Posted on 02/28/2026 4:49:26 AM PST by ransomnote
ransomnote: The background of Reza Pahlavi followed by his x.com post below.
Reza Pahlavi
@PahlaviReza
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3h
My dear compatriots,Decisive moments lie before us.
The assistance that the President of the United States had promised to the brave people of Iran has now arrived. This is a humanitarian intervention, and its target is the Islamic Republic, its apparatus of repression, and its machinery of killing—not the country and great nation of Iran.
However, despite the arrival of this assistance, the final victory will still be achieved by us. It is we, the people of Iran, who will finish this task in this final battle. The time to return to the streets is approaching.
Now that the Islamic Republic is collapsing, my message to the country’s military, law enforcement, and security forces is clear:
You have sworn an oath to protect Iran and the Iranian nation, not the Islamic Republic and its leaders. Your duty is to defend the people, not to defend a regime that has taken our homeland hostage through repression and crime. Join the nation and help ensure a stable and secure transition. Otherwise, you will sink with Khamenei’s ship and his crumbling regime.
And my message to the President of the United States, President Trump, is this:
The honorable people of Iran, despite the brutal repression and killings carried out by this regime, stood bravely for nearly two months. I now ask you to exercise the utmost possible caution to preserve the lives of civilians and my compatriots. The people of Iran are your natural allies and the allies of the free world, and they will not forget your assistance during the most difficult period of Iran’s contemporary history.
And to you, my dear compatriots in Iran:
In these sensitive hours and days, more than ever we must remain focused on our ultimate goal: reclaiming Iran.
I ask you, for now, to remain in your homes and remain calm and safe. Stay alert and ready to return to the streets for the final action at the appropriate time, which I will communicate to you.
Follow my messages through social media and satellite media. If disruptions occur in the internet and satellite broadcasts, I will remain in contact with you via radio.
We are very close to final victory. I hope to be with you as soon as possible so that together we may reclaim Iran and rebuild it.
Long live Iran.
Reza Pahlavi
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Remind me again, why we supported Ukraine again?
Something about Russian naked aggression?
Had a friend many years ago, the drummer in my band, his dad was murdered during the takeover of Iran and his family fled to the US.
May God help these oppressed people to cast off the shackles of Islam.
Death to their oppressors.
Excellent
I’d like to go on record here as being in favor of these major kinetic operations in iran. That being said, what comes next is crucial. There’s a reason why the Shah of Iran was kicked over back in 79.
Carters betrayal of the Shah of Iran was preceded by decades of autocratic rule, brutal repression of dissent by secret police, torture, illegal detentions, executions. Keeping these crazy islamics under control is a dirty, brutal, nasty, bloody, painful business. Better be prepared for the democrats complaining about how peaceful iran was when it was controlled by the Mullahs. The democrats don’t like it when their dictators are pushed out in favor of ours.
yeah, we can win wars, but we have trouble setting up things afterwards
Islam is the third-largest religion in the United States (2.3%) after Christianity (67%) and Judaism (2.4%). The 2020 United States Religion Census estimates that there are about 4,453,908 Muslim Americans of all ages living in the United States in 2020, making up 1.34% of the total U.S. population. And the war begins.....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam_in_the_United_States
yes, I’m reminded of the counterintuitive predicament of whether it’s intolerant to not tolerate intolerance. This is the dilemma in which western civilization finds itself bound. The problem is that if you don’t tolerate intolerance you become yourself intolerant. But if you tolerate intolerance than the intolerant will destroy the tolerant. So to protect the tolerant it is required to be intolerant, becoming the monster you sought to defeat. And so around it goes in the perfectly vicious circle of human nature. The iranians, to secure liberty cannot tolerate the intolerance of the mullah’s and their followers must be brutally suppressed. The leadership will then be condemned for it.
We’ve seen this movie before. It always ends the same way.
“He who fights with monsters should see to it that he himself does not become a monster.”
Nietzsche - Beyond Good and Evil (1886)
BUMP
In the General/Chat forum, on a thread titled The aid that the President of the United States promised to the brave people of Iran has now arrived. This is a humanitarian intervention; and its target is the Islamic Republic....and its machinery of slaughter, Governor Dinwiddie wrote: Earlier this year, unfortunately, very unfortunately, President Trump prematurely declared
"help is on the way". Then at least 10,000 Persians were slaughtered by the Iranian Guards.Grok said your claim is also seen online and uses the causal framing to shift blame onto Trump for the regime’s atrocities. The AI also said this narrative has circulated heavily on X and in pro-regime or anti-Trump circles since mid-January 2026.
The people who could take over may have already been killed by the regime. So, who’s left?
We don’t have trouble. Our legacy is that we cut and run. The worst words a foreign people can hear are, “We are from the US and are here to help”.
Sounds like catch-22.
One of my neighbors escaped Iran after the fall. Her father was murdered because he would not convert to Islam, but her and her mother were able to escape. She is very good friends with my wife, which is where I got the story. She was invited to the white house last year to speak at a faith event.
Sounds like catch-22
IT IS a catch-22
When faced with two choices and both are bad, you can count on a democrat to choose the option that benefits our enemies.
I think the DC Swamp supported Ukraine to keep the DC Swamp to Ukraine money laundering op going.
Hunter Biden types in Ukraine wasn’t ever a sign that it was a sovereign nation.
It was a DC Swamp proxy.
And if we ever get to obliterate and drain the Swamp, proxies like Ukraine will be free from the DC Swamp, like Iranian people will be free from their tyrants and any of our Swamp scum propping them up.
Better late than never I suppose...
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