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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I believe he attended Texas Tech for a while.
Interesting. I felt as though I was reading an epic. Beware of Beowulf.
Well that cat is out of the bag. Wonder how long it will take the current regime to "Find" the elements in the military?
"Washington has a duty to overthrown the Mullah's and assist Iran back to the 21st century."
That's how a lot of Iranians feel, too. Can't blame them.
"If he could pull it off, it would offer a better solution than anything we could do"
That's for sure.
Not understanding that the reformers are no better because they want to preserve the regime, is, as Pahlavi said, not understood in Washington.
It's like thinking you can work with the "good" Nazis.
You're right. Think if we were freedom loving Iranians, living in America, knowing the actions of Carter's crowd resulted in enslavement of their people for the last 25 years.
With the nuclear and the oil supply threats the sooner the Mahdi mad thugs in Tehran are overthrown the better for non-jihadic Iranians, America, Israel, Iraq, Afghanistan and the entire world.
Reese AFB was a fighter training base, so the bio is correct. The price would've trained in T38s and T37s. Quite a few Iranians and lots of Saudis trained as fighter pilots at Reese, and at Webb AFB in Big Spring, back then.
He kept a low profile, but was very polite and softspoken to the point of shyness when seen in public. IIRC, he and his entourage had a very large house south of 19th between Quaker and the Loop. Word was he was a very generous (anonymous) donor to the Goodfellows Christmas campaign the year he was at Reese. He would have to be better than the whack job running Iran now.
The Hance-Bush race was the year after I graduated/moved, so I don't have any campaign memorabilia, darn it!
Now I'm homesick. Sweet dreams, y'all.
That is exactly what the Khomeni did. He sat in Paris and had press conferences and fomented unrest until his underlings did the dirty work for him. Then he "took over" Iran. Carter, the stupid POS, did nothing to assist or support the Shah, and in fact encouraged the whackjob Muslims squatting in Paris and protesting. The Shah's son at least has a grasp of constitutional monarchy, unlike the Islamonazis that are running Iran now.
Kinda like the socialist-communist-liberal-homosexual democrats plan to do here when they get into power again in D.C.
'swhat the Clintons had in mind.
Actually, I can see some value in having someone to serve as a national symbol and a restraint on the excesses of democracy. The US Presidency has generally served the former function, and the US Constitutional system used to serve the latter function, but most nations don't do quite so well when attempting to craft brand-new institutions.
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