Although he had predicated it - before witnessing the depth of misery, depravity and disrepute his beloved Iran and Iranians are force to endure under the Islamist fascism - the late Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi was fortunate to have passed away. If he were still alive, today on his birthday he would have been 99 years old.
Given the state of affairs in Iran for the past forty years, it is beyond a scintilla of doubt that the revolution which overthrew the very progressive and reformable monocracy of Pahlavi has marched Iran backwards.
From women’s rights to economy, environment to state of people’s mental and physical health, Iran’s place in the world to hopefulness for a brighter future, all indicators undeniably have been and are in a steep downward trajectory.
During any chance the beleaguered Iranians get to demonstrate against Islamist fascism before being violently suppressed, their call for restoration of Pahlavi monarchy is loud and clear.
Whatever the reasons - including nostalgia for better bygone days or rejection of revolutionaries of all stripes who overthrew the Pahlavi - the question for those who love Iran, wishing her prosperity and glory that she deserves and are freed of ideology, cult of hatred for America/Israel is clear.
You miss the Shah Pahlavi yet?
Airtight sanctions - which includes oil - a la against the despicable South Africa apartheid, works. U.S. lawmakers get to it.
Yes, I do very much! God bless Shah Pahlavi!
Strange question. Dont you see that shah and sheikh are two sides of the same coin?
more than a century after the Constitutional revolution and constant struggle for basic democratic rights resulting in the loss of hundreds of thousands of best and brightest of four generations of Iranians, we s deserve a lot better than a corrupt puppet dictator. Be it shahs or the current sheikhs. The defeat of the glorious Revolution of 1979 and it's Hijack by Islamist Fascists does not alter the facts.
I think most people do. I grew up in the Shah era as a teenager and remeber the push for modenization. If allowed, Iran would have left the rest of the region in a big cloud of dust by now. There's still time, but it is running short.
BTW, the so called revolution was not hijacked - it is excatly doing what the anti-Iran mullahs want it to do: erase Iran's pre-eSSlamic past and national identity and use Iran's resources to push their vision/agenda of Shia'ism.
As I alwasy say: Religon Shits the Brain - ANY religion.
He will always be missed
Can't say the same about his do gerooni "Citizen" offspring !
Were you sodomized by Pepsi bottle by SAVAK, RG? If yes, I want proof!
No I wasnt. in 1979 I was only 10 and I guess your beloved Shah had set a lower age limit for sodomization of his opponents by his SAVAK goons. Maybe that is why his masters replaced him with Ayatolah Khomeini who true to the teachings of of cult of Shia Islam saw no age limit on torturing, raping and murdering those iranians who dared to think, read, dream and demand their basic human rights.......
I think 40 years of IRR vs. Pahlavi era, the data clearly shows that: yes there is a clear difference between sheikh and shah. The former has taken Iran to khaak-e siyaah, the latter attempted to modernize Iran out of the dark Qajar ages. The former has made Iran so zaleel that we now look up to the Arabs for achievements, while the former attempted to revive the Persian Empire so much that Carter had to backstab him and flirt with Khomeini instead.
So their imam isn't worth a roll of TP?