Pictory

Dear Captain

Thanks for your quick lesson in macroeconomics though I am not sure if your reading of my comment is quite related to the subject of comparative advantage. Basically what I am saying is that political independenace is not entirely isolated from the economic independence. Today Gaddafi is where he is and continues to rule Libya not because of the political and economic independence of his country but quite the opposite. The West needs him as much he needs the West.  I hope I made myself clear

Best,

FR

Ms. Rusta

You note[Independence is a myth. No flourishing state in the world has achieved their goals without the economic and political partnershp with other states.]

You might be mixing the political independence with a discipline in economics called [Comparative Advantage].

Comparative advantage is much like division of labor within a company but in national and global level. It is a situation where a country, individual, company, or region can produce a good at a lower opportunity cost than that of a competitor. No single country can produce everything they consume at a price that competes with other countries. Every country, as it is for companies, resources[capital, labor, land raw material] are limited. When a nation decides in producing a certain good/service they forgo the OPPORTUNITY of using those resources for other products and services. As a result, a decision is made to produce goods and services where [Comparative Advantage] can be utilized, minimizing [Opportunity Cost] of the resources.

Examples can be India and China. In the case of India concentration been in service sector and  textile taking advantage of their comparative advantage in producing these products/services at a lower opportunity cost. Where China has tapped into their cheap and sophisticated labor market and concentrated on manufacturing of consumer goods.

Both countries are independent, politically but in concentrated competition in global market.

Regards

-YT 

To those who want to hang on to the platitude

Independence is a myth. No flourishing state in the world has achieved their goals without the economic and political partnershp with other states. But there are limits and there are excesses. The the last four Qajar rulers were were openly seeking personal favors (and in the case of Ahamd Shah, annual pensions) from the Russian and British governments and their ministers were selected in their respective embassies. Reza Shah stopped all that. Yes his asent to the thrown was tacitly welcomed by the Brits as they needed to see a safe and secure Persia - something the incomptent Qajars were unable to deliver. But all these talks about an alliance with the Nazis and so on are mere Hollywood style fantasies. In 16 years he laid the foundation of a modern country fit for 20th century and beyond. His only ally was the love of his country. 

So please save your fantasies about masters and commanders for the sequel of the same movie.

FR

FYI/Media build up to World War II (bbc)

In the third of a series of articles marking the outbreak of World War II 70 years ago, the BBC Russian Service's Andrei Ostalski analyses media coverage of the events that led to conflict.

//news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8216847.stm

FYI/Stalin's bid for a new world order (bbc)

Published today in the BBC:

In the fourth of a series of articles marking the outbreak of World War II 70 years ago, the BBC Russian Service's Artyom Krechetnikov assesses Soviet leader Joseph Stalin's motivations behind the 1939 Soviet-Nazi pact.

//news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8218887.stm

What a humiliating

piece of history! How sad! The land of Kurosh, overridden so easily by a bunch of parasites! And Iranians were reduced to selling carpets to the invaders!

Oh, my God, how humiliating!

And people have the onions to bash the Shah! Look at WHAT he inherited, WHEN and HOW? 

The Iran that the Pahlavis inherited from the Qajars in 1925, thanks in no small measure to the Brits and the Russians, was a monumental JOKE! 

When Reza Shah got a little flighty in terms of confidence, he tried to get rid of British influence, and we all know how that turned out. When his son tried to get rid of the British and marginalize American influence, they got rid of him too.

The same can be said of Mossadegh.

All native modernizing leaders are a threat to the colonialists. They only love the reactionary clergy who keep the nation backward and ripe for picking by their masters in London or Washington.

However, it would seem they picked the wrong horse (or donkey) in 1979. As they say, when a mullah gets on top of a mule, you either have to kill the mule or the mullah to get him off.

Wow!

Great footage. Thanks.

Great meeting place...

between USSR and the British.....GHAZVIN :0)

Thanks Hajj Ebi!

I see! Just like that! British made him our Shah! Wow! Amazing!

Then, if someone supports the shah is supporting the british or a like?

maa cheghadr badbakht hasteem! That's why we cannot do it right. We are treating our own people the same way that the foreign powers controlled us. We were good students!

Now, US wants to come in with bigger guns! That's the only difference. Oh, we have some guns too! MAAdadreshoono! Down with them all!

what masters i nlondon

Aren't you people ashamed of repeating the same innuendos and lies? where is the evidence for this? Have you no shame? 

Mr. Fozolie

Some of the rhetoric of the narrator is just laughable

Mehrdad

"freedom denied in recent years of tyranny"

The narrator talks about "years of tyranny" before the abdication. The British definitely weren't happy with Reza Shah and his apparent alliance with Hitler.

Perhaps Reza Shah wanted to draw a different path for his rule in Iran. A path which was more independent from the path that his masters in London had in mind. He saw in Hitler an opportunity to free himself from the shackles of British rule which at the end led to his demise.

It's interesting that his son had a similar fate. He wanted to create a
more independent Iran which was against the interests of his masters in
Washington.

Great Footage Ebi Jaan

Great Find !

Thanks for Sharing and educating your readers.

Warm regards,

DK

Historic Clips

Many thanks Ebi. A part of an interesting collection of newsreels related to Iran in mid 20th century, collected by this YouTube subscriber:

//www.youtube.com/user/hijazna