Iranian Shah-supporters: TRUTH

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There's new information being uncovered all the time about the last Shah and his family and descendants

Here is a picture of the rarely seen Farahnaz, sister of Reza Pahlavi, son of the last Shah, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi

One can see how goofy a bunch of people the Iranian monarchists are

Stories are circulating, however, that now some monarchists are shouting "Death to America !" because they are SO FURIOUS that the US president has tacitly allowed the Islamic Republic of Iran to stay in power.



I think this refers to Noor Pahlavi, eldest daughter of Reza and Yasmine Pahlavi, born 1992.
"Nozhrera Pahlavi: American citizen who doesn't speak Persian With no education whatsoever, but she's made herself a professor in the fields of partying, alcohol, and e! Just like her illiterate, freeloading mom and dad."

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Speaking of Pahlavis becoming American citizens, someone dug up records showing or seeming to show that Reza Pahlavi himself has become naturalized as one !

So what sense does that make to have an American national as a puppet to lead Iran ? Nobody there but a handful of opportunists would accept such a person as their leader.

What did Reza Pahlavi do to contribute the defense of Iran during the terrible war waged by Iraq at behest of Western powers, Saudi Arabia, Gulf states, etc. ? NOTHING.

The current leaders mostly fought at the front despite scorching temperatures. They earned by sacrifice and suffering the right to rule the country !

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Some observers term Farah Pahlavi as a patroness of the arts, as is mentioned in this post

But the truth is : she was a 21 year old art student in Paris at the time the Shah's scouts found her as a prospect for his 3rd wife. The 1st two had not produced children, so he put them aside.

However, the choice was an exceedingly POOR one.

She recounted herself that she was taken to meet the Shah in a somewhat awkward meeting. She wrote many years later that it was the fact that she didn't mind to pick up the quoits herself rather than let them sit on the ground for someone else to pick up - this lack of affectation won the Shah over about her.

It turned out, however, she was mostly hated during the Shah's reign by the Iranian people because she kept insensitively introducing odious modern art to a deeply conservative Iran which was repulsed by these tasteless displays !

Yet Farah didn't get the message and give up. She came to be seen as almost violently wrenching a traditional country and culture into a spinoff of an alien Western European and American society.

I have mercifully forgotten the details of the exhibitions and musical performances, but many were worse than risque. To the point of scandalous.

Farah also smoked cigarettes, which she admitted was due to her anxiety over the Shah's many liaisons.
I'll save that part for a future post !

So anyone who thinks Farah Pahlavi was an asset to the Shah's govt is deluding themselves. Hatred for her played a major part in mobilizing the people for the 1979 Islamic Revolution.

Later, living in Paris in exile, pictures of her show a masculine looking woman always in pants, never in a dress. She still keeps up with her interest in art - but ALWAYS modern art, often French.
Which shows her soul...

Thus when people romanticize the Shah's reign as a pinnacle of high culture, don't be fooled !

https://x.com/Kanthan2030/status/2058900525442334975