When Omid Dana triggers the widest Demos in Pasargard where Slogans such as Javid Shah and Pahlavi Pahlavi are shouted he is branded a "fascist" but when this nobody aided by the reformist camp and NIAC Think Tanks eversince the Green Movement put her into the spotlight thanks to the Iranian Sheriff of San FRancisco and Iranian Dot Com and Ebrahin Yazdi's buddy Maziar Bahari's Iranwire she is applauded as some Icon and even endorsed by Reza Na-Pahlavi despite her calling his dad a "great dictator" ...
As long as he supports Iran's territorial integrity knowing full well that RP's Israeli and Saudi allies are dreaming of nothing shorter than the destruction of Iran ...
then Dana's defending Assad is secondary ...
In the bloody region falling into religious extremist hands blowing up Palmyr and other historical sites he is not the only one to consider supporting Assad as the least of two evils.
I happen to disagree with Dana on that but I fully share his analysis on the regional threats represented by RP's financial backers be it the Israeli Orthodox fanatics and the Saudi allies from whom RP has openly asked for support.
Coming from a Persian Prince to go about and Seek Saudi help ...this is all the more shocking!
Iran's territorial integrity is not negotiable ... The mess in Syria is not merely of Iran's doing.
And RP's dubious treachery not only towards his father and grandfather who founded Iran's nationalism won't go unnoticed.
He sold his soul and squandered his good name and the ideals of the monarchy in the process in a cheap bid to see the IRI destroyed ( kowing full well he cannot do so alone ) even if it means seeing Iran destroyed to satisfy his short term allies own bloody agenda :
TRust me if EVER the Saudi's dare attack Iran and that as a Persian Prince this threacherous Shahrvand doesn't go and take the first plane back to IRan or with anyother means to join the fight as an F14 pilot against foreign intervention on his country as he disingenuously claimed so back in 1980 ...
Then he better accept Nothing short of a suicide mission next time he opens his Fat Mouth !
Completely agree with Mehrban and with DK's first comment. And all this is thanks to the fossil, 1960's and 70's freeloaders who came here as "students" on Iranian public's dime, became "leftist an-tellectuals," helped bring about the 1979 Devolution, went to Iran for a couple of months after the great vitory, realized what colossal f**k up the Devolution was, put their tails between their legs and high tailed it out of the revolutionary utopia that they had created, returned to the U.S. and Europe, became "college professors," i.e., moftkhors and freeloaders (again) mainly in publicly funded state universities --because their lazy asses couldn't do anything else like taking on a real job, and finally they became pundits in the media and in government circles, and helped shape the narrative about everything Iran and Iranian. One thing they all have in common though: the 1979 Devolution was the greatest achievement in their otherwise worthless lives--and they will go to their graves (hopefully soon if we're lucky) defending that abomination.
RP distancing himself from his original agenda which was dictated to him not just by history but his father's last will started at the time of his flirtations with Ali Reza Nourizadeh as early as the 1980's and then reaffirmed as the Pro Green Activists started taking front stage in 2009 thanks to all these left wing parazites who took over VOA Persian and BBC Persian ranging from Kambiz Hosseini and Saman Arbabi who were activiely promoting an anti Shah narrative and belittling the monarchists as "out of touch" with contemporary Iran ... as if these guys hardly born at the time of the Shah were any more in touch with today's world.
RP ignored all the pro monarchy demos organized in London and Germany by genuine monarchist activists over the years to recluse himself and only come onto stage after Daryoush Homayoun and other genuine and vocal monarchists had passed away.
Even Former Iranian Ambassador under the Imperial regime Ardeshir Zahedi also expressed disgust at rumors of the Persian Prince's connections and taking money from the Saudis as a sign of treason.
He never mentioned RP directly but it takes little stretch of the mind to know who he was thinking about.
The Turning point of RP's treachery started with his creation of his unconstitutional shora ( National Council) the name itself unimaginatively copied from that of NIAC.
Each clumsy and insensitive political move on his part drew him further from his historical agenda and Oath made in 1980 and reached the pinnacle of incompetence when his channel and spokespersons ( Nazilla Golestan and Reza Pirzadeh ) managed to arrogantly insult the poor Shahram Homayoun who for years and at the worst time for monarchists was staunchly trying to defend the monarchist cause and keep the monarchists united despite their increasing doubts on RP's competence and loyalty.
The coup de grace for Homayoun happened when he lost his father and broke up on air and having lost my own father The insensitiveness and intellectual arrogance of RP came to light for me at least.
I realized that nobody can save RP from himself.
No Damage control, no effort could do any good.
I started having my own doubts when I saw how RP blew up his first conference after the demos in 2009 by "Crying" for Neda.
He ignored EVERY Symbolic Gesture when it mattered. Whether when Shapour Bakhtiar's assassins were freed ( making sure Nikahang Kowsar does his "investigation" on Bakhtiar's so called ties with Saddam ... which make RP's own flirtations today even more hypocritical) to going to an Ebi Concert when his own Aunt Princess Ashraf was laid to rest or that of the late Shapour Gholam Reza.
To his belittling of the 50th anniversary of the Pahlavi Dynasty ceremonies where he went and gave a silly interview with Nikahang Kowsar and Morad Bargi with silly anecdotes aimed at belittling the event by saying how he was "sick on that day".
Or when he went to praise Shamloo who called Ferdowsi a Racist and other anti monarchist comments.
or when he went and signed the NIAC IRI Apologist Ramin Jahanbegloo's petition "Manshoor 99" at the same time as he created his unconstitutional shora with a bunch of PRo Green Activists to disastrous effect.
I could go on and on on the list of clumsy interviews and stupid remarks on his behalf .
When Force and strength were a political tool he squandered it with his childish approach and it became a downhill battle since.
Which paved the way for the ever increasing influence of NIAC and Trita Parsi's IRI lobbying and success in spreading the false narrative that monarchists advocated War on Iran just like the MKO.
RP did NOTHING to correct that impression during the Bush Years when he was against everyone's advice going on Air on Fox News only to end up switching sides with the Pro Green Protests of 2009 and presenting himself as a "shahrvand" because he was afraid he would be misunderstood and come across as arrogant in the face of the "Sacrifice" of Iranians back home.
The Fellow did not understand that he had history on his side and that all it took was for him to remain silent and allow debate to naturally divide Iranians abroad on the merits or not of the monarchy.
Instead he remained silent in the face of all these so called "IRan Experts" insulting his father or rewriting history as in the case of Abbas Milani.
All this allowed NIAC and ALL the Jomhurykhah camp who took over VOA Persian to depict a new narrative to feed to the young Iranian expats who had left Iran after 2009.
Instead of seizing upon the crackdown of Iranians back in 2009 and tell the world and western press who accused his Father of SAVAK's tortures and other unfounded claims he went and spoke about "democracy" and "Human Rights" as if that was not respected under the 1906 Constitution.
EVERY STEP HE TOOK WAS AIMED AT DELIGIMITIZING THE 1906 CONSTITUTION AND MAKE PEOPLE FORGET ABOUT HIS OATH MADE TO OUR GENERATION.
He even went and said publicly he would support the election of the first female President in Iran ( Aka as if he was reading from Shirin Ebadi's lips) if those monarchists who merely questioned him on his loyalty to the 1906 Constitution did not accept his daughter Noor as heir. Which she isn't anyways.
So here we are left with a Fashion Model Seeking Princess who hardly speaks Persian but is encouraged to live in LA LA LAND only to end up marrying some rich Iranian nobody ... or heaven forbid some rich American who knows with this disfunctional family what the Great Reza Shah's
Offsprings are capable to do ...
So contrary to what FRed claims this is not I who have found a "new found Hatred" for RP ... I have found it impossible to do any more damage control when the very man who is supposed to defend our cause is siding with the enemy.
RP will be remembered by historians as a Traitor to his father and grandfather's dynasty and ultimately to Iran itself.
Even Ahmad Shah Qajar did not lower himself to this level of disingenuous mediocrity !
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When Omid Dana triggers the widest Demos in Pasargard where Slogans such as Javid Shah and Pahlavi Pahlavi are shouted he is branded a "fascist" but when this nobody aided by the reformist camp and NIAC Think Tanks eversince the Green Movement put her into the spotlight thanks to the Iranian Sheriff of San FRancisco and Iranian Dot Com and Ebrahin Yazdi's buddy Maziar Bahari's Iranwire she is applauded as some Icon and even endorsed by Reza Na-Pahlavi despite her calling his dad a "great dictator" ...
Darius,
Is this Omid Dana the same one who openly supports the warmongerings of the Islamist fascists in Syria ?
As long as he supports Iran's territorial integrity knowing full well that RP's Israeli and Saudi allies are dreaming of nothing shorter than the destruction of Iran ...
then Dana's defending Assad is secondary ...
In the bloody region falling into religious extremist hands blowing up Palmyr and other historical sites he is not the only one to consider supporting Assad as the least of two evils.
I happen to disagree with Dana on that but I fully share his analysis on the regional threats represented by RP's financial backers be it the Israeli Orthodox fanatics and the Saudi allies from whom RP has openly asked for support.
Coming from a Persian Prince to go about and Seek Saudi help ...this is all the more shocking!
Iran's territorial integrity is not negotiable ... The mess in Syria is not merely of Iran's doing.
And RP's dubious treachery not only towards his father and grandfather who founded Iran's nationalism won't go unnoticed.
He sold his soul and squandered his good name and the ideals of the monarchy in the process in a cheap bid to see the IRI destroyed ( kowing full well he cannot do so alone ) even if it means seeing Iran destroyed to satisfy his short term allies own bloody agenda :
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It seems hatred, in this case a newfound hatred of Prince Reza Pahlavi, blinds completely.
Brushing aside the support of mass murders just because of commonality in hatred of Prince Reza Pahlavi is of course sorrowful and unfortunate.
However, I still hold on to the hope that this is a passing phase.
Take care Darius,
You and your Jomhurykhah likeminds are proving Trita Parsi and his IRI Apologists right :
Buddies Again ? Senator John McCain, "Shahrvand" Reza Pahlavi and Maryam Rajavi
Thank u for your disastrous work in turning a genuine opposition to the IRI into a treacherous alliance of your own misguided making:
Don't blame the Reformist "Fascists" for your own likeminds incompetence !
TRust me if EVER the Saudi's dare attack Iran and that as a Persian Prince this threacherous Shahrvand doesn't go and take the first plane back to IRan or with anyother means to join the fight as an F14 pilot against foreign intervention on his country as he disingenuously claimed so back in 1980 ...
Then he better accept Nothing short of a suicide mission next time he opens his Fat Mouth !
Completely agree with Mehrban and with DK's first comment. And all this is thanks to the fossil, 1960's and 70's freeloaders who came here as "students" on Iranian public's dime, became "leftist an-tellectuals," helped bring about the 1979 Devolution, went to Iran for a couple of months after the great vitory, realized what colossal f**k up the Devolution was, put their tails between their legs and high tailed it out of the revolutionary utopia that they had created, returned to the U.S. and Europe, became "college professors," i.e., moftkhors and freeloaders (again) mainly in publicly funded state universities --because their lazy asses couldn't do anything else like taking on a real job, and finally they became pundits in the media and in government circles, and helped shape the narrative about everything Iran and Iranian. One thing they all have in common though: the 1979 Devolution was the greatest achievement in their otherwise worthless lives--and they will go to their graves (hopefully soon if we're lucky) defending that abomination.
AO
We have a lotta those Fellows right here amongst us don't we?
RP distancing himself from his original agenda which was dictated to him not just by history but his father's last will started at the time of his flirtations with Ali Reza Nourizadeh as early as the 1980's and then reaffirmed as the Pro Green Activists started taking front stage in 2009 thanks to all these left wing parazites who took over VOA Persian and BBC Persian ranging from Kambiz Hosseini and Saman Arbabi who were activiely promoting an anti Shah narrative and belittling the monarchists as "out of touch" with contemporary Iran ... as if these guys hardly born at the time of the Shah were any more in touch with today's world.
RP ignored all the pro monarchy demos organized in London and Germany by genuine monarchist activists over the years to recluse himself and only come onto stage after Daryoush Homayoun and other genuine and vocal monarchists had passed away.
Even Former Iranian Ambassador under the Imperial regime Ardeshir Zahedi also expressed disgust at rumors of the Persian Prince's connections and taking money from the Saudis as a sign of treason.
He never mentioned RP directly but it takes little stretch of the mind to know who he was thinking about.
The Turning point of RP's treachery started with his creation of his unconstitutional shora ( National Council) the name itself unimaginatively copied from that of NIAC.
Each clumsy and insensitive political move on his part drew him further from his historical agenda and Oath made in 1980 and reached the pinnacle of incompetence when his channel and spokespersons ( Nazilla Golestan and Reza Pirzadeh ) managed to arrogantly insult the poor Shahram Homayoun who for years and at the worst time for monarchists was staunchly trying to defend the monarchist cause and keep the monarchists united despite their increasing doubts on RP's competence and loyalty.
شهرام همایون بابت عدم رودررویی با شاهزاده رضا پهلوی امروزدربرنامه آخرین لحظه ازبینندکان خداحافظی کرد:::
پنجشنبه ۲۱ خرداد ۱۳۹۴ - ۱۱ ژوئن۲۰۱۵
The coup de grace for Homayoun happened when he lost his father and broke up on air and having lost my own father The insensitiveness and intellectual arrogance of RP came to light for me at least.
I realized that nobody can save RP from himself.
No Damage control, no effort could do any good.
I started having my own doubts when I saw how RP blew up his first conference after the demos in 2009 by "Crying" for Neda.
He ignored EVERY Symbolic Gesture when it mattered. Whether when Shapour Bakhtiar's assassins were freed ( making sure Nikahang Kowsar does his "investigation" on Bakhtiar's so called ties with Saddam ... which make RP's own flirtations today even more hypocritical) to going to an Ebi Concert when his own Aunt Princess Ashraf was laid to rest or that of the late Shapour Gholam Reza.
To his belittling of the 50th anniversary of the Pahlavi Dynasty ceremonies where he went and gave a silly interview with Nikahang Kowsar and Morad Bargi with silly anecdotes aimed at belittling the event by saying how he was "sick on that day".
Or when he went to praise Shamloo who called Ferdowsi a Racist and other anti monarchist comments.
or when he went and signed the NIAC IRI Apologist Ramin Jahanbegloo's petition "Manshoor 99" at the same time as he created his unconstitutional shora with a bunch of PRo Green Activists to disastrous effect.
I could go on and on on the list of clumsy interviews and stupid remarks on his behalf .
When Force and strength were a political tool he squandered it with his childish approach and it became a downhill battle since.
Which paved the way for the ever increasing influence of NIAC and Trita Parsi's IRI lobbying and success in spreading the false narrative that monarchists advocated War on Iran just like the MKO.
RP did NOTHING to correct that impression during the Bush Years when he was against everyone's advice going on Air on Fox News only to end up switching sides with the Pro Green Protests of 2009 and presenting himself as a "shahrvand" because he was afraid he would be misunderstood and come across as arrogant in the face of the "Sacrifice" of Iranians back home.
The Fellow did not understand that he had history on his side and that all it took was for him to remain silent and allow debate to naturally divide Iranians abroad on the merits or not of the monarchy.
Instead he remained silent in the face of all these so called "IRan Experts" insulting his father or rewriting history as in the case of Abbas Milani.
All this allowed NIAC and ALL the Jomhurykhah camp who took over VOA Persian to depict a new narrative to feed to the young Iranian expats who had left Iran after 2009.
Instead of seizing upon the crackdown of Iranians back in 2009 and tell the world and western press who accused his Father of SAVAK's tortures and other unfounded claims he went and spoke about "democracy" and "Human Rights" as if that was not respected under the 1906 Constitution.
EVERY STEP HE TOOK WAS AIMED AT DELIGIMITIZING THE 1906 CONSTITUTION AND MAKE PEOPLE FORGET ABOUT HIS OATH MADE TO OUR GENERATION.
He even went and said publicly he would support the election of the first female President in Iran ( Aka as if he was reading from Shirin Ebadi's lips) if those monarchists who merely questioned him on his loyalty to the 1906 Constitution did not accept his daughter Noor as heir. Which she isn't anyways.
So here we are left with a Fashion Model Seeking Princess who hardly speaks Persian but is encouraged to live in LA LA LAND only to end up marrying some rich Iranian nobody ... or heaven forbid some rich American who knows with this disfunctional family what the Great Reza Shah's
Offsprings are capable to do ...
So contrary to what FRed claims this is not I who have found a "new found Hatred" for RP ... I have found it impossible to do any more damage control when the very man who is supposed to defend our cause is siding with the enemy.
RP will be remembered by historians as a Traitor to his father and grandfather's dynasty and ultimately to Iran itself.
Even Ahmad Shah Qajar did not lower himself to this level of disingenuous mediocrity !
Sigh ...
For some peculiar reason Fred’s “passing phase” comment echoed the reaction of a simpleton upon realization that his teenage child is a homosexual!!
Now that is what i call a Contructive dialouge .
And to think that it comes from the ones who advocate passionately againt all logical solutions, and for a vision!!! foriran's future.
LOL