by Scott Creighton
The son of the notorious Iranian dictator Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the Shah of Iran, is claiming on Israeli television (the IBA – Israeli Broadcasting Authority) not only that he knows he will return to power in Iran but that under his rule, the climate of aggression between Iran and Israel will be over. Seated next to the flag used by his father during his brutal 30 reign in Iran, Reza Pahlavi promised that he would return to a “prominant role” in Iranian affairs. “My moment for the return to my country will come, I assure you.” Shah-to-be
In a different interview from June 25th, Reza Pahlavi is asked about the revolution of 79, when his father was overthrown by a popular revolution… Reza’s responce? “Let’s focus on 2009!“. The LAST thing The Shah-to-be wants to do is talk about WHY his corrupt father was kicked out of the country.
I have written about the Shah’s son planning to return to power and about how his father’s flag is appearing more and more in these staged “demonstrations” here in the States. I would take a screen-shot of the IBA’s interview with the tyrant Shah’s flag sitting next to the man who claims he cries for the people of Iran, but the IBA’s system won’t allow screen-shots. So go check it out yourself. Or you can just check out Reza’s webpage header…
return to the good old days of the Shah
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Yep, that is the same flag. And he is airing from Israel…. a propped up puppet … … a set up dictator favored by the Zionists and global control…. watch out oil control, here comes Israel and the sneaky USA…….
can’t believe Iran is allowing this to happen.
SO,,,HE WANTS TO BE BUDDYS WITH THE ISRAELIS, HUH?
HE’S FUCKIN DREAMIN!
YEAH, HEAD ON BACK OVER THERE BIG FELLOW! THEY GOTTA ROPE THERE, AND A HANGMAN, JUST WAITTIN FER YA.
HE’S FUCKIN DELUSIONAL ! JUST WHAT THEY NEED,,,,THE SON OF SHAW, OF IRAN.
Certainly, the imperialists are up to their usual dirty tricks, although the White House has been at pains to give the appearance of standing aside. There’s a division of labor. The capitalist media, liberal and conservative alike, have mounted a non-stop propaganda blitz for Mousavi, painting him as a “democrat” and “moderate” as opposed to the dictator and Holocaust denier Ahmadinejad. Under pressure from the Republicans, the U.S. Congress passed a virtually unanimous resolution condemning the repression in Iran. For his part, Democratic president Barack Obama declared, “It’s not productive, given the history of the US-Iranian relationship, to be seen as meddling,” (Los Angeles Times, 17 June). But the key words here are “to be seen as.”
Barely a week earlier, Obama gave a major speech in Cairo, Egypt to declare that “America is not at war with Islam,” even as he continues the U.S.’ occupation of Iraq, escalates the U.S. war on Afghanistan and increases U.S. military strikes in Pakistan. He referred politely to the Islamic Republic of Iran, whereas Bush placed it on the “axis of evil”; conceded Iran had a right to “peaceful nuclear power”; came out in support of women wearing the Islamic hijab (headscarf), even as many Iranian women are chafing at the enforced Islamic dress code; and said that the U.S. would not “presume to pick the outcome of a peaceful election” in Iran. Add it all up and this is a diplomatic appeal for a “moderate” government of an Islamic regime in Iran.
Obama’s talk of “history” was referring to the 1953 CIA-backed coup against the country’s nationalist Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadeq, who had begun to nationalize Iran’s oil industry. (But at that time, the mullahs were used as CIA “assets” against Mossadeq.) The present regime in Washington engages in the same kind of skullduggery, just tries to hide it. The Democratic majority in Congress not only funded the occupation of Iraq, but in 2007 also agreed to Bush’s request for $400 million for a major escalation of covert operations against Iran. This gave the CIA a blank check to organize hit-and-run attacks on Iran. In the case of Jundullah, the Baluchi guerrillas in eastern Iran subsidized by the CIA, these are vicious Sunni Muslim reactionaries (who under other circumstances would simply be branded “al Qaeda”) who are opposed to Tehran merely because the latter represents the Shiite variant of Islam.
So while there is plenty of evidence that U.S. imperialism is still in the subversion and “destabilization” business in Iran, and certainly lots more that is not public, it is not staking everything on overthrowing Ahmadinejad/Khamenei. Washington is prepared to do business with the mullah regime, as it has in the past. Remember the Iran/contra deal, supervised by John Poindexter, now head of the CIA, selling U.S. Hawk missiles to Iran to get funds for Reagan’s mercenaries in Nicaragua. Or the 2001 U.S. invasion of Taliban-ruled Afghanistan, carried out in close coordination with Tehran, the Pasdaran in particular. And don’t forget that pro-Iranian Shiites acted as front men for the 2003 U.S. occupation of Iraq to overthrow Iran’s nemesis, Saddam Hussein.
Moreover, as Obama told the press, on a host of issues concerning U.S. imperial interests, there is little to choose from between Ahmadinejad and Mousavi. On economics, the latter’s embrace of free market capitalism would perhaps allow more U.S. penetration, but Ahmadinejad is no less committed to privatization and foreign investment (see below). Under every prime minister and president, the mullah regime has always been a model pupil of the International Monetary Fund (the IMF praised Tehran for its divestment program in its May 2008 review). On foreign policy, while Mousavi attacked Ahmadinejad’s general clownishness and anti-Semitic remarks, the differences are mainly stylistic. In the end, both will talk turkey with the U.S.