDTWonder why so many IRI agents in America reading Iranian.com which is banned in Iran, by the way ?
Jamshid the nazi
by Anonymous8 (not verified) on Mon Sep 17, 2007 04:39 PM PDTYes, I'm sure you would like to put me in a labor camp as soon as "the people of Iran", "wake up" and put your sorry ass back in charge. The problem is it's been 30 years of nagging by losers like yourself. One day you'll wake up and it would be 60 years and you're still sitting in your old-person rocking chair busy with "hers khordan"... if you're lucky!
It's obvious that real Iranians can overthrow the regime if they want to. They rejected you and the Pahlavis and your whole kind a long time ago. But when are you going to take a hint? You're done for! You will never have the power to throw anyone in a labor camp. Live (and die) with it!!!
That inharitance belongs to the people of Iran, not some fatass in Maryland.
What a moronic argument! Shah spent the money on all these social services and that's why there's so much of it is left for junior's pig-trough!!! Yea, that makes a lot of sense!
Re: Who cares?
by anonymous1 (not verified) on Mon Sep 17, 2007 04:34 PM PDTWho cares for what Reza Pahlavi thinks? I care you imbecile. And 70 million other Iranians inside Iran, including IRI lackeys like yourselves who are "plundering" money in Iran and are scared to death for the premature end of their "plunderings".
One piece of Reza Pahlavi's hair is more of a leader, more of a scholar, more of a human, more of a patriot, more of a politician, more of an intellectual than any of the "do zaari" mullahs ruling in Iran, or "nim sanaar" mullahs like your imbecile self.
Jamshid
Good Interview
by Kaveh Nouraee on Mon Sep 17, 2007 04:18 PM PDTMy compliments to Arvand on an interesting interview, especially since Arvand cast aside his political ideology to conduct the interview, and Reza took the high road when mentioning those who have spoken against him or his family.
Shamefully, however, it took less than a minute for some jerk to turn it into a "f**k the monarchy" crusade. (Yes that means you Foad) Foad? What the hell kind of name is Foad? Arab, perhaps?
Foad, this is for you, you illiterate, ignorant moron. You clearly prefer the IRI, so kindly pack your bags, and catch the first flight back to Iran and hide under the tunics of your vatanforoosh masters.
Javid Shah, Vive Le Roi, Long live Iran, and Marg bar everyone else who has a problem with that.
Quite the contrary this was very refreshing…
by Farshad R. (not verified) on Mon Sep 17, 2007 04:15 PM PDTThe creator of this article showed that you don’t have to be pro-monarchy to take pleasure in a cultured conversation with someone who cares about Iran. I think the very first line said it all. Have an open mind buddy!
Who cares what nim-Pahlavi thinks
by Batman (not verified) on Mon Sep 17, 2007 04:01 PM PDTWho cares what nim-Pahlavi thinks. He has spent most of his life away from Iran and with funds his family plundered from Iran.
Who gives a hoot what this son-of-a-dictator thinks about anything. He is nobody, not a leader, not a scholar, and isn't relevant.
RE: anonymuous8
by jamshid on Mon Sep 17, 2007 03:57 PM PDTanonymous8 asks me what is His Highness living on? He is living on his inheritance you imbecile. Where did his inheritance came from? From the hard labor of his father so an imbecile like you can go to school instead of the war front, can have "taghzieh raayegaan" instead of going hungry, can have a future instead of being an addict... And can unjustly live to destroy Iran and disgrace the Pahlavis with your stupidity.
Labor camps are awaiting you....
Foad is obviously is
by NN (not verified) on Mon Sep 17, 2007 03:25 PM PDTFoad is obviously is extremely ill-informed caveman, or just a propagandist doing his job mindlessly and dutifully. GDP was higher in 1977 than it is now. income per capita was higher than it is now. The unprecedenat oil revenues are going to fund militias in Lebanon, Palestine, Iraq, and Syria.
Lets compare the exchange rate of the Iranian currency with Malysia:
Live rates at 2007.09.17 22:12:37 UTC
1.00 USD = 9,315.07 IRR
Compared to Malysia, a non-oil producer
1.00 USD = 3.48768 MYR Malysian
Even morocco's money is worth more than Rial.
Check other developing countries exchange rate below:
//www.xe.com/ucc/
And Foad calls this competent. The mullahs' ignorance of economic laws are the most devestating part of their horrific mismangement and it robbing the future generations of Iranians from prosperity and perhaps even mere survival.
The thieving mullahs to control the inflation, they have outlawed high prices. Predictable outcome: Massive Shortage. Their
But as we know, the Islamic Republic follows Khomeini's pioneering economic model of "Economics is for donkeys".
How Come Hezbollahis are Always Anonymous...
by Darius Kadivar on Mon Sep 17, 2007 03:18 PM PDTPut up your real names for sake of debate if you dare too instead of bad mouthing others.
And Just to get on your nerves !
VIVE LE ROI !
Manesh, Arvand and Jamshid
by Anonymous8 (not verified) on Mon Sep 17, 2007 03:12 PM PDTSince it's just "beauty of sports", I assume you will be interviewing Ayatollah Mesbah Yazdi next?
And of course, wouldn't have any problems with it being posted, here right?
I thought so...
And Jamshid: What the FUCK do you think this highness is living on, right now? The fruits of his hard labor? Why can't you recognize a moft-khor when you see one? You sound thoroughly brainwashed.
Zende bad Mohammad Alireza.
Delectable interview.
by andre (not verified) on Mon Sep 17, 2007 02:48 PM PDTgood job arvand. i enjoyed every line.
VIVE LE ROI ;0)
by Darius Kadivar on Mon Sep 17, 2007 02:38 PM PDTI Highly Recommend you to Read Winds of Change:
//www.amazon.com/Winds-Change-Future-Democracy-Iran/dp/089526191X/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/002-2740841-3822435?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1190064927&sr=8-1
Also Read Reza Pahlavi's Article: NO WAR ON IRAN:
//www.rezapahlavi.org/articles/?english&id=110
Best,
DK
Patriot
by faryarm on Mon Sep 17, 2007 02:41 PM PDTI once had the pleasure to conduct a TV interview with him back in 1989, when he gathered Iranians of all political persuasion for 3 days of Q&A.
I found him then to be amicable and without pretense, he was eloquent, well informed on myriad of subjects,not to mention passionate about Iranians and their plight. It is not his choosing which tv network or political group gives him the platform; he righty uses every opprtunity to speak for Iran. I hope he can someday fulfil the duties for which he was raised and to make up for all the injustices of is father's era.Faryar
Re: Foad
by jamshid on Mon Sep 17, 2007 02:23 PM PDTYou refer to Reza Pahlavi as a moft-khor? How so? One could call him a moft-khor only if he had retired from politics and decided to just enjoy life, travel, etc... But he had dedicated his life, fulltime, if not overtime, to overthrow the clerical regime. And in doing so, he knows that the Ghods squads are eargerly waiting for an opportunity to terminate his life. That is not a moft-khor.
Moft-khor on the other hand is a typical mullah who, during Pahlavi and during IRI, made and makes his living from the money he collects from the goverment and from masjeds for... For doing nothing! Nothing at all!
You also refered to him as accomplice of neo-cons. How so? Just because someone stands against the mullahs and lives in the USA, he becomes a neo-con accomplice? Is your IQ that low? Besides, what was Khomeini? Wasn't he the accomplice to Carter/brzezinsky's Islamic green belt policy agaisnt the former USSR? At least with Khomeini there is ample evidence in Carter's support of him in the forms of countless petro propoganda dollars spent to brainwash the Iranians masses and subsequently to install Khomeini's regime followed by the Iran-Iraq war, one of the most profitable wars in the US history.
You also refer to him as incompetent (like father, like son). Well we all know that the Shah's regime was FAR more competent than the Mullah's. Take this excerpt from Ayatollah Montazeri:
"Some countries don't have oil and gas. Yet, they run their country and stand on their own. We have so much oil and gas but make useless expenditures work for others and don't think of our own people's problems and the price of basic commodities go higher and higher every day...."
In another interview with a French journalist he says "The price of oil was $8 a barrel in the previous regime, and it is now $65 a barrel, but the quality of people's life is worst now..."
Here we got a mullah admitting to the incompetence of the mullah's regime. I'd like to add the fact that we export our oil only to import it more expensively in form of gasoline. Now that's incompetence.
Reza Pahalvi is living off stolen treasures? Where are those treasures? Are you refering to those treasures that the Shah could have easily taken with him but he left them intact in Iran, such as the crown's jewels? The same jewels that the mullahs stole and sold half of them to Europeans, so THEY could live off of Iran's treasures?
And finally you claim that "Mullah are there because of the archaic imperial dictatorship..." Are you refereing to the Shah's regime? If yes, I totally agree with you. The mullahs are there because of the Shah not wanting to shed the dirty blood of the mullahs and the likes of you. He should have rounded up all of your likes and the mullahs, and executed you all.
Iran would have been a better place today... But that's a job that is now better left for the current generation...
Viva Pahlavi
by Ahura (not verified) on Mon Sep 17, 2007 02:08 PM PDTHe ist great and we will always support him..Javid SHAH