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The Pahlavis Needed A Perfect 'Court Jester' .....

And, believe it or not, they found that in You ;) !

P.S. Again, Looking Forward To Your Next Blog ..... !

I maintain Every Word I wrote on Shirin Ebadi and her Groupies

Add Yourself to the list too ...

COMPLAINING JOMHURYKHAH: What Have the Pahlavis EVER Done For Us ? ;0)

But since it seems to concern you so much ... Not Only do I look in the Mirror Every morning when I shave but guess what ? I am proud to recognize an Authentic Face ...

Not sure I can say the same about an invisible 'poet' who is passing through here on IC with multiple Anonymous ID's ...

//www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jw4h2-wT_tI

Just to congratulate himself on his own comments ... 

Take Care Truth Seeker !

I Want You To Always Remember This .....

I am not going to stand by, and let you attack and disparage good people, such as Shirin Ebadi, as you did in this blog:

//iranian.com/main/2011/jul/ebadis-18-tir-message

Respectfully, your comments regarding Shirin Ebadi, and people who support her, are pathetic - To call people who support her as "Losers" shows more about you than anyone else -

If you are looking for a "True Loser", please look in the mirror first ..... ! At least, these people are not a bunch of hired guns who would sell their souls to write complementary blogs regarding a corrupt family such as the Pahlavis ;) !

Finally, let me say this:

Others may have not challenged you sufficiently in the past regarding the garbage that you spew on the pages of Iranian.com - The arrogance that is in display by you, not only in this blog, but in other pages of Iranian.com, is quite self-evident, and needs no further explanation -

I want you to know that I intend to challenge you everytime that you get out of line as you did in the blog on Shirin Ebadi - Never Forget That ;) !

Sincerely,

R D

P.S. Looking Forward To Your Next Blog ;) !

I may not know much but unlike You I know who I am

As for Ad hominem Attacks ... ( No need to mention your patronizing comments on my French Roots ...) I did not start the hostilities hiding behind an Anonymous ID and Lecturing from Some other Safe Haven in Florida or elsewhere telling people how they should use their time or what they should or should not blog about or write or think ...

You are no more no less entitled than me or others to speak on behalf of Iranians back home as if you could read their minds in advance or speak for their genuine desires ...

At Least, Please Write About Something That You Know About .....

This quote from Saul Bellow has been quoted Ad hominem, and Ad nauseum by you in the pages of Iranian.com ....

Just remember that there was no poetry, or poetic vision, when the Shah fled Iran back in 1979, and left his Generals to be one by one arrested by IRI, and subsequently executed .....

The Pahlavi family have absolutely no credibility with the Iranian people - As I have indicated before, the Shah did not have the cojones to stand up to the Mullahs .....

There is a Poetic Vision for you ..... And yes, you are right, his Generals faced death after he fled ..... !

'Fantasy' Perhaps But Not Bankrupt like Your 'Rusty' Jomhury

Which very much like your lack of poetic vision (*) is Beyond Repair ...

//www.youtube.com/watch?v=1U3OUhywFVU

(*) "A Country that Loses it's Poetic Vision is a Country that faces death" -Saul Bellow ( Often Quoted by Azar Nafisi's  In her Description of the Republic of Imagination)

I'm Glad That Some Of The Monarchists .....

are beginning, again just "Beginning",  to understand some alternatives to restoring "Monarchy"  - And not living in a Fantasyland :)

P.S. Many of us have had a "Rich" prior life - Known people and met people - And not lived, or living, in a Cocoon in Paris ;) !

Yes we noticed you were familiar with EVERYTHING once published

'Been there Seen it All' Kind of Guy Eh ? ... 

Or is it just your way of passing through ? ...

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

;0)) 

Strange that someone has to remind you of your own IMMENSE knowledge ! 

PS: To readers who don't understand my response to R2-D2, nevermind it's a Private Joke ... ;0) 

If Reza Pahlavi .....

is truly serious about serving our Beloved Iran, he should indeed follow in the example set by Simeon II -

P.S. I'm very familiar with Simeon II, and also his works and commitments to the country of Bulgaria -

A True Patriot Indeed ..... :) !

Thank you Radius for your knowledgeable feedbacks

Very interesting observations indeed which prove that entering the political arena is always risky for a Royal figurehead.

Something which Simeon seemed to have tried to do through perfectly democratic means which in itself was commendable.

You cannot rule and reign at the same time. Because either way you are bound to make mistakes which will be used against you by your political foes. Having been a King but accepting to relinquish that title so as to run the country as a Prime Minister ultimately jeopardized his own chances of Restoring the Monarchy on the short term at least.

That said I believe that Simeon's experience was an interesting and bold move which should serve as a useful political lesson to anyone in the same situation who aspires to a similar role in the future ( including our very own Royal figurehead). It is important to realistically evaluate the limits that define Royal (And or Presidential) Prerogatives particularly if on the long term one hopes to establish a Constitutional Government ( be it a Monarchy or a Republic).

From what I understand however Simeon never entirely gave up his rights to the Throne. His son Prince Kardan was victim to a terrible car accident a few years ago but apparently has since recovered.

It seems that the Crown Prince of Serbia may have greater chances than Simeon in this regard given that he does not intend to play any major political role and his years of upbringing in Great Britain and ties with the British Royal Family seem to have payed off from a Public Relations perspective:

ROYAL FORUM: Crown Prince of Serbia Seeks to Restore The Monarchy 

But the major problem with most of these east European countries is that the passage from the Communist Era to a capitalist market was followed with great disappointments and inequalities which deepened the gap between the "haves" and "have nots". All this amidst efforts by these countries to meet the democratic and economic standards necessary to join the European Union.

Ironically it is an Islamic country like Turkey which economically at least has met those standards but is being refused entrance in the European Union due to cultural and historical differences which distinguish it from the Christian heritage to which most European's (including Greeks) identify themselves with.   

Interestingly though many of these Balkan Countries actually share much in common with Turkey's ethnic and cultural mosaic. Yougoslavia having had an important muslim population. In addition the Monarchy played a constructive role for centuries in preserving the cultural diversity of the people which inhabited them. 

Unfortunately the Treaties of 1919 and the redesigning of the frontiers after WWI truly left deep scars and nurtured painful divisions which were enhanced with WWII and culminated after the Cold War with the Splitting of Yugoslavia and all the collateral conflicts and tensions which followed.

The Challenges of East European Countries today are so enormous that I don't think Restoring the Monarchy is their top priority for most of them today. But when you look at the economic slump in which Greece finds itself, one can truly wonder if they are any better off today than when they prospered under a Constitutional Monarchy ? ...

0nce a King - King Constantine of Greece

all the more that ever since the Coup which toppled King Constantine and the establishment of a Republic in Greece, only two families have shared political power in Greece. It's like if the US was run alternatively by the Kennedy's and the Reagans from Father to Son for the past 40 years.

Ironic an outcome given how much the Greeks take pride in their past and see themselves as the Beacon's of "Western Civilization" and "Democracy".

In the meantime they seem to have miserably failed on both accounts and may well bring our Old Continent on it's knees once again.

Let's Hope not and that economic prosperity will be back once again and help pull these countries up on their knees again.

There is so much potential, culture and energy which can be put to constructive use in all these East European countries which deserve their share of prosperity and harmonious development denied for more than 70 years behind the Iron Curtain and wasted during the Post Communist Era.

I hope they will find a way to overcome their political and economic challenges some day soon ... It's long due ... 

Tzar Simeon

Hi Darius, When Tzar Simeon returned to Sofia in 2001 to be elected Prime Minister, he arrived with great hopes and promisses, having the ambition to bring back the country to prosperity and stability. Comming back from his life-long spanish exyl, he found a country that was devastated, but not so much by the 40 years of communism, but to a larger degree "thanks" to the ten years of post-communist "free market economy". Of course nobody wanted to have back the unfreedom and stagnation that ruled the country since the late fourties, but during this time there was a minimal living standard for everybody and the country made a peaceful and happy impression. After fall of communism, a rapid process of decay started everywhere around, paired with a unforseen rise of crime, organized mafiotic crime, corruption and political bribery and misusage of political influence. This caused the most devastating frustration in any of the former soviet block countries I have ever seen.

When Simeon arrived, he knew what he was facing. But he completely underestimated the efford and time it would take to repair all this. He was also not "political experienced" in the sense that he could cast "strategic alliances" with other groups appart from the minority who saw him as a possible reincarnation of the monarchy. Baldly said: The other political forces were mobbing him as good as they could. Simeon once attended a Gypsy wedding and declared (with obviously a very nostalgic feeling) that gypsy culture and tradition was and always deserves to be an integral part of Bulgaria. Although he was absolutely right in my eyes, most bulgarians had a big issue with this (I guess very typical of a small nation dreaming of its gorgeous past when they were raiding Byzanz or beeing part of the persian empire during the period of its largest extension). So Simeons sympathy with the gypsy minority took away from him the last support by his people. At the 2005 election his party "National Movement Simeon II" lost and had to form a coalition with the socialist. At the 2009 elections he ended 3 % and is nowadays virtually absent from the political scene.

He came with big ambitions, but little fortune, which reminds me a bit of the era of president Khatami in Iran. 

One interesting thing should be added to your historical scetch on Bulgaria: It was the only allies of Nazi Germany who resisted succesfully the deportation of the Jews. For this, I"d say, Bulgarias then Tzar BorisIII and its people would deserve the title "Righteous among the Nations" from Israel.