Farah: "People Are Impatient"

Interviewed by Barbara Walters about Iranian student protesters during Shah's 1977 US visit

21-May-2012
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Rea

True class

by Rea on Tue May 22, 2012 08:59 AM PDT


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Siavash300

Great lady with great ideas about Iran

by Siavash300 on Tue May 22, 2012 08:22 AM PDT

The most talented, kind hearted, welll educated and well manner lady who deserves to presents Iranian women among international community. God bless our queen Farah Pahlavi. Wish her health, happiness in life.


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Mohammad Ala

General comments

by Mohammad Ala on Tue May 22, 2012 06:56 AM PDT

… everyone has paid or will pay for his or her mistake, some rightly and others wrongly. 

What we do (as people) or have done should reflect who we are.  Time might not be kind to all of us which constitutes what life is all about.  Iran is and will be important; we (the people) are transient.


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hafez

She did so much for Iran

by hafez on Mon May 21, 2012 10:16 PM PDT

It is very easy to understand why Iran is in such a sorry shape once one realizes that we swapped Ms. Farah Pahlavi with Ms. Batool Khomeini.  Enough said.


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tehran e Azad

iranians

by tehran e Azad on Mon May 21, 2012 09:52 PM PDT

majority of Iranians are nothing but a whole bunch barberic animals stuck in the middle ages ............

you were and are to modern and advanced for the iranians!


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MRX1

classy

by MRX1 on Mon May 21, 2012 08:42 PM PDT

she was and is very classy lady and a great Queen. It's too sad that some people put her down mostly because on thier own inferior compleixty and all sort of oghdeh and issues.....


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maziar 58

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by maziar 58 on Mon May 21, 2012 07:43 PM PDT

thank you for maxing on your first ammendment.

the only ignorants are the one still waiting for his "zohhoor".

Maziar


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Elham57

Farah Pahlavi

by Elham57 on Mon May 21, 2012 07:34 PM PDT

One classy lady, and one of us.


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Babak K.

She sounds like Mrs. 

by Babak K. on Mon May 21, 2012 06:34 PM PDT

She sounds like Mrs.  Bashar-Al-Assad,  Mrs.  Marcus,  Gaddafi's daughter, Saddam Hussein daughter, Mrs. Noriega,..... 


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Darius Kadivar

It's true that you Jomhurykhahs prefer 'thoughtful' 1st Ladies

by Darius Kadivar on Mon May 21, 2012 03:30 PM PDT

It's true that you Jomhurykhahs prefer "deeply thoughtful" First Ladies ...

 

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First Amendment

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by First Amendment on Mon May 21, 2012 02:20 PM PDT

This is my problem with Farah Diba: She is as superficial, and ignorant today as she was more than three decades ago.


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Darius Kadivar

Marie Antoinette NOT ...

by Darius Kadivar on Mon May 21, 2012 10:34 AM PDT

And to think that the Revolutionaries of 79 were drawing all these silly comparisons with the French Revolution ...

HISTORY FORUM: Bahram Moshiri's Take on The French Revolution and Why He Misses The Point ;0)

>REVOLUTION DEMYSTIFIED: Truth and Lies Surrounding the French Revolution

The Shahbanou was fully aware that as an open country which allowed it's citizens to travel abroad mentalities would naturally be influenced by democratic ideals and hence the regime needed to evolve. So did the Shah as Abbas Milani seems to suggest in his Book:

MILANI ON ANDISHEH TV: "History Will Be Kind To The Shah"

The trouble was that our so called intelligentsia was essentially composed of frustrated pseudo thinkers who 'pretended' to understand the mechanisms of a democratic society and political discourse but had absolutely no idea of how to implement them or bring about the conditions which could force the government ( as opposed to the regime) to make concessions on democracy in a give and take process ...

Mashallah Ajoudani on Intellectuals and the '79 Revolution

How else can one explain then that The equally religious Poles who unlike us Iranians at the time truly lived under a Totalitarian state with no outside connection with the Free world didn't make the same mistake as Iranians ?

Solidarnosc used religion as a unifying force but never advocated a religious State in replacement of the Secular Communist One ...

Iran's Farah Pahlavi and Poland's Lech Walesa

On the contrary ...

The Polish Revolution was essentially a peaceful one which resulted to the breakdown of the entire Soviet Empire and hence subsequently served as an inspiration to all the Velevet Revolutions in the Eastern Bloc as a practical and efficient blueprint for civil dissobedience.

Shahbanou Farah, Mikhail Gorbachev and Mahnaz Afkhami

Crown Prince Reza’s Tribute to the Late Vaclav Havel (1936-2011)

Contrary to the Poles The type of Intellectuals we had were the likes of Bazargan, Shariati, Yazdi and Co ... who prefered to see Iran become a Soviet Satellite by pure 'experimentation"

pictory:Yazdi Meets Castro, Cuba (1980's)

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

Unfortunately those who understood the dangers of advocating "revolution" were a vocal minority abandoned for the most by their own constituency ...

VOCAL MINORITY: Pro Shah and Pro Bakhtiar Demos amidst 1979 Revolution

Seems we haven't moved any more forward today in that regard with all our pseudo ANN TELECTUALS who are rampant on BBC PErsian with the likes of Ramin Jahanbegloo, Massoud Behnoud or Shirin Ebadi ...

Shadi Sadre's Rebuttal of Massoud Behnoud's Endorsement of IRI Constitution

Shirin Ebadi warns against Iranian sanctions

Halah Hamashoon masalan Secular Shodand ? ...

Well fortunately not everyone has Alzheimers ...

HISTORY OF VIOLENCE: Man Chased by Anti Shah Protestors During Shah's US Visit (1977)

pictory:(FOR REFERENDUM BASHERS) Women Punched in Face by Revolutionaries



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