Prince Ali Reza Pahlavi Suicide: Tragic End to Iran's Dynasty
Daily Beast / Stephen Kinzer
05-Jan-2011 (4 comments)

Yet although some might say that fate has justly punished the Pahlavi family for its great crimes, the reality is that Prince Ali Reza was no more of a criminal than any of my other neighbors. If sons are guilty for their fathers' transgressions, he was surely covered with guilt, but if each individual is responsible for his own actions and nothing else, he was innocent. He never ordered an execution, dispatched anyone to a torture chamber, or prostrated himself before foreign power. He could honestly hold his head high. Yet the weight of his family history was evidently too heavy for him to bear.
One can only imagine the demons that tormented this exiled prince while he was cloistered in his darkened South End townhouse before taking his own life at the age of 44. He died in the manner of a soldier who cannot bear dishonor and disgrace, of a single shot to the head.

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Anonymous8

Stephen Kinzer on the death of a prince.

by Anonymous8 on Wed Jan 05, 2011 02:38 AM PST

great piece by great reporter.


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mahmoudg

Propoganda for his own end

by mahmoudg on Wed Jan 05, 2011 09:54 AM PST

The Shah ordered what????? and i see, the Islamic Rapist Regime has been a rose!!, The Nazi's in Germany (A western phenomena) were angels.  Stalin, yet another Christian power were humane! give me a break.  Those in power will do whatever it takes to stay in power, including our own American way of life, in which i am in support of.  So, the shah did not do half, heck, 1/1000th attrocities commited in the past 31 years or all of the 1400 years put together.  Had he done enough purging, our country and the world would not be in the mess (yes the mess caused by Islamic Rapists) today.  So rest in peace, the prince alongside your great father.  Rest assured we will reclaim our country and bring about the annihilation of Islam.  This dirty, worhtless Arab cult.


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seannewyork

provide evidence

by seannewyork on Wed Jan 05, 2011 05:58 AM PST

all this non sense about how many people the shah killed is propganda.  the truth is he didnt kill enough and cared for even the fanantic islamists by not killing them.

the pahlavis did what they could for iran and kinzer writes nonsense.


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fussygorilla

Truth told by Kinzer

by fussygorilla on Wed Jan 05, 2011 05:00 AM PST

Nothing in this essay can be challenged because it is all true.

Let this tragic even become a lesson to his older brother who dreams of the return of the old ways which will never come.


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