This is Why the Late Shah Got sacked!

Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi of Iran gives statement on oil ownership at OPEC conference: Tehran; 25 January 1971

The statement at the start of video clip reads, "The vast world's oil empire is one the most inhumane governments that the world has seen throuought history. A government with no ethics or principles and no social or humane justice. Their exploitation and inhumanity and force is limitless and knows no bounds because these world eaters are detached from humanity, justness, equity, fairness and ethics."--Mohammad Reza Shah

Sarbazekouchak: "Buyers" of what they regard as theirs? The global mafia, of course, wanted none of that. They had for years regarded the Iranian King as a threat.* And so began a world-wide campaign of the vilification of the Shah, a campaign led by self-described “leftists” and “liberals”. Vilification is actually an understatement, for the Shah was turned into the Devil himself. That is why, while Chomsky’s friends were massacring hundreds of thousands in Cambodia, the Shah of Iran was singled out by Amnesty International as the “world’s number one violator of human rights.” I mention Cambodia only, because in Apartheid South Africa, Red China, Uganda, Zaire, Middle East and Latin America,… the governments there were singing of brotherly love, while others were preoccupied with dropping flowers on Vietnam.). The greatest crime of the "Liberal-Left" intellectuals in the past century was their vindictive campaign of lies, fabrications, and treachery against Mohammed Reza Shah Pahlavi; a campaign that will go down in history as the most vivid manifestation of a "double standard" aimed at demonizing an anti-Communist leader, while prolonging a deafening silence about the atrocities of leftist dictatorships.

Today, with the exception of those relegated to the marginalized swamps of the "liberal-left" dogma, any reputable observer would concede that virtually every aspect of Iranian life and society (education, health, arts, sports, infrastructure, banking, justice system, the military, women's rights, social and religious freedoms…) was breathtakingly modernized and "civilized" under the Shah. When it came to the participation of Iranian people in the political process, while the Shah's system of government was "authoritarian", Iran was far from being a brutal "totalitarian" state, examples of which were plenty under Communist and strict Islamic regimes. In the words of historian "George Lenczowski" -the author of “Iran Under the Pahlavis”- Iran under the Shah was not only "freer" than all of its neighboring Islamic and most other Middle Eastern countries, but also all the Communist "Utopias" to which the intellectual “Mafia” was comparing its government.
Did these "facts" ever interfere with the Leftist intellectuals’ "war" against the Shah? Did any of them ever offer a similar critique of “Castro’s Socialist Paradise”? To them, and to the Left in general, the Shah's regime was a tool of American influence in the region.

The poor Shah had envisioned refining the nation's own oil in 1971 and manufacturing related products whereas in 2007 the Islamic Republic has to import 40% of its oil and has to resort to brutal tactics to suppress rebellion against fuel rationing. No government has benefited from such a surge in oil revenues in the entire history of Iranian nation as the IRI has in recent years. Even the IRI's own economists are telling the murderous mullahs that they're wasting the unprecedented oil wealth. Where does the money end up you might ask? The oil revenues buy the mullahs Arab/islamists mercenary militias across the ME and wasted on propganda networks such as PRESSTV or AL-MANAR and manufacturing fake "dissidents", fraudlent Islamic women movemnt (Reformers women movement), front organizations and web of all extractions to manipulate and control the sheeple inside and outside of Iran.


And on the social justice and freedom front, the debate for freedom and liberty has been reduced to appropriate size of stones used in stoning men, women and children or the amount of blood money prescribed when a woman is killed by a man whereas before the pestillence of Khomeini, they would automatically go to jail instead of following the stupid sharia's Diyah doctrine.
Mike Wallace Interview with the late shah
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What King, What Traitor?

Nooshabeh Amiri:

When we were first year students, we knew little about 16 of Azar [December 7, Iran’s Student Day]. We also knew some general things about Iran’s past and the blood that had been shed, which was enough to motivate us to break a few windows, chant slogans and join others in their marches. My late professor’s famous poem was ingrained in each and every one of our minds: “if you stand up, if I stand up…”

The university cafeteria’s power suddenly went out and the windows began to shatter. It was a while before I mustered enough courage to throw a glass in the dark. Perhaps no one heard the sound of that glass breaking, except for the one who threw it: me. That was enough to make me afraid. I got up, ran in the dark, climbed the stairs, and suddenly: confrontation. I was standing in front of Dr. Aligholi Ardalan, the gray-haired dean of the university – and, of course, “one of the Shah’s tools,” (as we accused every official back then). In one second I imagined myself in prison, going through interrogation… but Dr. Ardalan gently said, “Please calm down, my dear. The officers are upstairs. They will know everything if they see you like this. Calm down. Go.”
I did not believe it. But there was something in Dr. Ardalan’s friendly and fatherly voice that calmed me down. As if mechanically, I asked, “Should I go?” He shook his head quietly and gently tapped me on the back. Many others left too on that day. Dr. Ardalan was standing on the university’s entrance steps, yelling at security officers, “Stay out of it, it’s over… It is 16 of Azar for God’s sake!”

The next morning I returned to the university. The rioting was over, all because of the wisdom of a man who understood youth and passion. Perhaps there were not many like Dr. Ardalan; because if there were, those small glass breakings would not have spread onto the streets and target the government.

I recalled this event to make a reference to what is going on today. Today, Ehsan Mansouri, Abbas Hakimzadeh, Ali Saberi, Babak Zamanian, Ahmad Ghassaban, Majid Tavakoli, Pouyan Mahmoudian, Meghdad Khalilpour, Majid Sheikhpour and many others of our students are behind bars and are being tortured.


Today, they drag Ehsan Mansouri out of his house and beat him so severely that the only thing they can then is to send him to the notorious Evin prison’s clinic Today, many mothers know what is being done to their children. Today’s university is run by people who only a little while ago were prepared to imprison any child of this land.

Let us ponder for a moment: there was a man like Ardalan in that system, but they still called the Shah “a traitor;” there were no *“starred” students but the Shah was still called “a traitor;” security officers did not sexually harass women in universities, but the Shah was still called “a traitor;” a para-military and security organization did not operate inside the universities under the guise of a student group, but the Shah was still called “a traitor.”

Tomorrow, what will they call those who do such things today?

And a final point. In tomorrow’s Keyhan newspaper its pro-regime editor Mr. Shariatmadari will probably write that “Rooz” is advocating for monarchy. The readers must be wise, especially when someone who is not yet a king acts like one. What really matters is for Ehsan and others to know that our eyes are wet with tears. We can’t sleep because of their pain. As for those who have made us suffer this pain and are able to sleep themselves – well, they have not heard the bad news yet.

This Video is dedicated to all Tehran Amir Kabir Polytechnic University active students in jail or still in university, who risk their lives on day to day basis against the violent dictatorship they live in.(Link via City Boy)

*Iran's "starred" students - politically active university students barred from continuing with their studies .

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