Post by kriss on Jul 29, 2018 13:00:43 GMT -5
The Iranian crown prince's speech
Something is rotten in the land of Iran and maybe, just maybe, it is beginning to reach the point where people are wiling to sacrifice to replace theocray with secularism.
The Shah of Iran, Mahmad Reza Pahlevi, was deposed in 1979 and exiled to Egypt with his family where he died one year later. Upon reaching the age of twenty, the late Shah's son Reza Pahlevi II was crowned in his stead by those loyal to the monarchy, but the fact that the young prince was in exile robbed the move of any practical significance.
Reza II is now 58 years of age, sufficiently experienced, still comparatively young and with a long period of active life ahead of him. He is seen by many within Iran and outside of it as the natural heir to the ayatollah regime once it collapses - if he so desires.
True, a good many Iranians remember the cruel and dictatorial nature of the Shah's regime, but since the rule of the ayatollahs is infinitely worse, there are a good many Iranians pining over rose-colored memories of that former period. They see Reza as the only person capable of finding a common denominator that can convince most of the opposition to rally together and begin a rebellion to attempt, and hopefully succeed, in ridding the country of suffocating theocratic rule.
www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/22528
Something is rotten in the land of Iran and maybe, just maybe, it is beginning to reach the point where people are wiling to sacrifice to replace theocray with secularism.
The Shah of Iran, Mahmad Reza Pahlevi, was deposed in 1979 and exiled to Egypt with his family where he died one year later. Upon reaching the age of twenty, the late Shah's son Reza Pahlevi II was crowned in his stead by those loyal to the monarchy, but the fact that the young prince was in exile robbed the move of any practical significance.
Reza II is now 58 years of age, sufficiently experienced, still comparatively young and with a long period of active life ahead of him. He is seen by many within Iran and outside of it as the natural heir to the ayatollah regime once it collapses - if he so desires.
True, a good many Iranians remember the cruel and dictatorial nature of the Shah's regime, but since the rule of the ayatollahs is infinitely worse, there are a good many Iranians pining over rose-colored memories of that former period. They see Reza as the only person capable of finding a common denominator that can convince most of the opposition to rally together and begin a rebellion to attempt, and hopefully succeed, in ridding the country of suffocating theocratic rule.
www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/22528