Posted on 03/28/2006 11:41:02 AM PST by TexasCajun
I dont doubt that Reza is against the destruction of Iran, but I am surprised to see he is against ANYthing it seems.
As for not being tainted, all it will take is one overt action with Ahmadinejad against the US to make people not care who gets credit.
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=49463
"The first person or group that "rides in" will have to spill so much Mullah blood that it will come back to bite them politically later on and the Monarchy cannot afford the taint."
I agree; that is what I tried to state in my first post. He want the US/Poland/England/Israel, maybe new Iraq shock troops to be the 1st wave.
He'll gather up the pieces.
And for the record, I blame Jimmah Carter for his betrayal of the Shah for this mess and the rise of OBL and his ilk.
What an idiot. Tried to lose WWIII (Cold War) and did his best to make us lose WWIV as a fall back position.
"Reza is a little prick who's lucky the US is protecting his ass from Iran 'justice'. "
Excuse me? Timmerman has been a friend of Reza Pahlavi.
And as for your slanderous "playboy" comment, I'd like you to back that accusation up. Reza has a beautiful wife and 3 children.
Bomb, bomb, bomb..bomb, bomb Iran. With big bunker busting, earth-shaking, devasting bombs. Tacticals if necessary.
Now I see. You read 1/2 a Timmerman book (and you must have been 1/2 asleep while reading) and think you have enough information to slander Reza Pahlavi?
The Pahlavi Monarchy is dead never to be revived again. The Mullahs will have to be taken down from within. Agree that Khomeini hijacked the Iranian Revolution. Carter is the one who should be held responsible for the downfall of the Shah. If the Shah had ignored Carter and Vance and used Savak without any restrictions, the mullahs and the other revolutionaries would have never gained power.
Well don't go rioting over it. And don't call for my beheading!
Just what is Reza doing besides trying to make himself look good in the media.
I think Reza has been in the US long enough to become a fat, happy American and only pays lip-service to the Iranian struggle for democracy!
Try reading before shooting your mouth off.
Do a simple search here under keyword Pahlavi and you'll find out that Reza Pahlavi is actively involved in trying to unify the opposition groups to overthrow the Iranian regime. nadan
Whom do you suggest among the "within" will be the leaders and energize a badly bashed up populace to rise against the Mullahs?
Specially in the neo-Iran structure of a mad cleric who invites apocalypse and Armageddon to invite the 12th Imam back as the Presidential spiritual leader, Mesbah Yazdi - who is likely to now become the Supreme Ruler - and has the revised military structure of Pasdaran (Revolutionary Guard) commanders in every executive position?
If we depend on the "within" we will be waiting for change to happen - but of a worse kind - when our grandchildren strive to survive in the devasted world with which the Neo-Iranists have cursed us.
While Islamists bicker with each other for ascendency within a global caliphate that has come to be like a cancer throughout the world structure.
I meant within Iran not world opinion. The person in charge will have to be "innocent" of the bloodshed, have "deniability" or then "remove" the "murderers" (possibly the MEK).
He cannot be seen as Genghis Khan the Mongol, even if he succeeds in removing the Mullahs. that was probably why you got the ANYthing part. Rhetoric.
Pretty much the same folks who took down the Shah, i.e., the students, bazaaries, leftists, nationalists, intellectuals, and other dissidents. The US should provide the requisite political support, overt and covert, to those within and without Iran who oppose the government. The mullahs know they are sitting on a powder keg.
If we depend on the "within" we will be waiting for change to happen - but of a worse kind - when our grandchildren strive to survive in the devasted world with which the Neo-Iranists have cursed us.
Neo-Iranists?? LOL. Ultimately, it will be up to the Iranians to take down the mullahs. We can't do it for them given the current circumstances in the country and our history with Iran, i.e., our involvement in the overthrow of Mossadeq. The end may be sooner than you think. The mullahs have been a disaster for the Iranian economy and their repressive measures have engendered hate and discontent. We used to say not too long ago that the Soviet Union would be around for our grandchildren.
Sorry TxCaj, I don't buy your buck-two-ninety-eight analysis of the Shah's son being a playboy and/or a prick.
Reza Pahlavi has the same love for his country as any exile would, as any Cuban-American that has ached to watch Fidel Castro rape, pillage and destroy their nation via Communism.
Read the interview, all of it in Human Events, Pahlavi comes across not as a "prick", but as a well educated, intelligent man with a good head on his shoulders. Of course he doesn't want a military strike on Iran, that's his damn home, no matter where he's been living over the past 27 years! If he thinks he has enough contacts inside Iran to stir up a revolution and flush those mullahs out of there, more power to him and the United States Government ought to be helping anyway possible, naturally below the radar and in the shadows.
I'm not even Iranian or of any Arab/Persian ancestry, but if Reza Pahlavi came knocking on my door asking for volunteers, I'd give it some serious thought.
In my estimation, he's one of the good guys and we should be backing him up. If it is possible to defuse this situation without turning Iran into a glassy parking lot, as much as I've advocated bombing the Shiite out of Iran, I'll be the first to say that I'm all for another way out of this mess.
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