ROYALTY: Yasmine Pahlavi A Princess in Love

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ROYALTY: Yasmine Pahlavi A Princess in Love
by Darius Kadivar
06-Feb-2010
 

Yasmine Pahlavi (born Yasmine Amini, 26 June 1968) is the wife of Reza Pahlavi, the eldest son of the Shah of Iran and the crown prince of Iran as well as heir to the Peacock Throne.

Sultaneh Ghalbha aka Sultan of My Heart performed by Monika Jalili and Noorsaaz Band:

Faramarz Aslani age ye rooz:

She is a graduate of The George Washington University Law School and currently works for the Children's Law Center in Washington, DC. She is one of the Founders and Directors of the Foundation for the Children of Iran. Started in 1991, the Foundation's mission is to marshal the considerable resources and goodwill of the Iranian diaspora coupled with remarkable expertise and generosity of the American medical community to treat Iranian children suffering from complex medical conditions. Organized under the 501(c)(3) rules of Internal Revenue Service, the Foundation has faithfully fulfilled its mission restoring the health and quality of life for scores of Iranian children regardless of race, religion, or political affiliations.

Yasmine married Crown Prince of Iran, Reza Pahlavi on June 12, 1986, and the couple have three daughters:

  1. Princess Noor, born 3 April 1992
  2. Princess Iman, born 12 September 1993
  3. Princess Farah, born 17 January 2004

The family currently resides in Potomac, Maryland.

Recommended Readings:

YASMINE'S MISSION FOR IRAN'S CHILDREN By Darius KADIVAR

La Princesse Noor D'Iran: Un Coeur A Prendre! by Darius KADIVAR

A QUEEN'S LOYALTY By Darius KADIVAR

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Veiled Prophet of Khorasan

Phantom

by Veiled Prophet of Khorasan on

 

I don't speak French. If you want to be understood try Persian or English. I am highly underwhelmed by your writings,. Sure I could plug it into the "French to English" translation web page but it ain't worth it. Why don't your stop being so arroagnt. You are no better than any of us. 


Veiled Prophet of Khorasan

Q

by Veiled Prophet of Khorasan on

wouldn't "Soltane-GHABR-ha" be more appropriate song

No it would not! Under the Pahlavi's Iran enjoyed one of the most stable and peaceful times. The biggest mistake of the Shah was not to take out more of the traitor communist and Islamists. It cost him his throne and cost Iran millions of lives.


maziar 58

conclusion...

by maziar 58 on

forget the greens and just take Q (qmars) for president; he seems to portray himself righteous,fair and balanced.

Monarchy is history, according to some,IRR is brute according to majority ,so le's keep it as is and put a new president for life. Maziar


vildemose

moral of the story: some

by vildemose on

moral of the story: some people just need killing...problem solved, right??

And these people call themselves, "progressive"???

 

 


benross

I forgot to mention. She

by benross on

I forgot to mention. She looks lovely DK.


hamsade ghadimi

moral of the story

by hamsade ghadimi on

moral of the story: the iranian revolution is still going on, 31 years and counting.  and anyone who opposes the velayat faghih is a mohareb and their death is justified for the glorious vf.  very much like the communist russia and their velayat lenin.  today i learned about just death and unjust death and that any death under vf is of the just kind.  so the fight is not over democracy, not of human rights, not over theocracy, it's about canidate a being president and not candidate b.


Q

MM, yes I know, I have learned my lesson

by Q on

When someone is irrational and single-minded enough to only blindly repeat his or her previous positions, no amount of logic and historical evidence can do any good. That person is too far gone for rational arguments.

So, I agree with you completely.


MM

When are you & Wilma going to join the 21st century?

by MM on

Giving us examples from the stone-age to the 19th century will not help your cause.  Justification because other countries did it will not help you either. 

At least Fred and Wilma Flintstone made us laugh with their frolics.


Q

Yea, Really!

by Q on

Javid jan, don't kill yourself. I do defend the truth and I am one of the few people who can do it dispassionately. I don't defend brutality and oppression.

What I said was that "number of deaths" (your argument) is not an indication of justice of any event. This is especially true of Iran where the number of lives lost is actually an indication of moral justice and strength. You chose to be a typical hothead and decided I must mean I approve of *injustice*.

Despite your distraction my point still stands. Iranians as well as most other people around the world do not see a negative correlation between number of lives lost and the "justice" of the situation. If you do, you are in a tiny (and by most measures immoral) minority.

The French revolution is the monumental historical event in World democracy. Many people died, many many people compared to the Monarchy. So does that mean the French revolution was wrong?

Hmm ?

During World War II, the Russians decided to put up a fierce resistence to the Nazis. Some 20 million people died. Of course if they could have not resisted at all and hardly anybody would have died. Does that mean, it was wrong to fight the Nazis?

Hmm ?

American civil war is the record holder for the number of American that died during any conflict: not just soldiers but civilians under horrible brutality, much of it by the Northern armies. It's laughably obvious that no one would have died if they just didn't go to war. Even the freed slaves died in much higher numbers AFTER the war due to poverty and unemployment and revenge attack, then before. So you would say it was wrong to free the slaves?

Hmm ?

You and the "esteemed hindsight historians" (TM) have often claimed that Khomeini could have easily saved a million lives if he just accepted the word of the crazy Saddam Hussein in 1983 and signed a cease fire. I don't buy this personally, but there's something else Khomeini could have done to save EVER MORE lives: give up Khuzestan and not fight at all. That would have save the MOST lives including those in 1980-83. So are you saying it was wrong to fight Saddam Hussein?

Hmm ?

Maybe Khomeini should have caved in to the campaign of terror and assassinations and just not retaliated against Rajavi or Communists. Maybe you think that would have made Iran a better place.

I wonder how Shah or any government would have reacted to an organized foreign-funded ARMED attempt to take over Iran, while still virtually at war with TWO world super powers. Would people like Kadivar cry about human rights under those circumstances? Or would they be more like the majority Americans who tolerated injustices such as rape and torture in the aftermath of 9/11. The comparison is actually moot: America was never in any real danger, like Iran was.

As you can see it depends 100% on the situation and rarely on "number of lives." If the cause is truly just, the amount of lives don't matter. In fact, it is often an indication of moral justice as in ("we shed blood for this, it must be right"). I didn't make up the rules: read your human history, especially Iranian.

I don't let Shah off the hook for making Iran, in the words of Amnesty International, "the number one human rights violator of the decade (70's)" and I don't care for any of the IRI human rights violations and certainly am not "defending" any of it. But a one-sided hypocrisy condemning JUST the people of the opposite political persuasion, which is what most of your site pushes 90% of the time, is hardly a "fair" context of discussion to begin with.


MM

what is the litmus test for a successful regime?

by MM on

In addition, while extremely surprised, I am just curious how one would classify the # of killings by a regime? 


Faramarz

تبليغ بانك ِ عمران با آهنگ سلطان ِ قلب ها

Faramarz


 

 

توى دنيا هر كسى يه جورى پول و در مياره
يكى ميره مغازه
يكى ميره اداره
اين كارگر هستش
اون زمين ميكاره

آره جونم دست بزن به كارى
كه بيشتر پول درآرى
ديگه نشين رو دستت
نكن تو استخارهِ
اين چاره كاره
اين كارى نداره

كى ميخوادش دو هزار تومان
كه سر ِ هر ماه بهش بِدن
منو منو منو منو من
بيائيد با من من من

بياين بريم بانك ِ عمران
به بهترين بانك ِ ايران
كه باز كنيم حساب در آن
همه مرد و زن

Please sing along if you remember this commercial from the early 70's


Jahanshah Javid

Really? Q

by Jahanshah Javid on

Really? So it doesn't matter if thousands of political prisoners were executed in 1988? That alone can't be a measure of whether a government is "just" or not? What is your measure of justice? Isn't respect for human rights one of THE most important principles? Isn't that why the people rebelled against the shah, because he did not respect human rights and tortured, killed and jailed political prisoners? Have you forgotten already? Wake up! 22 Bahman is around the corner.

And you say today's rulers are anti-sultans? What is a sultan? Isn't he an absolute ruler? Just because Khamenei wears a turban means he's not a sultan? He's not a dictator? What is "velayate motlagheh faghih"? Please enlighten us.

Amazing how far you will go trash the shah and the Pahlavis and defend the Islamic Republic. Try to defend the truth from time to time. Then you can be critical of anybody or defend them based on facts and principles of fairness, not based on blind loyalty to the monarchy or the Islamic Republic.


The Phantom Of The Opera

"...other things just make you swear and curse..."

by The Phantom Of The Opera on

Monsieur, Je veux vous assurer sincèrement que je n'ai eu rien à faire avec le votre étant interdit de cet emplacement pendant deux semaines. Je me demande juste s'il n'y a aucun programme d'allocation de chômage où vous vivez.

//www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2UP86bciVA

 

Les Pahlavis, les mollahs, et tous les personnages public associé avec le Mouvement Vert, doivent révéler la source et le montant de leur fortune/revenus. 


MM

Soltane Ghalbha - Ahdieh & Aref in Ganj-e Ghaaroon

by MM on


hamsade ghadimi

is it ironic or iranic

by hamsade ghadimi on

on my first week on i.com darius called me a bache akhoond because i direclty asked him if he views the ex shah as a dictator (granted he apologized to me on the next response; btw, his response was yes) and q called me a monarchist when i directed a response to him.  now they are in a pissing constest on civility on the internet.  i advise others to stay away from the crossfire as your dry cleaning bills could rise.  i wish both darius and qmars well and hope you and the rest of iranians see the day that iran is a free and democratic country where human rights are respected.

btw, let's just call it supreme leader of the ghabrha and call it a day.  and yes q, number of deaths, tortures, rapes by the government are very important.  unless one is a blind proponent of the said government.


maziar 58

..........

by maziar 58 on

are we dealing with zombies ?          I hope you were not born during ghajar  ,cause to deny and insult yor own eras of up bringing(during pahlavi's dynasty) is an insult to yourself.

* har che begandad namakash mizanand

vay be rooz......                            Maziar


Q

If they were "Sultans" maybe you would have a point, Javid

by Q on

but in fact they were very much anti-Sultan.

My point referred to the dead leaders of the Pahlavi hereditary dictatorship not people, in that particular comment.

But since you mention it, you should know that "number of deaths" by itself has never been considered as the litmus in determining what event was "right" or "just". Not by Iranians, not by most people around the world.


Anonymouse

BTW DK jaan u also have the option to delete & repost this blog

by Anonymouse on

Everything is sacred.


Jahanshah Javid

Q

by Jahanshah Javid on

Soltan-e Ghabrha is the title befitting of the leaders of the Islamic Republic. Beheshte Zahra ro Abaad kardan. Not to mention cemeteries throughout Iran.

Do you want to count and compare the number of people killed before and after the revolution? You want to make a bet who will win the grand title of Soltan-e Ghabrha?

Hmm?


benross

Dear Jahanshah

by benross on

I agree with you. Deleting the comments is not the solution. Yet, it doesn't feel right. You did bring-up a few times, the numbness that we have developed toward the news of killing, torturing and arresting Iranian activists and journalists. We have become insensitive to it as a matter of routine, as if this is the way it should be.

Now you are advocating to get used to Pahlavi bashing, since Pahlavi themselves are used to it. Does it sound right to you?

We have many anti-monarchists in this site, expressing their ideas. This is not the issue. We even have a republican constitution already in place in this site! But ridiculing constantly a monarchist, only because he is introducing the would be queen of Iran, in such personal way without herself doing anything to call for a reaction (and reactionary) comment, as VPK mentioned, is 'unhelpful' to say the least. It also challenges us to dig deep in our moral fabric and where we allow the numbness to carry-on.


Q

wouldn't "Soltane-GHABR-ha" be more appropriate song

by Q on

when it comes to this cursed family? :)

Javid is right (in this case), you really need to learn to live with criticism and difference of opinion. The fact that you can't really control yourself but still call for FREE IRAN!!! is amusingly ironic, as is your attempt to make this forgotten herditary dictatorship relevant again in some small way.

So you were punished! Banned or had your comments deleted! Oh no! Now you are in the same boat as everyone else (including the people you call insulting profane names like "MonQ").

My respect for Javid has incrased because he was sheltering you for such a long time.

Maybe that has gone to your head.


Anonymouse

DK jaan let it go.

by Anonymouse on

On a side note she must be a good cook! 

Everything is sacred.


Darius Kadivar

JJ and I ALSO HAVE the Right to Be Angry ( MAI ' 68 Slogans )

by Darius Kadivar on

Why IS Using Profanity IN SELF DEFENCE then Censored for that Matter ?

According to What Ambiuguous Political Correctness ?

YOU THE FORMER REVOLUTIONARY SHOULD KNOW BETTER THE SLOGAN OF MAY '68:

"IL EST INTERDIT d"INTERDIRE !"

 

ADAB AZ KEH AMOUKHTEE AS BEE ADABAN ! 

 

 

 


Veiled Prophet of Khorasan

Pahlavis

by Veiled Prophet of Khorasan on

I am not a Monarchist but I dream of the good days of the Shah. I would gladly take him over the IRR garbage. Is their market good? Yes! Pahlavi stock is at an all time high and getting higher. I think it has a long way to go up. Anyone with a brain comparing the Phalavis to these barbaric crowd running Iran would salute the Phalavis.

Dear Phantom:

I have read many of your posting both in Persian and English. I have found them to put politely be "unhelpful". 

 


Jahanshah Javid

Think what you want

by Jahanshah Javid on

Darius, you are repeating yourself. You were temporarily banned, as others have been, because you would not stop using profanity and making personal attacks.

It's not going to make any difference if you scream and shout every time The Phantom Of The Opera or someone else leaves a comment on your blog which you don't approve of. They have the right to do so.


Darius Kadivar

JJ What's Wrong ? HERE IS WHAT IS WRONG !

by Darius Kadivar on

I Was BANNED FRom this website for TWO Weeks BY YOU because of a number of ANONYMOUS People including Phantom Aka FAGHAN 's JOINT EFFORTS TO DISCREDIT ME. Here are their Names Hajminator, Jaleho and Q because simply I tried to defend MY HONOR and in the PROCESS INSULTED THEM !

I NEVER INSULTED PEOPLE WITH REAL IDENTITIES A NAME AND PHOTO FOR WHICH THEY COULD BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE FOR A GIVEN OPINION !

BUT I WAS PUNISHED AND NEVER THEM WHY ?

CERTAINLY NOT THIS FELLOW FOR CALLING FOR MY DEATH !

USING PROFANITY MY FOOT !

How many People Here have been Using PRofanity over the years WITHOUT THE SLIGHTEST MODERATION FROM YOU !

BUT I WAS USED TO SET THE EXAMPLE to OTHERS ? HOW CONVENIENT AND HYPOCRITICAL OF YOU !

YES I INSULTED THEM BECAUSE THEY WENT AS FAR AS THREATENING ME AND MY FAMILY AND NOT JUST ONLINE !

HAJMINTOR WHOM I NEVER MET WENT AND MADE DEVULGATION OF PRIVATE INFORMATION ON ME AND MY FAMILY WHICH I HAVE NEVER SHARED ANYWHERE ! HOW DID HE GET THIS INFO ? WHY CAN'T I KNOW WHO HE IS WITH A REAL NAME AND PHOTO AND YET BE APPROACHED IN SUCH A THREATENING WAY ?  

Why Can SOmeone under ANONYMITY BE Allowed to Behave this Way AND NEVER Be Moderated ?

WHO GAVE THEM SUCH INFO ? WHERE DID THEY GET IT ? I HAVE NO CLUE AND I KNOW PERFECTLY THAT THEY COULD NOT HAVE HAD THIS TYPE OF INFO SO EASILY !

I DON'T CARE WHAT THEY SAY FOR AN EXCUSE SIMPLY TO CONTINUE THIS BEHAVIOR  !

IF THEY WANT WAR THEY WILL HAVE WAR AND I AM THEN ENTITLED TO USE PROFANITY AGAINST PEOPLE WHO DO NOT RESPECT MY PRIVACY !

THERE ARE FAR WORSE THINGS GOING ON THAN USING PROFANITY ON THIS SITE IT's WHEN YOU ENCOURAGE VENDETTA BY ANONYMOUS PEOPLE WITH NO ACCOUNTABILITY !

ONE OF THEM IS YOUR BIASED BEHAVIOR IS CHOOSING WHO IS POLTICALLY CORRECT AND WHO IS NOT !

LASTLY DON'T GIVE ME THE CRAPPY EXCUSE ABOUT TOLERANCE AND FREE SPEACH TOWARDS OTHER PEOPLE's VIEWS !

I HAVE NEVER SHYED AWAY FROM DEBATE OR EVEN NASTY JOKES BUT THIS IS HARRASMENT !

YOU JUST MODERATE WHEN IT SUITS YOU NOT WHEN IT HAS TO BE DONE !

I AM FED UP OF POLLUTING MY HARD WORK WITH SOME STUPID COMMENT BY THE SAME REGULAR GUYS !

FEEL FREE TO CALL ME A FANATIC IF YOU WISH BUT DON'T YOU EVER DARE TREAT ME AS IF I WERE A FOOL !

Best,

DK

 

 

 


Jahanshah Javid

What's wrong?

by Jahanshah Javid on

Darius,

If we question or make fun of Khamenei, Ahmadinejad, Bush, Obama, Berlusconi, Chavez, Netanyahou or Kim Il Jong, we can't do the same with the Pahlavis?

Live with it. The Pahlavis do.


Darius Kadivar

JJ PLEASE DELETE BOTH COMMENTS HERE FOR PEACE SAKE !

by Darius Kadivar on

PHANTOM AKA FAGHAN I  Told YOU POLITELY AND REPEATEDLY TO SCRAM NOW I TELL YOU TO FUCK OFF FROM MY BLOGS !

YOUR COMMENTS ARE NOT WELCOME HERE !

JJ PLEASE DELETE BOTH COMMENTS HERE !

Best,

DK


The Phantom Of The Opera

Thanks Daaryoosh joon

by The Phantom Of The Opera on

It's very good to know that despite the market meltdown, financial turmoil, and job crisis which have haunted the "real people who don't live inside a bubble" the Pahlavis' flea market is actively engaged in trading, exchanging, and recycling royal titles.

What princess for God's grace? can't you at least keep this one in her original package?

The Pahlavis, all mullahs, and all public figures associated with the Green Movement  must disclose the source and the amount of their wealth/income.