Posted on 01/03/2018 4:21:27 PM PST by Kaslin
I went to free those hostages
A friend of mine was formerly a bodyguard of the Shah. He highly respected him and loved his country. I believe he would be happy to see the son rule.
This is just me: but if I see a bunch of English language signs in a non-English speaking country I really, really doubt whatever they’re trying to project. They’re there for whose consumption? Never trust them.
This is even true of educated countries where it’s at least plausable that the protestors know English.
But especially true of Muslim ones!
Wow, impressive.
Thank you.
Sorry you had to do it under Carter.
“A friend of mine was formerly a bodyguard of the Shah.”
His current body guards have a much easier job.
He must not have had his nuts electrocuted by Savak.
If someone stands up and claims a hereditary right to rule, they deserve to be gunned down that very same moment.
That’s why we kicked out the British here in America.
It is a matter of opinion if Carter is a true Christian. I tend to think he is a wolf in sheep's clothing.
That’s been my take also.
He loves to project that image, but I think he’s a hateful old sod.
What Christian cares so little for his wife, that he does a Playboy interview and reveals to the public that he lusts after women other than his wife?
We all know the human condition, but we try to protect the feelings of the ones we love.
We try not to be lustful, and we certainly don’t rub it in our wife’s face in front of the nation, if we lapse.
The man is a fool.
If he doesn’t care for his wife more than this, does he love anyone other than himself?
If that prick has a shred of common enlightenment decency, he would tell Iran that installing a Shah or a King is just as disgusting as the Ayatollahs.
Then he should tell them he will work to create a new representative republican form of government that he will never be a part of personally. If he walks away like George Washington when he was offered to be a king, he will be a great man.
But if he entertains the idea that he should rule, he is no good.
I’m with you. He wasn’t the bogeyman they painted him to be, but he was trying to drag them out of the Stone Age (Kind of like what Trump appears to be doing to our own government in a different way) which generates hate and discontent to those who have a vested interest in a certain way of doing things.
I went to A-School (USN jet school) with a bunch of Iranians back in the Seventies, and I liked them in general.
Effing Carter, may he rot, completely sold him out. Big surprise.
True :)
Well, Iran is not America. The thought there is a little different.
Once again, reporters are lazy.
That’s the son? Are you sure that’s not a picture of the Shah? If it is the resemblance is uncanny
Kings are a good form of government for ethnic, tribal, and traditional societies.
Yep, removing Mosaddegh was maybe the biggest US policy blunder of the 20th century.
So that’s where bling came from?
The Shah was a mixed bag. Like Czar Nicholas, he paled in comparison to what followed. Maybe we don’t hear much about people’s nuts getting shocked today because the Aysyollahs are so much more efficient at just liquidating their enemies.
“Hussein-Ali Montazeri, who was once the designated successor to Ruhollah Khomeini, said that the Shah did not kill even 10 percent of what Ruhollah Khomeini's regime had killed.”
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammad_Reza_Pahlavi
Then again not all the mullahs’ prisoners have testicles.
“Shabnam Madadzadeh, 29, was kept in a tiny cell, beaten and interrogated during her agonising years behind bars.
The activist was forced to listen from solitary confinement as female inmates were raped, before she was made to watch male guards beat and electrocute her brother Farzad as they ordered her to tell them about opposition group the People’s Mojaheidn Organisation of Iran (MEK).”m
I doubt the Crown Prince would want anything more than a constitutional monarchy, though don’t think it will ever happen.
However, if the Ayatollahs fall, would the Iranian Guard quickly fill the power vacuum? In my opinion that would be more oppressive than the current theocracy.
My truck salesman is an Iranian fro the 1970’s He said while the Shah was not perfect, he kept the country in far better shape and would welcome another man like him.
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