the future shah of iran
From the New York Times Magazine, an interview with Reza Pahlavi (eternal prince-in-waiting of the kingdom of Iran, or somesuch):
“But presumably you’re working with American agents in the C.I.A. or elsewhere who have been trying to destabilize the Iranian regime for years. “
“Your presumption is absolutely and unequivocally false.”“Do you feel bitter about not getting to be shah?”
“This is not a personal matter. This is not about me.”
I attended a lecture by Reza Pahlavi himself earlier this spring. To his credit, he very aptly analyzed American-Iranian relations and American-Mideast colonialism. But the audience of a few hundred Iranians both old and young called for him to assert himself as rightful ruler and adulated him with all sorts of titles and honorifics. It was pretty obvious that he was leader-in-exile of Iranian shah-supporters who left during the Revolution. He insisted that it wasn’t about him then, too. But when you were about to be freaking king of a whole country, could it ever not really be about you? I don’t think he could ever convince me that he wants only freedom and justice for his people and has completely forgotten his royal status, money, power, cars, and gaudy military uniforms.
Go royalists. More on why kingdoms are a good thing later.
shams said,
28 June 2009 at 1:37 pm
hi, yeah, sorry what was the last line?
who was your grandfather?
just kidding, but yeah what a fucking idiot. it’s not about him? why exactly does he care now? if it’s to make up for his father’s shit he’s been awfully quiet about that, that and why getting rid of mossadeq was a bad idea.
irrelevant turd.
write more i like reading, miboosamet (aboosak, sa7? 7aga kidda, mosh 3aref eh exactly.. fuck this lahja shamiya is like a cancer tho, i’m losing my egyptian slowly)
John said,
29 June 2009 at 1:23 am
They aren’t his people to begin with. Nor were they his father’s, or his father’s father’s. That is the root of the problem. It turns out that they are also not “children” of the revolution either. Oh well.