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ham1328 Then you're equally Doubly 'Pathetically' Accountable

Given your rich life long experience, Yet Hiding behind your Bold Anonymous Stance, while Pointing a Finger at those younger than you in the Public Eye trying to correct your Poor Choice ...

SATIRE: The Burqa Republic of Our IRANICAN Dreams ;0)

Any way No hard feelings ... Despite our differences if any ... I respect your choice, understand and may share some of your frustrations but in the end of the day complaining is easy and it has led us nowhere to date.

Everything in it's own time ... Our struggle against the IRI is not merely about holding elections or a democratic discourse as if we were living in some wonderful western democracy around election time ... The people running our country for the past 3 decades are SHARKS not innocent harmless candidates to a given election !  

So let's not discourage those who regardless of their shortcomings are trying to do something constructive.

Lastly I think Only those enjoying one can speak of multiple Choices ...

For I'm afraid those back home don't have that "luxury" ...

As for those who try to have one they often see their dreams shattered against the Rocks ...

My Humble Opinion,

DK

Paris, FRANCE

"A Country that Loses it's Poetic Vision is a Country that faces death" -Saul Bellow.

Darush,

FYI,

I'm 77 years old and lived everything you only heard about. No, I was not born under olagh Khomeini's regime.....

BEH MARG GRAFTANEMOON TA BEH TAB RAZI SHEEM!

There is a third chice besides death or high fever! Let everyone has a vote.

Hamid 

Tehran e Azad jaan, and others...

I'm all for a democratic and unified front to fight Iranians common enomy, the IRI. My problem is, when democracy comes out of the mouth of Pahlavis, their dark past record speaks for itself. Post IRI, which is close and coming, I will support a free and transparent ellection, conducted, perhaps by UN or any International body, including everyone, from Reza Pahlavi to every group or political party, as long as they support the rights of everyone and respect an approved democratic constitution. I hope I made myself clear.

ham1328 No need to embarrass yourself by Using CAPITAL Letters

I'm a Monarchist Period not a Celebrity Seeking "FB Pahlavist" Fashion Victim ...

And have been So From DAY ONE !

I didn't wait to join the Pahlavist bandwagon (if any ?) 3 Decades later to express my Pro Monarchist views, because I believe in them, and did so even before contributing to this website some 12 years ago ...

So no need to be grandstanding when lecturing me on an era you clearly never lived under.

Dunno how old you are or from which planet you are speaking from ( I'm sure Armstrong could tell ... Sorry I can't ... ) but clearly you like your likeminds are talking on a period you either were too young to remember or are one of those Post Revolution generation Schizos who was brainwashed into believing any crap fed to them by your own intellectually bankrupt ex revolutionary parents added to the IRI propaganda machine.

Then I guess probably following the Post Election Crackdown, you suddenly realized that your Joon Jooy Republic was not such a "Behesht" your former "Presidenteh Mahboub" Khatami claimed it to be but rather the unreformable shit hole it always was from Day On.

Hence given that you didn't live under the Pahlavi rule you bought Stephen Kinzer's "All the Shah's Men" and then came up with the Humpty Dumpty Conclusion that Iran was a Perfect Jeffersonian democracy it never was some 60 years ago ...

Cyrus Amir-Mokri: How Truly Democratic Was the 1906 Constitution In The First Place?

So you problably ended up living in the very "Corrupt" West ( The YOU ESS OV A Perhaps ?) you loath so much and relish in criticizing whilst pretending to be one of those "openminded" Liberal "citizens of the World" lecturing about how you understand the benefits of "democratic discourse", probably after following one or two courses on Gene Sharp :

Khosro Fravahar: How Green Movement Jumped on Bandwagon of Gene Sharp’s Theory

Or On Edward Said's "orientalism" at Columbia University by some equally Schizo Pro Palestinian, Left Winger Iranian expat like DOKOTOR Hamid Dabashi, and next thing you know you are already a full member of the National Iranian American Council run by a Swedish National ...

LOST IN TRANSLATION: NIAC Welcomes Hamid Dabashi on Advisory Board

All this just to show that you can be equally "Pro American" and "Anti West" at the same time just to "Fit In" that "Fashion Victim" Green Mold due to a lack of character and imagination combined  ...

Now If any of the above assessments are wrong please let me know and I will offer you my humble apologies ...

If not Well Thanks but no thanks !

I know where I come from and regardless of politics to whom I owe my gratitude  ...

The Shah of Iran and President Kennedy (respective speeches upon Arrival for State visit 1962 )

Best,

DK

An Unapologetic Monarchist Born on US Soil

Paris, FRANCE

Brouhaha!!!

The pageentry and hoopla surrounding RP's every appearance (both from the pahalvi worshippers and IRI suporters) is mind boggling! What is with all the commotion? Here is a mediocere social/political figure, albeit making some valid points, bringing up arguments that have been made by countless others in the past 34 years about known facts with regards to the criminal nature of IRI!

Yet, due to his celebrity status, he receives more attention (or is it obsession?), not only from Radio Israel, but from both extremes, than anyone else, even those more qualified and experts on the issue of HR  --  e.g. Abdolkarim Lahiji and Shirin Ebadi, just to name a couple!

When are we going to learn to react based on issues rather than emotional investment?!

HAM1328

I don't know about others but I like Reza Pahlavi's democratic views ,  but I never liked/friended  him or any other pahlavi on face book.I regularly go to Iran every year , and I dont want to give IRR a reason to throw me in jail or kill me. Does that make sence?  

Doesn't matter who comes to power( Reza, hassan , hossien , bardia, korosh , taghi , naghi ....maryam , fatemeh , farah , ava.... etc there is always going to be some people that will hate and talk sh&t about that person no matter who that person is. So my suggestion is instead of worrying about how many supporters this person or that person has to unite against the common enemy( unless you are  the enemy.....

Khamenei has millions of supporters, mousavi has millions of supportes, reza pahlavi has millions of supporters, x, y, z also has millions of supporters, thats why when there is a free election you will truely see who or what ideology has the most support, the rest of it is just BS!

Kolah Ghermezi has more Facebook followers than

... his Royal Majesty

So does Samad Agha. 

Darush Jaan,

You must be one of the 3000 or so people who liked Reza Pahlavi on his facebook page out of a nation of 75 million. Okay, I know not everyone in Iran, has facebook, but millions of Iranians are froced to leave Iran and have facebook. Even millions in Iran have the site, but where are they?? If an AKHOOND like Karoobi can get tens of thousands of more likes than SHAHZDEH REZA, then you tell me why he is not popular in Iran and among exiles?!!!

SHAH ONLY LOOKS GOOD AGAINST A SEVENTH CENTURY IDEOLOGY! Isn't that a shame? National Front had democracy in Iran 60 years ago, Shah, CIA, UK and Mossad killed it. Oh, western education, Iranians can STILL come to USA or other western countries for educatoin, it's just harder to get a visa.

Hamid, 

Radio Israel

رادیو اسرائیل رادیو دشمن است

Right on Darius.

Very well put. Regardless of what had happened, you can not change the facts. 

Thank you. 

You yourself benefited from that "western education" did you not

You yourself benefited from that "western education" did you not ?

Much of what is being published on Iranian.com is in English Not Persian ...

Who gave you folks that "Western Exposure" and "World View" of things if not the Pahlavi Educational system ?

The ability to study abroad in some of the best universities in Europe or the US and on the government payroll with the guarantee of coming back and having a job only to spit in the Hand that Fed you and Shout Marg Bar Shah ...

THE YEAR AFTER: German Report on the first year after the revolution 1980

If anyone is responsible for the sad state of affairs in Iran it's the Iranians themselves and the namak generation and ever complaining Schizophrenic generation who advocated Revolution and No One Else.

COMPLAINING JOMHURYKHAH: What Have the Pahlavis EVER Done For Us ? ;0)

If Anyone is PATHETIC here that person will clearly recognize himself ...

Here is a Clue ... It's Not RP 2  

Best,

DK

An Unapologetic Monarchist

Paris, FRANCE 

PATHETIC....

How pathetic and how dare can you even go on public?! He is the son of a western educated king, who claimed to have brought us the the gates of great civilization. His father, the king of kings, ran away and left his nation and all of his men to a filthy cleric with mid-evil ideology!!! 

REZA PAHALAVI HAS NOTHING TO SAY TO IRANIANS, EXCEPT ACCEPTING RESPONSIBILITY FOR HIS PUPPET FATHER'S RULE THAT BROUGHT US TO THIS POINT.

Hamid, 

Aria-i-gerami

bezar avval sarnevesht-i-Bashar Assad bereseh, ba'd sohbat-i-sarnevesht-i-digarano mikonim.

هدف : استقرار مشروطه سلطنت

درود بر رضا پهلوی پا دشا ه قانونی‌ ایران زمین

در احتزاز با د پرچم ۳ رنگ شیر و خورشید ما

پاینده سرزمین آریائی ما ایران

Bashar Assad

Aghayuni ke be RP hamleh mikonand aya hich miporsand ke 6 mah ya 1 sal dige che sarneveshti baraye Bashar Assad hast? Va bad in soal pish miad ke ba az soghut Assad che payamad hayee by IRI peyda khahad shod?

che ehsasi

be aghayun dast dad vaghti raees jomhur jadid mesr be Bashar Assad hamleh kard? Aya aghayun delgir shodand chon entezar nadashtand?

Reza Pahlavi's private life is up for discussion

whoever put their names to run an office plus those who running a political office must have their private lives disclosed to their constituencies.

one cant be a drug dealer at night and a member of any parliament in the morning!! given he did not use parliament's time to sell drug therefore that would be his private matter!!

one cant deny serious psychological problems in his/her family which leads to catastrophic deaths and in the morning after he wants to be a king!!

My first comment was ill-worded!! there is no such thing as ill-facts

I wear an Omega watch

bazagsht Aghaye Mehdi az Chah

Chand nafar az aghayuni ke be RP hamleh mikonand motaghed be bazgasht Mehdi hastand?

anti-Israel sentiments

Dustani ke in harf haro ziad mizanad, aya dar doran kudaki dar khanevadeh, mahleh ya mohithayee ke bozorg shodanand, shenidand ke johudha najes va kasif hastand?

Aya hich kodam az aghayun dar doran kudaki in harf ha ro shenide budand?

Agha-Zadeh Khamenie

Aya aghayun be pesar Khamenie be onvan yek moalem/ostad/rahbar ayandeh negah mikonand?

Question?

Aya sehet dared ke masoul edareh pazouhesh-haye moaser tarikhi be tazegi gofteh ke bishtarin khatar baraye IRI az taraf saltanat talaban hast?

Aya dustan midanand in harf gofteh shodeh, va agar sehet dareh angizeh goftan in harf chi bude?

why attack RP so much by Aghayoun and one Khanum

if he is considered so irrelevant?

Low 'Discussion?'

Why is that any discussion with 'flaws' in one's character is interpretd as 'private matter' or getting involved with one's family issues? If had really been money disputes between Reza & his deceased brother, as some news indicated right after the suicide, shouldn't Reza go forward with his explanations to clear himself up? And what if Farahnaz's life is at stake now, would not somebody do something to save her life?

یک خر دو زدم یک شیرجه تو استخر

 گیلانی جان
یکبار گفتم باز هم تکرار میکنم، تا قیامت کامنت و بلاگ بدی ودرآنها از کلمات رکیک استفاده کنی من جواب تو را نخواهم داد!!
یعنی جواب به نوع نخواهم داد!! هیچ کارکتری! نه حتی جورج بوش!! میتواند این چنین خنده در دل من ایجاد کند.

I wear an Omega watch

امان از این فحش‌های خواهر مادر دادن گردن کلفت های پایین شهر..

اونهم گردن کلفت‌های اینترنتی و پایین شهر ونکوور!

دوستان عزیز

اگر ما در ایران دموکراسی میخواهیم، بایستی بتوانیم نشان بدهیم که حد اقل در اینترنت میتوانیم ادب خود را حفظ کنیم. اگر شما با افکار ایشان موافق نیستی، از همان انتقاد کن، نه از برادر و خواهرش

How low can a "discussion" on IC get? Very very low.

Lower than any norm or imagination.

Family issues are family issues, politcs are politics.

"Pahalvi"s have had enough political liabilities and limitaions to discuss. No need to drag to innocent depressed spolied rich kids in the mud.

Respect for dead seemed to be a big part of Iranian political culture. until it's time to score points and settle disputes, then even the dead are not immue.

Decency is still a virtue.

Of the Dead Issues!

The suicidal deaths of 2 very young Pahlavis could be dead issues to many but the reasons for them and/or what led for those two to terminate their own precious lives are still in limbo! And that is so vital to learn as the rumors about the well being of last Reza's sister, Farahnaz, is being spread around these days!  

به وجد آمدن مور و ملخهای جمهوری اسلامی

بعد از هر سخن رضا پهلوی، خیلی بهتر از خود سخنرانیه، به والله !

Of speaking ill of the dead...

One has to be careful with losing the substance over its format.........we all know that, politically speaking, the only good Pahlavi is a dead Pahlavi.

*No desire or intention for physical harm is either expressed or implied.