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SPink Triple Cross If you say so ...;0)

You truly think I will give or Justify my qualifications to an IRI Agent so that he can track me down ? ...

//www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-mvaz8aGN0

Good Try SPink Jaan ;0)

LOL

I would have thought you more subtle in your inquiry ...

//www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DGDt1keSS0&feature=related

Better Luck Next Time !

But How come You Hide under an Anonymous Identity ? No Name ? No Way of Tracking your name at UC ? ...

//www.youtube.com/watch?v=XV0sJOk_h1E

Ashamed of Your accomplishments ?  Or Too afraid of Ending Your Treacherous Career Half Way Through Your Irreversible path to oblivion into the Dustbins of history ?

//www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsO1kATso_s

Sargord

Change your dirty, pashmaloo Basiji, pasdari avatar. They are the most disgusting, hated people in Iran right now.

98% votes for the Islamic regime

came from misguided, confused people who did not know their best.

My aunt was one of the people who vote for Islamic regime. She used to say, "Shah naftara mikhord, vali agha hala har rooz ye booshkeh naft dare khoonamoon miareh!"

Khomeini ye boshkeh naft ke nayavoord ke heechi, ye pesarasham to jange Iran o Iraq koshteh shod.

Sargord, I guess you're technically correct in claiming

that neither you nor your parents "cut and run" from Iran.  How can you "cut and run" from a place that you're NOT from anyway? :-))

Just admit it Sargord, you're just IRI supporters' version of John Walker Lindh and Adam Gadhan.  You're a disillusioned American who is looking for a purpose for your existence, and you believe that you have found it in the IRI.  Piece of advice: quit these shenanigans while you're ahead.  You don't want to suffer the fate of John walker Lindh.    

Darius, Ha! Just what I

Darius,

Ha! Just what I figured, you've no scholastic qualifications, citing history as you do through silly YouTube videos. 

Farah, your family must have cut and run before the referendum. My suggestion is to study up on your people's history. Majd's book makes for a satisfactory primer.

Thanks Parham for the feedbacks

I also happen to know an  Airforce officer who later joined Bakhtiar and wrote an interesting book on his captivity in Iran.

He was denounced by a fellow colleague who collaborated with the Regime and was therefore arrested and tortured 3 times (at the time of terrible hanging Judge Lejevardi ) because he was suspected to have been involved in the coup. But they found no evidence against him and he was finally set free after months of physical torture to which he resisted and never denounced anyone. He went on to be arrested on and off for several years on the same grounds while fighting the Iraqi Forces and even becoming a War Veteran. Far from being decorated for his services on the War Front they kept on humiliating him on various pretexes and because he feared for his own family's security he could not attempt an escape so easily.

But since he was so much loved and respected by his men and such a good pilot the regime decided not to kill him but use him in the War with Iraq. 

But the man who denounced him was his best friend and co pilot who was not even tortured.

After his third Arrest He was so fed up with the regime's indecisivenes about him that he decided the escape with his family through Kurdistan and finally Joined Bakhtiar.

Some years later the same man who had denounced him also fled to Paris and contacted him asking for help ...

Needless to say he never spoke to the hypocrite again ...

But I wonder if that treacherous friend was not one of the people who denounced the entire operation ? ...

I will ask him when I meet him again !

He himself was never involved in the coup directly but knew many of those who participated and that was why they arrested and tortured him.

I met him and he is a good friend and every year comes to Bakhtiar's memorial.

Here is his book written with a French Journalist which I highly recommend and which I hope will be translated in both English and Persian one day:

Nocturne iranien : Mémoires d'exil du colonel Bidgoli Rad, de l'armée de l'air impériale iranienne de Claudine Monin-Krijan

There are very interesting insights on the moral of the Iranian Military officers during the Revolution and after. He was the military officer in charge of the Homafars ( who were not regular military but rather technicians hired by the Military) and explains why the Homafars were the first to betray and leave the Army  barracks during Bakhtiar's Premiership and join the Revolutionaries.  Since he was particularly popular and respected amongst his men, the Homafars who worked under his orders never betrayed at the time which explains why he was arrested for the first time shortly after the Revolution's victory.

These testimonies are an essential part of our human history and need to be preserved for generations to come.

and do you want to know what this man who used to be an ACE Pilot of the Imperial Airforce did for a living when he left Iran and doing so to this day ( although retired now) ? ...

A Taxi Driver ! ...

But His son has become an Engineer and his daughter a Lawyer So the Story has a happy ending ...

it seems there are a lot

it seems there are a lot rumors, innuendos, and fasle information not just about this operation but other historical events.  it would be biblically proper that a jezebel was the cause of downfall of the nojeh/shahrokhi operation. 

with regard to dk's sidenotes on shariatmadari and ghotbzadeh, montazeri's memoires seem to have a better explanation to how their fates were sealed: khamenei and ahmad khomeini eliminating the true contenders for vf who were the most senior clergies shariatmadari and montazeri (marja taghlids) who were not too sure if velayat faghih is a good idea.  according to monazeri, ghotbzadeh was accused of hiding explosives in a well to be used later to kill khomeini.  ahmad khomeini convinced ghotbzadeh if he confessed on tv to the crime and implicated shariatmadari, he would be set free.  he did, he died, shariatmadari was isolated and no one ever searched any well for any explosives.

at any rate, no one can deny the man in the above video and his comrades were true patriots and men of principle (whether one is pro shah or not).

Re: I believe they were denounced...

According to Bani Sadr, who unfortunately lies a lot, they found out through two channels. One was the wife of one of the coup leaders, and the other was someone from the inside who denounced the operation either directly to him or through one of his contacts.

At the time, they were saying it was the son of one of the leaders and then it turned into being the wife of one, and then they talked about a mysterious woman who had found out and denounced them.

This last version is the one that has stood the most -- now as to who the woman was, it is still a mystery -- or at least I don't know about it. I have never heard of a version with a Toodeyi in it.

More, "Nojeh" was only the name of the military base they were going to overtake, the other name for it being "Shahrokhi".

And by the way, that whole Wikipedia article is wrong, someone should change it... It has most likely been written by someone in tune with the current establishment.

I believe they were denounced ...

I don't quite remember the exact circumstances ... because it happened shorty after our arrival ( my family and I) to France and we kind of missed the whole story in the press.

But I think Sadegh Gobtzadeh (A Rival to Banisadre) was involved(not sure if it was for this coup or another one that was being planned a few years later) as well as it is said with Ayatollah Shariatmadari's silent endorsement which led to Gobtzadeh's fall from grace and execution and Shariatmadari's isolation.

The Americans may have been aware of this because Gobtzadeh was often in negotiations with Brezinski and the US administration over the Hostages and developed a network of contacts with the outside world.

So the question as who betrayed the group remains a mystery to this day ...

Ghorbanifar the businessman who was involved in the Iran Contra Affair may have played a part but nothing is certain. There were many conflicting groups with different objectives and building a trustworthy network which would have been 100 % reliable at the time was not guaranteed.

The Men took a Big but Calculated risk and clearly knew what they were doing since they were highly trained Top Brass Officers of the Imperial Army ...

What is certain is that the Course of History could have been altered 180 degrees had the Operation succeeded !

If Anyone has reliable feedbacks on this or Book References on the Failed Coup they are welcome ...

True patriots

They were indeed true heroes of Iranzamin. Names that shall not be forgotten. Had they succeeded Thirty years of nightmare would have been over with a blink of an eye. Allegedly their plan was leaked by one of the tudeh member  to one the foreign embassies which in turn provided that info to IRR.

Also the real name for for this operation was ghiam 18 tir, not nojeh as people keep calling it. Nojeh was a hezbolahi officer that shed bloodof inocent people in Iranian kurdestan. Do not dishonor these great men by keep assoicating them with piece of garbage like nojeh.

Bakhtiar was misinformed

I guess that is the correct way of putting it.

FR

98%!!

Sounds like a Saddamite claim my dear Suck Puppet? Where did you say you were trained?

FR

Can someone explain why the coupe failed?

They were way a head of their time and they saw what is coming. Khomeini conned the masses but these heroes saw it all the way and tried to fix it. Too bad for them and Iran.

Ignorance; That's what it is

Darius...

God bless you.  They are indeed heroes and will remain heroes forever.  Their patriotic mission will be a paramount in Iranian history.  Those who oppose your view; they are simply speaking out of their pure ignorance. There should be no room for them in secular Iranian society.  Keep up the good work. We need you here.

SP...

If you are a so-called historian "trained" @ UC, why dont you go by your real name on Iranian.com?  You clearly seem more like an ANtellectual than a psuedo-intellectual. 

I guess you truly seem to be believing the lies you have spun about yourself and the Mullahs.  You need to seek professional help...

Heroes are immortal

“What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world remains and is immortal.”           Albert Bigelow Paine

Quite True Parham Jaan

Probably written by our Household Historian here ...

LOL

The University of Life ...

Your Credentials on this Front ?

Darius, I'm a trained

Darius, I'm a trained historian from the University of California.

Your credentials? 

SPink Robespierre Indeed Unlike Your Pedigree

They Were, Are and Will Be Heroes in the History of Iranzamine !

And I very much doubt that you are qualified to give me a History Lesson or Go on Your Ridiculous Republican High Horse On this Matter given Your own Lousy Record of Treachery which seems to dig deep in your bloodline !

VIRTUE IN TERROR: Maximilien Robespierre and the Reign of Terror (BBC)

And I found even more...

I had only read the first part of the article!
What is this about Bezezinski meeting regularly with all parties involved?? And Saddam being interested in participating + financing the project?

Who wrote this article, the IR?

Except...

... there are two major mistakes in there:

- Bakhtiar didn't know about the plan until very late -- he wasn't involved in the planning.
- He wasn't "operating" from Baghdad as the Wikipedia article says anyway, but from Paris.

There are also name(s) missing in the list of the officers.

So 98% of Iran's voting

So 98% of Iran's voting electorate choose Islamic Republic, and then this clique of a handful of military men try to overturn the wishes of tens of millions of Iranians (with CIA instigating, of course).

And DK calls this heroic.

DK, you can not get around the fact that you are and your kind (including this list of traitors) were rejected by this 98% of Iranians. 

HEROES !

THANK YOU GORMEH SABZI FOR SHARING !

Rooheh Hameghyeshood Shad va JAVID Baad ...

//www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKtii8mH3F0

Best,

DK

PS: Their Story inspired a Best Selling Novel back in the 1980's called Project Norouz by Rebecca Swift 

Recommended Reading:

VILLA DUPONT:How royalists seized an Iranian gunboat off Spain By Cyrus KADIVAR

Recommended Blogs:

SPIRIT OF RESISTANCE: Iranian Intelligenstia Remembers Shapour Bakhtiar

FOR KING AND COUNTRY: Farzan Deljou's interview with General Bahram Aryana (1981)

FOR KING AND COUNTRY: Vice-Admiral Kamal Habibollahi Press Conference after Tabarzin Takeover (1981)

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