[F14 Pilot]

Her Majesty Farah Pahlavi responds to NY Times article

[Spruce]

May Jimmy Carter rot in hell for the damage he has done to the entire world.

[dbostan]

Teheran was an exceptional city.
The Shah's services cleaned the streets with perfumed water every night.
Iran was as advanced as Lebanon before the IslamoFascists destroyed them both....

[UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide]

And if I hear anymore about Mossadegh and his communist thugs on the one hand and his islamic fundamentalist thugs on the other who had forced the legal head of state, the Shah, to flee in the first place being overthrown by the CIA, I'll puke. It was almost 1979 in 1953.

[Billthedrill]

It's hard now for people to picture the political environment in which the fall of the Shah took place. We were just out of Vietnam and the left was dancing all over the world about the inevitability of revolution. The Sovs were packing for Afghanistan. Pol Pot's holocaust was still being denied, and the Vietnamese army was packing for Cambodia. The entire weight of history looked to be coming down on the side of anyone attempting to disestablish the existing order, and yes, we can blame the French for playing kingmaker in offering Khomeini sanctuary and then unleashing him on Iran.

And so it was easy to paint the Shah as just another Establishment tyrant about to fall under the righteous Power of Da Pee-Pul, and so he was in the popular press just about everywhere. SAVAK didn't help him any either. The one thing people didn't figure - remember, this was the tail end of Peace And Love - the one thing nobody thought was that things could get worse. And one reason that religious fascists are still supported by the left is that they always were.

[backhoe]

Recalling the Shah of Iran-
various links | 8-18-02 | The Heavy Equipment Guy
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/735176/posts

[NY Attitude]

Ping

[dixiechick2000]

I'm very glad to see that she responded.
Thanks for the post and ping.

[F14 Pilot]

You were there in 1970s.

Please enlighten us on how Iran was under the Shah

[denydenydeny]

It's simply a disgrace to compare the Pahlavis to the monsters running Iran currently.

[F14 Pilot]

http://www.farahpahlavi.org/greco.html

http://www.iranvajahan.net/cgi-bin/news.pl?l=en&y=2004&m=12&d=12&a=5

[sauropod]

Wonder if this is the same Kal that "graces" the Blight for All editorial pages?

[Nowhere Man]

I remember when I was in 4th grade, 1976-77 it was. Every once in a while the class watched a program on PBS called "Big Blue Marble" where it shows the lives of children and teens in other countries around the world. Well, I remember one episode of an Iranian girl, 13 or 14, as she goes about her day to day life. She goes to school, I think 6 daysa week, IIRC. On her day off, "Big Blue Marble" shows her getting into jeans and a sweater (like many girls here then and even now) to get ready and hit the mall with her girlfriends. She seemed to have a house much like we do here in America, they lived pretty much like we do and so on. Shame how things changed. B-(