A hookah pipe dream?
Posted on 05/01/2006 1:31:03 PM PDT by edpc
Reza Pahlavi, son of the late Shah of Iran, told the editors of HUMAN EVENTS last week that in the next two to three months he hopes to finalize the organization of a movement aimed at overthrowing the Islamic regime in Tehran and replacing it with a democratic government.
He believes the cause is urgent because of the prospect that Iran may soon develop a nuclear weapon or the U.S. may use military force to preempt that. He hopes to offer a way out of this dilemma: a revolution sparked by massive civil disobedience in which the masses in the streets are backed by elements of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard.
Pahlavi, who lives in exile in the United States, said he has been in contact with elements of the Revolutionary Guard that would be willing to play such a role, and activists who could help spark the civil disobedience.
He also said that the U.S. and other governments can help by imposing “smart sanctions” on the leaders of Iranian regime, but he categorically opposes U.S. military intervention.
After the revolution he envisions, Pahlavi said, he would be willing to become a constitutional monarch in Iran if an Iranian constitutional convention offered him that role. “I’m ready to serve in that capacity,” he said. “If the people so choose, it would be my greatest honor.”
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withing = within
If he could pull it off, it would offer a better solution than anything we could do. I just don't see how he can pull it off.
Lubbock-ping.
Is this the guy who lived in Lubbock for a while in the mid to late 70s when he was in flight training at Reese AFB? I was but a child then, so I'm not sure.
He'll be dead in less than a year. I'm surprised they've waited this long to assassinate him. Maybe they don't see him as a threat.
He needs to hurry and make this happen or we'll have no choice.
Willing to ? Sounds more like he's counting on it.
UGH. Not another Shah of Iran! The first one's actions (or complete lack thereof) are what led to the climate that allowed the nutcase fundie Islime to take over in the late 70s. I.E. Most Iranians had enough of the first "Shah" to not want another. This, according to my extremely scientific poll of my 2 Iranian friends.
A pipe dream.
LOL.......100% disapporval rating.
Ha - a child....... I was at Tech then and lived not far from his "compound"
I also volunteer myself to sit on the Peacock Throne. Living in a palace might be a tough way of life to get used to - but I'm sure I'll pull through.
A hookah pipe dream?
The Peacock Throne will be available once Katie vacates it for CBS.
BUMP
That regime was hanging by a thread in the 90s and after. I don't think the current leaders are all that popular, and the Persian people have been oppressed too long.
"My hope would be that the nations of the worlds could move away from shahs, kings, poobahs,...."
HEY! The Royal Order of Water Buffaloes would be Lost without the Grand Poobah!!
//agree with your assertion, btw!
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