Persian Realm

ENTER THE DRAGON: Shah Greets China’s Party Chairman Hua Kuo Feng (1978)

Chinese Communist Party Chairman Hua Kuo Feng arrives in Iran, where he is met by the Shah of Iran, attends a ceremony at Shahyad Tower and later, a formal banquet. (circa,1978)>>>

Shahram Homayoun & Hechmat Raissi debate Reza Shah’s Rule & Iran’s Intelligentsia’s Failure

Journalist Shahram Homayoun debates openmindedly with former hardline leftist turned Secular Jomhurykhah, Hechmat Raissi, on the pros and cons of Reza Shah’s rule and Iran’s intelligentsia’s failure>>>

'BOOBOOLI, BOOBOOLI': Bahram Moshiri Mocks & insults Shah’s Executed Generals

Response to Bahram Moshiri’s slanderous and disrespectful remarks on the Military Top Brass of the Shah’s Army executed upon the Revolution’s Victory>>>

RAIDERS OF TIMBUKTU: Islamists Damage Historic Royal Muslim Shrines

Rebels in Mali have taken the historic city of Timbuktu, a place that has become shorthand in English for anywhere far away. How did this metaphor come about? >>>

Shah and Shahbanou Farah visit Jordan (1975)

Shah and Empress Farah Pahlavi arrive in Amman for a three day visit upon invitation of King Hussein>>>

A PRINCE’s PRICE: Prince Charles's public funding increases by 11.8%

It's become a fixture of the royal calendar - a chance to peek at the prince's spreadsheets. For a second year, the amount of taxpayers' money spent on the heir to the throne has gone up>>>

MAGGIE & SHAH: Margaret Thatcher visits Shah of Iran (1978)

Prior to her triumphant election as Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher as conservative party candidate, was to tour the Middle East and particularly Iran and Egypt>>>

Shah of Iran visits Oman’s Sultan Qaboos and Dhufar (1977)

The Shah of Iran arrives to Muscat and is greeted by Sultan Qaboos bin Said al Said of Oman>>>

VOA OFOGH: Abbas Milani on Ali Shariati’s Intellectual Legacy

Abbas Milani say’s that Ali Shariati was a mediocre thinker who nevertheless played a major role in the advent of the Islamic Revolution. >>>

JOMHURYATKHAH VS JOMHURYKHAH: UK & US Bill of Rights - Similarities & differences

Crown Prince Reza has often mentioned that he is a Jomhuryatkhah (as opposed to Jomhurykhah). Author Michael Barone takes a look at the fundamental British document which was to inspire the drafting of the American Constitution.

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Shah of Iran’s State Visit to Morocco’s King Hassan II (1966)

Reception given by Iranian Embassy in Rabat for King Hassan and visiting Shah>>>

Shah and Empress Farah visit Prague (1977)

Returning from a state visit to Moscow during an East European Tour, the Shah and Empress Farah arrive at Prague airport >>>

Khosro Fravahar Responds to Hassan Shariatmadari’s Comments on Secularism & Monarchy

Constitutionalist from Austria, Khosro Fravahar’s rebuttal of Hassan Shariatmadari’s comments on Secularism and the Monarchy made on VOA’s talk show Ofogh >>>

BUG REPORT TO ADMIN: Apologies for Embedded Videos But Please Fix Editing Tools

Just wanted to report this recurrent bug which prompts me to embedd instead. The reason being that the Editor preview/submit automatically generates Junk text when Word content is copied and Pasted into it. >>>

SCHINDLER's LIST : In Tribute to the Abandoned Children of Syria

Who would have thought that 67 years after the Nuremburg Trials individuals accused of génocide would still get away with it be it in Rwanda, Ex Yougoslavia and today in Syria >>>