Posted on 05/08/2009 11:29:52 PM PDT by FARS
ADDRESS GIVEN BY Reza Pahlavi of Iran
"Iran-US Relations At a New Cross Road" University of California – Irvine Wednesday, May 6th, 2009
Members of the faculty, students, distinguished guests, ladies and gentlemen:
I am very happy to be back at UCI today. It is a special privilege for me to have the opportunityof addressing you at this important crossroad in the relationship between our two countries, and the significance it has for the future of peace and stability in the Middle East.
Let me begin by saying that a good university where one can study in peace and freedom may seem common place to you. But not so for many thousands of students in my homeland whose eager young minds remain constrained and constantly shackled by a closed and dogmatic atmosphere that has been ruthlessly imposed on them by an unpopular dictatorship.
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The USA don’t owe the Islamic world a thing. If they want freedom let them spill their own blood.
No one expect US troops. However it would be handy to have support (financial, political, small arms) from the outside.
The Revolution 1979 wouldn’t have suceeded without Carter and Britain turning their support from the Shah to the Ayatollah and the KGB actively subverting Iran.
Hey SolidWood,
It is financially impossible to continue fighting the war on terror the way we are. Nation building with Muslims is no way worth the cost. While it is great to be killing terrorists abroad, nothing we do over there will matter unless political Islam is addressed here at home. Obviously our govt does not have the will do that.
Our confrontations are buying time short of having to turn Islamic countries into glass covered parking lots. If unoppsed, the Islamic maniacal demons will quickly acquire EMP weponry and destory our civilization. We are slowing that eventual confrontation. Perhaps civilized peoples world-wide are beginning to realize just how insane and demnoic Islam is and will eventually endorse crushing that devilish force. But I am not hopeful given the revelation from the 2008 election in the USofA.
Not quite.
1) Revolutions need to be armed. There was widespread gun ownership under the Shah. There is none today.
2) The Shah's security apparatus (SAVAK, police and army) were not even remotely as oppressive and reckless as the current network of secret police, million strong Baseej militia and Revolutionary Guards.
3) This was aggraveted by the refusal of the Carter Administration to sell riot gear, and crowd control weapons to the Shah.
4) There was never a general crackdown on the demonstrators. Lacking the gear to control crowds non-lethally, the army would have had to use lethal force. In the eyes of the Shah, this would have started a civil war, which would result in a Soviet Invasion (he predicted an "Iranistan", and indeed a year later the Soviets invaded Afghanistan, while the Soviet client Saddam was invading Iran). He knew that Carter would do sh*t.
Last, contrary to his image of a "iron fisted strongman", the persona of the Shah was averse to bloodshed. In his own words he was "a king, not a dictator. A dictator can kill his own people, a king can not."
The mullah regime however has no qualms about killing millions.
5) An essential part of the Revolution were Communists and Islamic Marxists financed and supported by the Soviet Union. Communist terrorists were for a decade waging guerilla attacks against Iranian and American forces. If we want to be serious about bringing down the mullahs, we need to prep some anti-mullah guerillas.
6) Before the hostage taking, the Carter Administration thought that Khomeini would maintain cooperation with the US. They thought the Shah to be an expendable madman, while Khomeini was portrayed as a Ghandi-like "wise man". Carter, Brzesinky and Ramsey Clark are all complicit in bringing to power Khomeini.
The full complicity of the Carter administration in the Revolution won't be known for at least another 20 years, when some interesting documents will be eventually released.
7) The Western MSM, especially BBC, where openly siding with Khomeini and the Revolutionaries. They carried their water all the way into the abyss. For example when supposedly "millions" of Iranians took to the streets, a massive pro-Shah counter-demonstration was ignored by the MSM.
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If all these factors would apply today, the mullahs would have been gone since the early 1990's.
We've got to hand it to the Western left, the Soviets and the islamists that they can get an act (historical tragedy) together.
The world is slowly waking up to what Islam really is. I just do not know if it too late. If Europe does not end their immigration soon they are done. Then the balance goes against us greatly.
We’ve got to hand it to the Western left, the Soviets and the islamists that they can get an act (historical tragedy) together.
Meanwhile the rest of the West cannot even agree if there is a threat or not. They see the weakness are quickly advancing.
The sheep are more interested in Obama’s dog than in the fact that he is selling us out to the enemy.
Lol! In your opinion what is the end game here? Leftists are clearly using Islamists to take down Western civilization as we know it. What happens when the Islamists get too strong and want it all? Will the leftists just cave to Islamic rule or look to wipe out the Muslims?
I fear the US-Hussein Obama- has chosen/changed sides and Israel has lost its main ally. If Israel puts off dealing with Iran much longer, its air force will have to go through the American forces in the region to get to Iran. Perhaps that is already the case. There is a question whether we will just shoot down the Israeli A/C or we destroy the airfields, too.
Then the whole destroying Western civilization on their behalf was pretty pointless if they do not end up in power.
I guess that they really are self loathing.
You think Obama would go as far as shooting at Israeli planes? Dunno.
I guess he would rather have the Syrians or Iraqis do it. “Protecting their airspace”... gives plausible deniability.
Just look at Britain or Netherlands. The left is more concerned about not offending the most radical islamists (on homosexuality or women rights i.e.) than about their own “ideals”.
Yes, I do think that. I suspect Netanyahu has already gotten the word. The next step is a US pushed UN occupation of the Golan then the West Bank and then Israel proper and enforcement of “right-of-return.” I don’t think that will come until after the 2012 re-election unless the Democrats expand their congressional margins next year. If they do then everything will speed up, perhaps explosively. I am also not one to think that 2010 will be any sort of repeat of 1994. ‘94 was largely based on 2nd amendment fears and I don’t think Hussein will do anything more to alarm that constituency before the midterms. And ACORN will be a huge factor in the midterms, the deciding factor in many races that wouldn’t otherwise be particularly close. ACORN will not be open to legal challenge any more because it has DoJ support and is essentially an arm of the Administration.
That says it all about them.
Have a good weekend!
Iran has spilled several million of their own people's blood because of him. Suffered innumerable tens of thousands of executions b because of the Idiot Carter, who was until now the worst USA president ever, so what O bama is doing (currently sending a high level delegation secretly to islamic iran), is irresponsible and exacerbating the damage Carter did to the whole world.
Note that not ONE Arab country invested a dime in response to oba-Hussein’s teams sent out to several to ask for money for our increasingly destroyed nation at the hands of this Oba-Hussein- Carter Khomeini WORST president usurper.
You want freedoms for yourself, ask for them for the Persians who are under the bloody feet of the Mullahs the USA imposed on them via Khomeini.
You sound rather young or were not around to know the history behind all this. No disrespect intended, just an observation based on your mindset.
cheers,
1.Why are you sending your response to me to everyone else? That seems pretty immature.
2.Here is an obsevation on my mindset. The USA cannot and is not responsible for rescuing the Islamic world. If they want freedoms let them stand up for the themsleves. Whether you believe me or not my step brother’s father is the 2nd cousing the Shah, so I have some insight.
My mindset it that I have been studying Islam for 6 years and facts show us that Islam cannot reform and “moderate” Islam is not coming to the rescue. Also nothing we do over there really matters if we continue to let Islam advance across the West.
The Shah refused to allow his generals permission to kill an estimated 5,000 people to snuff out the Khomeini revolution, saying (regret ably) that he would not retain his throne on the blood of his people,
the Mullahs executed tens of thousands at the very outset, so comparing their willingness to rain death on the people to retain power with a revolt against the while in his 25 plus years of rule did not execute 100 people is like comparing the Palestinian and other jihadist groups with our Western mindsets and actions.
For some 30 years, the Mullahs have killed and killed and killed to break the spirit of the populace and extinguish resistance and revolutionary fervor.
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