Musings of a former chicken

Facts are stubborn things.

Brazil specially under Workers' Party (PT) leadership has had great achievements in reducing poverty.

Single-Party Rastakhiz monarchy was not exactly the greatest democracy.

If these shanty towns were so irrelevant, how was it that, in less than five years after 2500 celebrations, they became the center of opposition to monarchy which led to its PERMANENT overthrowing.

You claim that IR just bought the lands for shanty towns and got rid of them. Not true.

How aboout Islam Shahr uprising around Tehran?

How about the uprising of slums in Mash'had in 1992?

All studies of slums and shanty towns under IR point out to their growth, and development of secondary and tertiray slums around large cities.

No only fact are stubborn things, so are slums and shanty towns, not to mention that they could also lead to your overthow.

Just in case you forgot, Brazil has been led by a Socialist, workers' led political party, PT, Workers' Party, Partido dos Trabalhadores

Shanty town obsession!

So based on your fine analysis  Mr zendanian,  Brazil should not hoast world cup 2014 and olympics because it has famous shanty towns (favelas) in their major cities!!! what you fail to underestand is major events bring public relation, tourism, money and investments which in a long  helps the society and specialy the poor people.

my guess is you have your own economic model that works on hot air.I love to hear how that works? 

آفتاب آمد دلیل آفتاب

بجای پاسخگویی به سئوالات، دهان دریدگی و قره قره شعارهای کلیشه ای در باره رزیم سابق که سی و چهار سال است که به تاریخ پیوسته تنها هنر چپولان ترجمه است.

نازنینان؛ این واکنش شما اثبات ادعا مطرح شدۀ این نوشته است.

پا بزنید! 

Shanty towns and slums proved to be weak spot & ultimate

End of monarchy in Iran. In retrorespect wouldn't it have made more sense to spend the monies on people who needed the monies rather than some fat cat "foreign dignitaries."

IR has faced its own revolts of slums and shanty towns: from Islam Shahr in Tehran to half the city of Mash'had getting burned in 1992, to...

In our beloved country somethings just never change, from dictators to all their colorful apologists and defenders.

Looking forward to three paragraph rehabilitation of SAVAK and Rastakhiz  in this space!!!

As i recall

the 2500 year celeberation was and still is the only event in more than 2000 years of history honoring Iran and it's history.(Let's not even talk about it's public relation benefit. countries and companies spend zillion these days tofor public relation)

Now I underestand  that some of you would have been much happier  instead to have events like tazieh, rozeh, sinah, ghameh zani, ramaly,  bozorgdasht lenin, stalin and of course money for those events would have been no object!!! After all nothing is better than enriching the shiekh o omati psychee that has enslaved a nation more than 1400+ years now....

And for the fellow who keeps talking about shanty town. (apparently we are the only country that had shanty town!) you will be happy to know one of the first things this glorious regime did  was demolishing the shanty town and selling the land under and pocketing the money! now how stupid the shah was that he did not think of doing that!

Zendanian! What we are witnessing here are….

The failed remnants of the despicable and despotic tyranny that was Pahlavi regime with its culprits.

Some of these people are blatant paid Israeli/MOSSAD agent(s), worshiping their GOD like idle, degenerates like "BIBI" and cultishly follow his orders, others are paid Pahlavi PIMPS/hustlers that are, have been benefitting from the embezzled Pahlavi loot.

This shameless crowd of Shahollahi/Hezbollah would do anything, go anywhere, commit to any lies, just to cleanse the 37 years of M R Pahlavi’s treason, theft and murder and to rewrite that miserable segment of our history, not realizing that everything is and has been memorialized on papers, tapes, films and by HISTORIANS.

This feeble minded psychopathic mass has even justification for mass murders committed by SAVAK, which I am sure some of these losers are or once were proud members of.

They also do not either have the moral turpitude, knowledge or intellect not to use IDIOTIC parables in comparison; like saying because the IslamoFascist regime has plundered millions, than the Criminal Pahlavi Enterprise was justified in stealing billions.

These IDIOTIC arguments are as affective as Reza Pahlavi’s recent israeli visit, cow towing to the apartheid government of Israel, a pariah nation.

Every penny spent on 2500 year Shahhanshai celebration was wort!

worth it! Thanks to the great Shah of Iran for having this festive event. And more thanks to SAVAK and its personnel for unfolding many ill-intended attempts by the terrorist leftist and MEK to sabotage it!

Three massive Heep Heep Hoorays to this great event!

Shlomo salutes all those who worked hard to bring this event to reality!

To all naysayers on this site

to freddie's blog.  the point is not to exonerate the Shah's regime.  Although by all acounts his records has been expunged and he has been exonorated.  But the point is not to say that what was wrong in that era ws good.  What he is saying is that every so called vice, from his 2500 anniversary celebrtaions to his SAVAK (which turns out to be angels in comparison to this regimes) and so on, was the reason for the revolution and what these guys have done is to take the same vices to unimaginable extremes.  Extremes not even Hitler could have imagined. 

Before long we'll also have Rastakhiz and SAVAK resurrected here

What our 'dear' writer, with a not so strong memory, can't recall are all those slums and shanty towns growing around Tehran and all other major cities in Iran, while shah was claiming to herald the path to so called great civilization, (and invited teh whole world to watch) all those slume dwellers were asking when could they get electricity and running water. Also recall that in less than six years after those gargantuan "celebration" we had a full scale insurrection aganisnt monrachy in Iran.

Recall that first urban protests against shah started from these shanty towns around tehran.

Then again remembering historical facts are not the monarchist crowd and apologists of SAVAK, Rastakhiz and "2500 yeras celebrations," strongest point. Might as well just keep on justifiying why Iranian people needed a single-party system by Rastakhiz and getting tortured by SAVAK. Good luck!!!

Before long we'll also probably have Rastakhiz and SAVAK resurrected in here. Just can't wait. NOT.

از قلم افتادگان

جناب فرد دیدم از لیست "واکنش کنندگان" یک فقره کوچک از قلم افتاده بود گفتم جهت اطلاع آن جناب اضافه کنم: مصدق اللهیون همیش حاضر در صحنه،

Faramarz

در پی نوشت همین بلاگ؛  با عرض سپاس ذکر شده بود که ایده مقایسه دو رویداد زمان شاه و وحوش از یکی از کامنت های شما گرفته شده بود، از قرار در کپی و الصاق به صفحه پریده و متوجه آن هم نشدم.

Non-Aligned and Much-Maligned Meeting!

At least under the late Shah, Tehran was not locked down and you could drive around and see the street lights.

hah hah

تازه این دفعه اولشون هم نیست که میلیارد میلیارد ولخرجی میکنند تا رای چندتا پاپتی گرسنه افریقایی را در شورای امنیت و مجمع عمومی بخرند.

it all reeks with hypocricy