Posted on 01/08/2016 4:19:20 PM PST by Olog-hai
Iranian Princess Ashraf Pahlavi, the twin sister of the country's deposed shah whose glamorous life epitomized the excesses of her brother's rule, has died after decades in exile. She was 96. [...]
Reza Pahlavi, a son of the shah, announced his aunt's death in a Facebook post on Thursday night. Her personal website said she died Thursday, without elaborating.
Robert F. Armao, a longtime adviser to Princess Ashraf in New York, said the princess died in Europe on Thursday, declining to elaborate on the cause of her death. He said there were no immediate plans for a funeral. ...
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I thought she lived in nyc.
Any eurotrash country would have gleefully returned her to Iran to face trial to get some favor from the ayatollahs
Always good to hear about Reza, he was in my accounting class in college, we were all in our sneakers and blue jeans the first day and this guy walks in with two giant body guards, and he was dressed in a suit and tie, the girls swooned. That was his only day in class until finals, I assume he was getting special treatment as far as attendance goes.
Like the Iranian people's life is so much better now. Nice little cheap shot in the obituary. Keep it classy, AP.
The Pahlavi family's ideal of Westernizing Iran culturally and economically while suppressing Communism and reforming radical fundamentalist religious sects would have brought an ancient trading civilization into the modern civilized world while preserving the ancient history and artifacts.
A refinement of civilization defeated by cooperation between American Socialist DemoRats, atheist Soviet Communist scum and British Communists.
Bump.
Well-stated. BUMP!
Gee, at 96, I think I have a pretty good idea........Old Age!
Indeed. Same bunch that paint the socialist Mosaddegh as “democratically elected” (they still use the same phrase when referring to Morsi, to this day); in fact Mosaddegh was appointed, and moved swiftly to impose Islamic socialism.
Back in the early 1980s, I worked with young Persian college kids, who got ‘stranded’ here.
They mourned the beautiful country that they had seen beginning to bloom in Iran.
-JT
RIP.
My boss was flying threw Tehran about a week before the Shah fell - he said there were families with 20 people at the airport with luggage, fur coats, and eating caviar by the bucket full.
Not sure of your point, but the kids I knew were not ‘caviar eaters’.
-JT
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