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RP has 2 eyes???

But even the dead like "Deen Martin" who loves all the "deads" so much is not able to read RP's mind! Could he have a messed up mind like his dead dad or a suicidal mind like dead his sister or his dead brother or is he Schizo like his aunt Ashraf? Let's call the dead "Frank Sinatra" or half-dead "Jerry Lewis" on that!

Babak K. YOU ARE WAY OFF MAN

Man, what's with you? You sound like a radical hypocrite. Our King was being attacked from all sides by the Jewish British Islamic Terrorists. Instead of supporting him, you are attacking him and now his son?

Shame on you man. Your comments are irrelevant, show ignorance. Our king was a secular democrat. His son, Reza Pahlavi is a secular democrate, a patriot and lover of Iran.

Get your head out of the sand... 

 Our King was right. He was under attack by a bunch of mercenaries (beevatan), led by Mr. Khomeini and other mercenaries.

After 32 years, you lack insight and understanding.

Go get educated. 

Javid Shah. Javid Iran. 

Happy Norooz to all Iranians.

What a Lovely blog this one is!

I am not even going to challenge such classic statements uttered here, such as the "prince" is the "best opposition leader we got", or "both Lenin and stalin were joooos"!, I mean how could anyone even debate such well proven, well researched historical facts!!!!

 Mash Ghassem already beat me on that topic of Shah's SAVAK and ahmadinezhad's Hojjatieh common roots, ideology and hatred for anything secular, let alone democratic.

 All I want to say here is that one single hair of any of the 80 plus brave prisoners murdered only three days ago, back in Iran, by the Fascist islamist regime's prison guards, during their failed uprising is worth more than the clown "prince", all the money stolen by his daddy, and his US funded interviewer duo.

"Personal business must yield to collective interest."

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In a land of blinds a 1-eyed man is a king! RP has 2 eyes &

the rest of the opposition leaders have "0" and I mean collectively!

In fact, the rest of the opposition leaders Masoud Rajabi and her Husband Maryam + Kahroubi + Mousavi + Khatami + Khamenei have less appeal, less possess, less charisma, less common sense, and less potential than Reza Pahlavi's dog or was it his cat!?

The bottom line is that he is the best you've got and the only hope Iran has. Be happy.

Javid Shah!

ahosseini

I vote for you : )

20 vs. 50

I think Demo's comment worth of thinking

"در مورد شکنجه و خونریزی و قتل مخالفان "

Also, what did it suppose to mean that I was 20 at that time and I am 50 now?  He asked us to see his white hairs as well.  Was it because he needed our sympathy or he thought all people in their 20s are stupid and need "maturity"!  Please imagine in a job interview for an acting career.  

"Sorry sir, 

I made a terrible mistake that I studied medicine when I was 20, but I just decided yesterday that I wanted to become an actor."

Again, the interview was his smartest interview, and If it was a fashion show, I would have certainly voted for him.  He dresses so thoughtfully.

Why Sure deev Jaan Your Request are My Orders ;0))

javid shah

Fussy Gorilla: Russian revolution was a war on Christian Tzar

The Tsar was a christian, who forbid the jews to participate in his government. The jews took their revenge and spread blood libel about him to overthrow the monarchy, then murdered everyone in his family and started a holocaust on russian christians and non-jewish russians. The Jewish Bolsheviks led by Lenin and Stalin (both jews) began an ethnic cleansing program -in Russia where they massacred and starved all dissidents and all Chrisitan russian peasants - they killed 10 million russian peasants and took their lands. So, the Tsar's problem: the jews. These jews came back and took vengenous at all cost. 

On the other hand our King, was benevolent to the Jews and all religious grous but it was not enough for the greedy Jewish and British Islamic bastards, since they are just like the British insatiable vampires. 

I lost my faith in you Kambiz Hosseini!

I am not pro Shah or anything like that. But by putting this man on the spot and by quoting the Jomhouri Eslami as your source, you showed that EITHER you are absolutely an idiot and not knowledgebale about what happened in the last 30 years, OR you did this on purpose to make him look as if his father stole money. Either way, I have lost my faith in you.

You may be funny at times. I give you that. In fact, you were doing pretty well until you brought a few people like this man (Pahlavi) and Hassan daie and unnecessarily made them look bad. You have no idea how much better our country would have been if the Jomhorri Eslami, which you quote a lot had not come to power.

You lost a golden  opportunity Kambiz! Perhaps you can make amends in a fture episode by being impartial.

JAVID SHAH

Javid Shah....

All hat and no cattle

Mr. Kadivar you're a perfect example of the middle-aged/elder people without desire to act demographics I was referring too, lots of punditry but no action, all hat but no cattle, how about showing me a video of people yelling in the streets of Tehran for Reza Phalavi instead of your usual comic relief ;)

Oh But Deev Please be My Guest ;0))

"No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country." - George S. Patton
   
George C. Scott’s introductory speech in Patton 

nice guy but meh

Charismatic leaders move people in a way they're willing to risk their lives and Reza isn't one, today I don't see anyone willing to die for Reza as his demographics are mostly middle-aged/elder people nostalgic about past glories without much desire to act.

در باره مرد زشت سال

تو سمبل آزاری تو سمبل شکنجه
 کل وجود نحست برای ما پر رنجه
تو مرد سال زشتی, تو مرد سال پستی
   بروگورتو گم کن‌ای پر روی‌ بزمجه

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ای مردک زشت حقه پرداز
برقع به صورتت بیانداز

تا صورت زشت تو نبینم
هر گز مکن این برقع خود باز

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I know it might sound silly, but Can I please be a candidate for constitutional monarchy too?. I never had the opportunity to inherit $65000,000.Could you please kindly vote for me. Reza Pahlavi had his chance.

My father was in the same rank as Reza shah, before he became a king. That might qualify me for the post. 

Fussygorilla 1. Nokolai

Fussygorilla

1. Nokolai the second was a lot gentler dictator than Stalin was, however the reason for Communists to come to power in Russia was the Zsar Nicoli's dictorship and the abandenment of the 1905 Russian  constitution.  Khomeini was a ture AHREEMAN and criminal and it was the Pahalvi estebdad that brought him to power althlough Shah was a lot gentler than criminal and murderer Khomeini.

2.  It was shah who called his opponents Beevatan and he himself became a beevatan.  When shah was losing power he said that" I heard the voice of your revlution" he should have said that a lot sooner not when he was in deep S....

3.  Mr Pahlavi is errelevant to the events in Iran, and  he has become a distraction for our democratic movement and a clown for Slatanat-talab circles.

4.  He says these things because he is not in power, as you can see no dictator in Middle East is willing to let go of the power they hold.  They most be kicked out of these countries as you can witness in the Middle East.  As Reza Shah and his son were kicked out and as Mobarak and  Ben Ali experienced the same faith, or they are not going do better than Anvar Sadat or Saddam Hussein.

5.  We do not want to talk about the past dictators, becuse we have a better and important thing to do and that is to bring democracy to Iran, but our Slatant-talab friends want to create the distraction and they never give up.

B.K

<شرف> سنجی

فقط و فقط در اختیار ایرانیان است و بس. فقط این شرف سنجی نه میتواند در مورد ثروتهای غارت شده یک ملت سنجشی داشته باشد و نه در مورد شکنجه و خونریزی و قتل مخالفان و نه اینکه زبان داشته باشد که بگوید بچه گرگ همانا که گرگ است و نه گوسفند بیگناه

رضا پهلوی یک ایرانی با شرف است

من به عنوان کسی که در زمان انقلاب 57 فقط 17 سال داشتم و مثل ببقیه مردم شعار مرگ بر شاه را نیز سر دادم باید اقرار کنم که آقای رضا پهلوی یکی از دمکرات ترین رهبران گروهی از مخالفان این رژیم می باشد. گروهی در این سایت چنان در کلیشه های 57 گیر افتاده اند که بدون توجه به دیدگاه این شخص ایرادهای الکی می گیرند. اگر رضا پهلوی تاکید میکند که برای آزادی ایران تلاش میکند و هرآنچه اکثریت مردم ایران خواستند به آن احترام میگذارد دیگه اینهمه بحث های الکی برای چیست. من شخصا جمهوریخواه هستم ولی اگر در ایران مردم با آگاهی به رژیم پادشاهی پارلمانی رای دادند به رای مردم احترام گذاشته و آنرا قبول خواهم کرد. در مورد ثروت پدر ایشان که فقط 62 میلیون از ایران خارج کرد باید بگم حلالش باشد چون امروزه در ایران آخوتد زاده ها بیشتر از این مقدار پول در بانکهای خارجی دارند. رژیم جمهوری اسهالی نمی تواند اتحاد ما را از ما بگیرد

Too little, too late!!

Sorry! Next.

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مش قاسم جان،سلام دوست شفیق .

امیدواریم که روزی فرصت شود و ما عکس‌های قدیمی‌ شمیرانات را در همین سایت وزین به تماشای عموم بگذاریم.

عکس از پارک نیاوران و آمفی تیاترش خواسته بودی . . . اینجا میتوانی‌ پیدا کنی‌ :

//iranian.com/Memar/2004/December/Niavaran/1.html

//www.qwiki.com/q/#!/Niavaran_Park

سال خوبی‌ برایت آرزو می‌کنیم،سلامتی از همه چیز مهمتر است،از خدا میخواهیم که سال دیگر در چنین روزی در مملکت آزاد خودمان،جمهوری آزاد ایران (نظر شخصی‌ ما این است،جمهوری تنها برازنده ایران زمین است) باشیم.

ارادتمند شما...

شراب قرمز.

Different world from Cold War Era, different Iran from 20th

century politics and culture.

Just in case no one has noticed, US has established two, not one, but two Islamic Republics right next to Iran , in Iraq and Afghanistan.

All corporate, mainstream media and "think-tanks" have their money on the Greens. During 20th century Monarchy in Iran was used as a tool  by Brits and US against Soviets. Times have changed.

In a post IR Iran, Pahlavi has as much a chance for a restoration as the Ghajar had in 1940's, NONE.

Say hello to Contemporary Iranian Social Movements, the true engines of change, since 32 years ago, and even before ...

On Democracy ... different cultures different outlooks ...

The IRI and the Revolution that brought it to being are filled with so much inner contradictions that it has lost all credibility in the face of history. It will definitively not go down in history as the French Revolution it hoped to emulate:

SOURCES OF FURY:Nader Naderpour on origins of IRI's "Death Slogans" towards US and Israel

particularly in it's violence:

HISTORY OF VIOLENCE: IRI's Reign of Terror Begins (BBC Report 1979)

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

Yet I think We Iranians are actually much closer to the British ( which we tend to hate so much) or even the Spanish both of whom restored their monarchy after a disastrous experience with Republicanism:

HISTORY FORUM: How Truly Democratic is The British Monarchy ?

Viva España, Viva El Rey !!

Which does not mean that we do not see the benefits of democracy but we know that our identity is too interconnected culturally and psychologically with the Royal Institution and concept of Kingship which has strongly defined our identity and how we collectively see ourselves as a nation.

A Restoration of the 1906 Constitution amended and updated so as to respond to the democratic aspirations which inspired our forefathers can put the country back on the right track again after this disastrous interruption of 30 years which only aimed at cheating the people from DAY ONE:

Khomeini: No Monarchy

pictory: Bakhtiar Denounces Bazargan's Provisionary Government in exile (1979)

Mehdi Bazargan and the controversial legacy of Iran's Islamic intellectual movement

Constitutionalism is all about implementing democratic and even Republican concept of statesmanship and self governance by the people but within a Royal Framework. Once people understand this much of the misconceptions linked to the idea of Restoring the Monarchy in Iran will be lifted because the goal is not to restore a dictatorship but a Parliamentary Democracy.

I humbly but Firmly believe that Constitutionalism is the Key to Iran's ills:

HISTORY FORUM: Nader Naderpour on Iran's Constitutional Revolution and European Rennaissance (1996)

CONSTITUTIONALIST FORUM: Daryoush Homayoun Political and Journalistic life Honored in Germany

We have nothing less that the Europeans be it the Swedish or Dutch or British or Spanish to understand the benefits of such a compromise and system of government.

Sweden by the way Tops all other nations in the World in the 2010 democracy Index:

Economist Intelligence Unit's Democracy Index 2010 (PHOTOS)

Yet unlike the Pahlavis who are native Iranian neither their dynasty is genuinely Swedish since their ancestor Bernadotte who founded the dynasty was a French Import:

Charles XIV John of Sweden ( originally a French General by the name of Jean Bernadotte who was born in Pau France)

Persian Carpet Gift to Sweden's Crown Princess Victoria and Husband

But in addition Ironically he was one of Napoleon's generals and ex revolutionaries who is said to have tatooed on his chest : "Death to the King" which the current Swedish historians claim he actually had "Death to the Tyrant" tatooed in reference to Robespierre's Reign of Terror.

House of Bernadotte - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

As for Spain which in my opinion is closer as a country and culture to us given that they too were invaded by the Arabs ( Moors ) and are a hot blooded nation like us :

HISTORY FORUM: Franco's Ghost- Spain's Painful Road Towards National Reconciliation

With an ambivalent relationship with their own Royal Heritage:

THE SUN ALSO RISES: Shah of Iran and Queen Soraya visit Franco's Spain (1957)

Well for your information again unlike Our Crown Prince, Juan Carlos was not even born in his country but in ROME, Italy.

So you see in the end of the day it's all about flexibility. If we ever hope to achieve democracy we need to learn to compromise and co exist with our strengths and contradictions for the superior interests of the nation at large.

More than anything democracy exists and survives due to collective wisdom of it's people and a mutual understanding that a Constitution is first and foremost a contract between the People and the governing body:

HISTORY OF IDEAS: Constitutional Government In Locke's Second Treatise (Yale University)

This remains true whether you live in a Republic :

EMPIRE OF THE MIND: The Greeks - Crucible of Civilization narrated by Liam Neeson (PBS-1999)

RESTORATION: Greek Constitutional Monarchy Toppled by Military Coup (April 21st, 1967)

RESTORATION: King Simeon II of Bulgaria, The Republican Prince

or a Monarchy:

Morocco's King Mohammed VI pledges constitutional reform

pictory: Crown Prince of Morroco (Today King Mohammad VI) at Iranian Embassy (1977)

ROYAL FORUM: Explaining the Concept of a Constitutional Monarchy to a Staunch Republican

But without a Flexible mind as Nader Naderpour clearly explained in the above link (and which I encourage all to watch again by repeating it below) we will continue to be an uncivilized and stubborn lot with no hope of seeing the emergence of a Persian Rennaissance which could get us out of the Middle Ages:

HISTORY FORUM: Nader Naderpour on Iran's Constitutional Revolution and European Rennaissance (1996)

As such the best and shortest root to reach a satisfactory solution to our current situation is to respond COLLECTIVELY and regardless of our ideological, philisophical or political preferences to Reza's Call:

REZA's CALL

RESPONDING TO REZA's CALL: An Iranian Solidarnosc in the Making ... by DK

Anything short of that will only be a waste of time and allowing the IRI to gain time to organize it's survival.

So it is never late to Join the WINDS OF CHANGE in order to Save Our Country:

Farrokhzad sings Padeshah inTribute to Reza Shah Dovom

If He Understood it:

Farrokhzad Harfe Tarikhi.wmv

And paid the ultimate price for it.

SARBAZ: Fereidoun Farrokhzad helps child soldiers of Iran Iraq War

Then we have No Excuse not to ! Specifically if we are lucky to live in the Diaspora.
My Humble Opinion, DK

Related Blogs:

ROYAL CURTSY: Crown Prince Reza Godfather to Belgium's Prince Prince Laurent's Daughter (2004)

RESTORATION: Belgium King Baudouin takes Oath Amidst Republican Animosity (31st July ,1950)

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Shahzadeh Reza Pahlavi

The interviewer is extremely impertinent by not addressing him by his full name 'Shahzadeh'. Whether you are a supporter of the monarch or not that is his official titl. Iran and the monarch are inextricably intertwined. Iran needs a stable constitututional monarchy which Shahzadeh talked about as it is aunifying figure. 

It is a fact: Monarchies are more stronger and healthier governments than their republic counterparts. The most successful and progressive governments in Western Europe and the Persian Gulf Arab states are monarchies. Compare that to the sea of corrupt and dysfunctional republics in Europe and the former tin pot ex-Soviet Republics. They are total failure.

The Islamic Republic is an example of a republic experiment gone bad. Iran's prestiege, national pride and the sheer respect it generated fom the word 'Persian' were all thanks to monarchies.

Shahzadeh Reza Pahlavi should not only not be ashamed about advocating a monarchy but he should be more forceful and show the irrefutable fact that Republic will not work in Iran. He should also make the case for Iran to be liberated by force of action. Shahzade's biggest flaw is that he is still peddling this civil disobedience rubbish to appease the most dumbest amongst our people who still believe in dialogue with the IR monsters. 

The time has come for the restoration of a monarchy and for Iranians to reclaim their glorious past and be proud to be Iranian.

Take your republics and shove it where the sun does not shine!  

Monarchy is the only solution. Javid Shah.

Death to the Islamic Republic.  

fussygorilla

Hate? The only one spewing hate is you as evident by your aggression and name-calling. Since you spare no criticism even if its achievements towers over that of the IR, is there anything the current IR has done which you think is worth criticising? 

Nothing. I thought so. Not even from the point of view of a woman living in Iran. As I said before you have the privilege of not haiving to wear a hijab in the street and millions of women in Iran wish that they can have the very freedom you take for granted.

Put it this way: Over thirty years ago you were living in Iran. You are now living in the USA or Canada, I presume? That says a lot about your standard of living you enjoyed under the former regime and the regime in Iran now.

پس روی ملی ما

*حالا حروم  و حلالش به جای خود، که البته حرام است و دزدی و بدتر...

No comment ... ;0)

ROYAL RHINOPLASTY: Stephen Fry On The Imperfections of the Monarchy and Why It Should Be Preserved

Actually Well Yes One last Comment:

I hope by the time the British Topple their Monarchy we will Restore Ours ...

RESTORATION: Shapour Bakhtiar advocates Restoring the Monarchy

Hee Hee  

Babak

How dare you write such sensible piece in this site where most are ignorant of the history of Iran and this rotten dynasty.  This site is mostly reserved for haters and shallow "democracy" subscribers without knowing the meaning of the word.  It truly takes gutts to say what you say and wait for the labels of "IRi lover", etc. from this bunch of delusionars.

How

could one fall into the trap of this huge propaganda machine is beyond belief.  "educated"?  A B.A. degree is considered "education"? How about giving the money his famiy stole to some iranian charity if he truly "loves" Iran.  It is all BS

Don't get your panties twisted.

Some of you really deserve the mullahs. We haven't began eradicating even one akhond from power and, here we are fighting over who is going to run the country. Lets put our energy together and remove the cancerous tumor first, then we all decide who should take care of the patient.

Here we have a man who is educated and expect no one is coming out of the Chahe Chamgaran. He speaks several languages fluently, he is dressed well knows the politics of Iran and superpowers more than anyone else ( As his father and grand father were victims of such politics ) he is nationalist and loves Iran with all his heart ( unlike the present arab rulers ). So stop with the RP bashing and unless you know anyone better qualified, give this man a chance. He can pull us out of this mess. He will make a fine democratic president, he has my one vote. lets all get behind him, I don't see anyone else stepping out to the plate, do you?

Stop Execution and torture of Iranians in Islamic regime Prisons