On the sad anniversary of the passing of that great patriot, Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi, and after seeing the incessant gibberish against this Iranian visionary by those who want to justify their grave historical error by absurdity and prattle, I wish to ask this honorable crowd a simple question: how many akhoonds did the Shah kill in his three decades of reign over Iran? You know akhoonds, right? They are the same people who you blindly and purposelessly followed 32 years ago and brought to power. And by “you” I mean not just the average Hussein “sineh zan” from South Tehran, but all the an-tellectuals, all the Jebheh Melli, the Bazargaans, the Sanjabis, and the other cadre of PhD holding political scientists and talking heads who so affectionately, devotedly and ardently followed the “mazloom” mullahs who were sooooo oppressed by the evil Shah. Surely, the akhoonds knew best, and their “oppression” by the evil monarch gave them enough soundness and tenability to rather entitle them to governance, no?
So, please tell us–Shah bashers–how many mullahs died at the hands of Shah? Better yet, how many people did the Shah kill in three decades? Was the number more than the sum of one day of mass executions under the Godly government that resulted from your grand and effulgent devolution? And how does that number compare—when placed in context—with Iran’s political history for the past…well, 2532 years?
