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Saman Jaan Gah Gah Yek Kam Tobeh Kohny Bad neest ...;0)

Saman Jaan I LOVE All the Talented stuff You do with Hossein with Parazite on VOA but it would be good if would put some intellectual honesty in some of your comments from time to time.

From what I gather seeing you on VOA you belong to the Post Revolution generation and either were very young at the time or were not yet born so you cannot possibly have any real first hand souvenier of Iran under the Pahlavis.

Shahbanou Farah WAS NOT MARIE ANTOINETTE of France to say to her Ministers to go and fetch cakes and chocolates for her people if they were complaining about shortages ...

Unlike a Frivolous MArie Antoinette FARAH CARED for her people.

Just a few examples here:  

ROYALTY AND THE PEOPLE: Farah Greeted by "Bandari" People of Persian Gulf (1970's)

ROYALTY AND THE PEOPLE:Farah chatting with a local lady in Gilan Province (1970's)

ROYALTY AND THE PEOPLE: Shah visits Nursery in Tabriz (1960's)

ROYALTY AND THE PEOPLE: Farah Pays Respect to Baloutch Sunni Minority (1970's)

ROYALTY AND THE PEOPLE: Shah meets Kurdish Representatives (1948)

ROYALTY AND THE PEOPLE: Farah Comforts Tabas Earthquake Victimes (1978)

ROYALTY AND THE PEOPLE: Farah visits compatriots inflicted with leprosy (1970's)

ROYALTY AND THE PEOPLE: Farah Helps Clean Village Sewage System (1970's)

ROYALTY AND THE PEOPLE: Farah visits village wives and children (1970's) 

ROYALTY AND THE PEOPLE: Farah Greeted affectionately by girls in Luristan Province (1975)

ROYALTY AND THE PEOPLE: Farah and Quashgai Kids (1976)

ROYALTY AND THE PEOPLE: Shah and Soraya Share meal with worksman's family (1956)

Something that her Own Son seems to have inherited from both his parents and particularly her mother:

PRINCE OF PERSIA: Crown Prince Reza and Iranian Asylum Seekers, London (2005) 

Also  Farah, or Mrs. Pahlavi as you like to call her by downplaying her title as Shahbanou Remains Queen unless she abdicates or is Beheaded. It's not because a president in the US leaves office that he or she ( if ever the US ends up with a Female president in the future) that he/she loses the title of Mr. or Mrs President. Even if he or she were impeached like was Nixon they are still refered to as President or at worst Ex PResident Nixon. Even President Clinton who got his Blow Job in the White House is still refered to as Mr. President and I am sure So did Marylin Monroe when she slept with President Kennedy without the First Lady Jackie's knowledge.  

As for Poverty, It is not just a question of giving people what they want. You also have to fight it through education. I can vividly remember in the neighbourhood of my school in Shiraz, there was a poor area where the children were playing in the streets and were poorly dressed and probably would not attend school. Well each and every crumbling house had a latest Mercedese Benz parked outside the flat which belonged to the head of the family but the fellow wouldn't buy his wife or children new clothes. With the rural exodus of the 1960's and the White Revolution that had taken the lands of the rich landlords and given them to the peasants and ended serfdom in Iran to a large extent, many of these families were coming to town with new aspirations for a better life. To change one's lifestyles is not as easy and takes at least a generation or two to achieve.

Someone like Tennis Champion Mansour Bahrami came from such an extremely poor background and describes it extensively in his book Le Court des Miracles  and I would highly recommend you to read it if it's ever published in English.

Mansour Bahrami and Shahbanou Farah here:

//iranian.com/main/blog/darius-kadivar/mansour-bahrami-and-farah-pahlavi

And he is extremly thankful to the Pahlavis for what they tried to do for Iranians like him despite the Regime's shortcomings.

A Little Objectivity  from time to time on your part would be nice than repeating the same convenient "Third World Anti Imperialistic Rhetoric" that has become a leitmotive for most leftwing or liberal intellectuals stuck in the 1970's  who want to arrogantly claim to some objectivity in terms of Poverty Vs Capitalism. Tobeh Kohn Pesaram ... Tobeh Kohn ...

LOL

Are you sure this was Iran? The tribes were definitely arabs.

The first tape looked like iran. The rest, i don't think. Their ashayer looked arabs with women in chador having painting on her face.

I saw historic place that is in jordan mountains. who said it was iran? May be joonoobi ha have a better undertanding of these places? Any joonoobi here? 

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 are not Ghshghaii tribes . the 2nd vid is most probably Bedoin tribes of either Wadi Rum mountains in  Jordan or Syria and dont resemble ghashghaiis . In late part you can clearly see the extension of either Roman-Syrian structures adjusent to rose red rocks of Petra in Jordan.Cheers!!!

Path of Kiaan Resurrection of True Iran Hoisting Drafshe Kaviaan //iranianidentity.blogspot.com //www.youtube.com/user/samsamsia

Whats up with the music? Yeak.

Mostly some Arab country.

part 2 at 2:10

ya syrian flag //notmytribe.com/tag/middle-east

Piss Poor then ... Poor Piss now

3rd clip is "Baazaar Shaam" in Damascus.

Baareekallah to these Germans ... at least they had the courage to visit poor places in Iran. The places many including Mrs. Pahlavi believed we didn't have.

masoudA

I think I saw a buick, nonetheless so what! Valli khodemonim che par o pach-e zir chador ... :-)

Has to be from before 1965

There are no Peykan in the Streets !!    Did a pretty good job taking clips from some of the poorest of the poors in Iran, and the contrast of the minijoop was quiet a touch.  I wonder if anyone would ride a horse like that in the west - even today.   

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Part#3 does not look like  Iran 'cause the guys had scarf on the head with a hoop...they look like Arabs.....I saw Petra in the video at 4:28...I think it is Jordan, not Iran....I am positive, it is not Iran...