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Dear Persian Splendour,
You are right on the money... Great analogies...
Iranians in general are too emotional & react too fast without analyzing the matters deeply... Our beloved country Iran was attacked & occupied since 1979! No body questions how did Mullahs managed to inform Iranians inside to revolt in such quick & efficient fashion? How did 20,000 Khaki "Toyota Land cruiser" land in Iran on the same day of revolution?
(we only had Blazers, Jeeps & range rovers before then on civilian level & military vehicles were all American or few Russian!) Where did the name "Committee" for Hezbollahis came from? When did they ordered their special Green military uniforms? When was the new Islamic money (devalued rials) with Khomeini's picture on it printed & where?
The small & big questions about this invasion & occupation are endless... We were all tricked or fell sleep... Or is it because we are all simply bunch of idiots...?
Shah was & still is the only leader in the middle east & Europe (or perhaps even the world) who could speak three languages fluently, was a sportsman and had varaity of talents & open mindness...
According to real surveys, 3000 political prisoners were IRAN before 1979 who Shah claimed they were terrorists who would destroy the region & the world! That's a huge prediction back in those days! Isn't it?
Shah (and true Iranian culture) were too much for an avarge citizen in the world , let alone a backwarded country & people like IRAN!

Ayatollah was the dictator! Not Reza Shah!

Khomeini stole my heritage from me. The things i was supposed to see but never saw, the life i was supposed to lead, but never did. I hate him for it. Had the Shah continued his reign and not have been ousted by the Islamic Revolution in the form of Ayatollah Khomeini, perhaps we wouldnt have to deal with people like Ahmadinejad. Perhaps the Shah's legacy would lie in the hands of Reza Pahlavi and perhaps alot of us would still live in Iran, in comfort and splendour. I was born in 1977 and we fled in 1979. I feel that the Shah's regime would have been a far more prosperous one rather than the catalogue of errors that has befallen our great land since 1979. So to say that Reza Shah was a dictator is an insult to so many people and an insult to country that perhaps had 10% of the problems it has to deal with now. At least our homes, heritage, economy and contribution to the world would be in tact. But what are we left with? A dead legacy. One of war, suffering, poverty, torture, inhumanity, intolerance and fear... This was not the work of Reza Shah, this was the work of the Ayatollah. He shat on our country... Promising equality and freedom to all and instead of giving, he took away and left us with a bleak and dark future, a country with little economic growth due to sanctions and now? THIS FUCKING IDIOT AHMADINEJAD. So ask yourself who the real dictator is??? I think given a choice ask our fellow Iranians whether they would choose Ahmadinejad or the Shah to rule Iran again, and i know which they would choose.

Am I suprpised? NO!

Iranian-Americans are largely anti-Shah. So this fool Foad is one of a million! When all the civilized intellectuals are held the Shah only as an autocrat, we must suffer such fools as Foad who have nothing better to say but just regurgitating the same shit his predecessors have already swallowed. If it makes you bloated Faod, have this one on me: pump up yourself with shit. So one should conclude that most iranian-americans are ful of shit.

Re: Persian Splendour...

Persian Splendour, you said that we had a King we did not deserve. I disagree with you.

I think we did deserve the Shah, but unfortunately the shah did not have a propoganda machine like one in the US, or in Islamic Iran. His regime was a punching bag for his opposition which spread baseless rumors and lies about him and his goverment.

According to Goebel, Hitler's propoganda man, if you repeat a lie long enough and often enough, then it will eventually become a fact in people's mind. Specially if the subject of the lie does not even lift a finger to expose the liers.

And this is exactly what happened in Iran in the 70s with the exception that the Islamists are far far more effective than Goebel in spreading lies. They added spice to their lies by making up fantastic stories about the Shah and by emphasized on use of "buzz word" lies such as "faased, torturer, nokar, dozd, etc.", none of which applied to the shah. The pick of this was the cinema Rex incident when the Islamists burnt more than 400 innocent people and claimed that "shahe khoon aashaam" personally ordered Savak to do it.

The sad thing is that the Shah did not have a propoganda machine to counter these lies. ABSOLUTELY NONE. That made it possible for the people's mind to become more receptive to these lies. The result is people like Foad who are still under the spell of those same people who destroyed Iran. It is sad, but true.

Why thank Bollinger?

Why thank Bollinger? What did he do that was so great? How is he the first person to speak out on the plight of the people of Iran, and the cruelties of the current regime?

Everyone seems to be constantly talking about the archaic charchter of the Islamic Republic, and on the horrible things they do to the people of Iran. I don't mean to say that the government is not doing terrible things to Iranians. All I mean to say is that Mr. Hollinger is not the first, and he is just jumping on the IRI bashing bandwagon, like all the rest of American politicians, and US news agencies, who would seemingly be more than glad to see sanctions or war against Iran. Everybody knows that Iranians are suffering. I would say that the plight of the people is sometimes exaggerated. Although, as someone who has lived outside of Iran for over 2/3 of his life, I will not press on such claims.

Nevertheless, the more I study our history, the more I realize that we have had a sucession of bad Rulers and governments for over 200 years. Dr. Mosaddegh, and Reza Shah might be the only exceptions to the rule. Mr. Bolinger had no right making such comments, and the US media, Intelligencia and government, only bash on whoever doesn't serve their financial interests, and turn a blind eye to the cruelties of their allies.

What's the point in trying to prove that the current Iranian regime is more cruel than the previous one? I personally think they are,but that is not the issue. The issue is that the American elite who would sell us Iranians all into slavery -- the American elite, who built an entire nation on Slavery and genocide; the same elite who supported the CIA overthrow of Dr. Mossadegh -- have no legitimacy when it comes to talking about human rights and true democracy. The American elite is a greater enemy of the people of Iran than any dictator we have had. I personally would not trust any of the slave Driving Anglo Saxons. We should not be fighting each other, we should be fighting these slave driving, mass murdering, hypocrite Occidents. Edward Said exposed the filthy white man mentality very well. As horrible as the Islamic Regime in Iran may be, they have one good message: "Na Gharbi, Na Sharghi,.." Maybe they should substitute the "Jomhooriye Eslami" in the last part with "Jameeye Irani".

Most horrible dictator? Don't make me laugh...

Foad, if you want to be taken seiously, even by your own likes, then please refrain from exageration.

You say that "The shah was one of the most horrible dictators..." ???? Dictator? Yes by all means. As long as your likes exist, it will be very difficult to establish a true democracy in Iran. Horrible dictator? Horrible ONLY toward the Islamists and the leftists whom we now know what terrible plans they had for Iran. I WISH HE WAS EVEN MORE HORRIBLE AND BRUTAL TOWARDS THE ISLAMISTS and akhoonds who are in power now. MUCH MUCH MORE HORRIBLE AND BRUTAL. Iran would have been a much much better place today.

I wish he really was a "torturing beast", as you called him. These Islamists "beasts" didn't and still don't deserve any better treatment.

PLEASE, LOOK AROUND YOU

I don't consider the Shah as having been a dictator; let alone comparing Him with Idi Amin, Pol Pot and Stalin. He might have been a dictator in today's definition but not during his own lifetime. During his own generation the Shah was a monarch excersising his legal powers; and compared to His own contemporaries he was anything but a dictator. During the Golden Age which Pahlavi rule characterized, Iran had a social freedom and political situation which most European nations could only wish for: Spain was ruled by Franco, Greece and Cyprus by the military junta or so called "Regime of the Colonels", Portugal by Salazar, Romania by Ceausescu, Yugoslavia by Tito and the rest of the Eastern European block at best was ruled by Communist regimes.... and the list seems endless if I want to inculde the South American continent, the Middle East, Central and East Asia and Africa.
In Thailand today, even EU nationals get long imprisonment terms for showing any sign of disrespect to their King; as we have already seen in the media. How come this royal behaviour is acceptable today in the 21st century, but the Shah was condemned in Iran even in the standards of half a century ago?
Alas, we had a King we never deserved!

Thank God for Bollinger. God

Thank God for Bollinger. God bless him. It brought to light the plight of Iranian people for the first time in major news media. For the first time I heard any of atrocities being reported in major MSM.

Shah was a coward for leaving his country at the hands of these medieval monsters. He knew exactly what was to become of Iran under their barberic rule but he didn't care.

And in terms of who has committed more atrocities, brutality, stoning, murders, torutre, oppression,repression, and suppression the IRI will come on top on every account. In terms of devestating Iran's economy and future prospect of being a viable nation, thievary, corruption, and wasteful mismanagment, the IRI will also beat the Shah's regime.

//www.emadbaghi.com/en/archives/000592.php

Lastly, in terms of opportunity cost of governing a nation toward prosperity, the costs are immeasurable and have to be paid in misery by the future generation of Iranians.

Those who would have liked to be given a chance to talk in Columabia:

//islamicrepublicholycrimes.blogspot.com/

Foad: You're a morally bankrupt human being for supporting such a vile regime and use a dead man as an execuse to cover up your beloved regime's utter ineptitude,corruption, brutality and the incalculable harm that the regime has afflicted upon Iran and will continue to do so.

You're either connecte economically or socially to the regime not to have noticed what they have done to Iran...or a brainwashed religious fanatic.

Interesting item but Shah was not calling for War !

Interesting historical item Foaad, except that you are very biaised in your comments: One of the Most Brutal and Cruel dictators of Post-WWII period ?

Oh Come on how irresponsible and biaised can one become. In NO WAY can you claim that in comparison to the regimes of POL POT, the Soviet Union which just had revealed in 1953, the year of the Coup in Iran that Stalin was a bloody dictator who had killed millions. I don't say this it was Krutchev who became head of the Communist PArty and the Soviet Union after Stalin's death. What about Idi Amin Dada or other Brutal dictatorships in Africa or South America.

The Shah's regime and its so called brutality ( SAVAK) was nothing in comparison. This is a very interesting item and says alot on the hypocrisy of politics but stop giving History Lesson's for which you do not have any competence.

Also from your document the Shah had not come to Columbia with the message of Intolerance as in the case of Ahmadinejad who called for the destruction of Israel and denies Gays even exist in Iran. 

Good find though !

DK 

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Khob chizi ke ayan ast cheh hajat be bayan ast.
tou ba doshmanet chegone raftar mikoni? entezar dari bara aghaye raeeis jomhoor farshe sorkh bendazan? In barnameh hataki aghaye bolinger az ghabl rikhteh shodeh bood ke agha ro joloye anzar seke ye poolesh konan. nokaretam chi entezari dari.