By Sadegh Pashm-Foroush The day after the announcement of the results of Iran’s sham presidential election, Iranian regime supreme leader Ali Khamenei summoned the remaining members of the government of former regime president Ebrahim Raisi, who died in a helicopter crash on May 19. In his remarks to them—indirectly addressing new regime president Massoud Pezeshkian—he warned him and reminded him of the “model” of the president in the regime. The supreme leader repeatedly mentioned Raisi and said, “He is truly a model; we must all learn from him.” He then reiterated the concept of “heartfelt belief and practical commitment” to the regime, which Pezeshkian, like all the election candidates, had committed to. Khamenei stated, “Dear Raisi demonstrated as a model that one can possess these mental, heartfelt, and practical qualities as the president of a country and follow them in practice.” Of course, before the sham election, Pezeshkian repeatedly stated that he would continue Raisi...
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Shah, the foundation of foreign domination and fascism in Iran!
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Shah represented two phenomena simultaneously in Iran:
· Fascist repression internally
· Foreign powers interests and domination
In 1878, Naser al-Din Shah Qajar, in order to maintain his monarchy, borrowed a ruthless brigade called the Cossack Brigade from the Russian army, and paid all their expenses from the government’s treasury, i.e. the pockets of the Iranian people.
Among the famous leaders of this force, we can mention the notorious Russian colonel Liakhov, who bombarded the first Iranian constitutional assembly, and later on Reza Khan the Ghazagh (Cossack) with help from dominant colonial powers staged a coup d’état and Reza Khan was installed as king. A king who, when his expiration date was over, his masters kicked him out of Iran in disgrace and appointed his son in his place. And in turn, when the expiration date of “son” was over, General Robert E.Huyser came and arranged for the Shah’s departure and handed the country to the mullahs.
The Monarchy’s affiliation, especially the last Shah’s, to the foreigner was clear to everyone, and especially to Mohammad Reza himself, that “orders” always come from “somewhere else”! And there is no such thing as Iran’s national army and independent national policy!
Later, Mohammad Reza Shah explained this bitter reality more clearly in his last book, “Answer to History”, p. 246, and with a quote from General Rabiei, the commander of his air force in the court of the Mullahs, he wrote: “General Rabiei said in the court of the Islamic Republic: “Huyser threw Mohammad Reza Shah out of Iran like a dead mouse”!
Mohammad Reza Shah explains in his book that the American military officials came and went in their own planes and were naturally not subject to the usual protocols.
But when it comes to the question of Shah’s affiliation, one should not consider the issue of his dependence like any country in diplomatic manner and consensus and not even one-sided alliance with a foreign power, the Shah hidden from the eyes of his people was an American citizen!
Only when shah died, Ardeshir Zahedi, who had a very close relationship with the mullahs, said: “Even though I have been by the king’s side for 25 years, I did not know until that moment that his Majesty’s American name and his name in his American passport was “David Newsom”. (Fars news agency, July 27, 2019)
Much can be said about the Shah’s dependence on America. His sister Ashraf said in her memoirs; “during the August 19, 1953, coup, Americans briefed her for carrying out a coup and sent her to Tehran with instructions for the Shah.”
The second characteristic of the monarchy in general and Mohammad Reza Shah in particular is repression.
Mohammad Reza Shah was overthrown by the people during the anti-monarchy revolution of 1997, since after the reactionary colonial coup d’etat on August 19, 1953, he was complete foreign puppet agent, and he did not enjoy and foresee any support for himself inside the country and among the masses of the people. He should have been constantly thinking of finding solutions to prevent the revolutionary uprisings of the people.
Repression in all fields was Shah’s general policy in his relationship with the people. Like his father, the Shah dissolved all parties and then plunged Iran into a one-party dictatorship. He turned radio and television into a private organ of the government and his court. He closed all the press and non-governmental media and imposed a huge censorship on the media in Iran. During Shah’s dictatorship, censorship was so widespread that when he lost his grip on dictatorial power on 1978, people published more than eleven million volumes of white-cover books (which was the nickname of banned books) in Iran until January 1979!
Shah only tolerated officials who were “kissing his hand” just like Khomeini.
The king, who should have been a mere ceremonial official, violated the independence of the three branches of government, which was one of the legal foundations of the constitutional system. From the legislature and parliament, he left only a worthless show shell with the presence of his agents. (Something like Mullahs’ parliament).
The executive branch was headed by a puppet prime minister who only executed Shah’s orders, just like what the Supreme Leader does with his president in the mullahs’ dictatorship.
He made an institution out of the judiciary that only issued rulings for the benefit of his court and the ruling class.
Shah declared all non-governmental organizations to be dissolved and illegal.
He closed all the women’s associations like his father and created a governmental women’s organization led by his sister Ashraf Pahlavi, which had nothing to do with Iranian women.
Like his father, Shah built the most horrific prisons in Iran and filled them with freedom-loving youth. If Qasr and Ghazel Ghalah were the gruesome souvenirs left by Reza Khan. Evin’s torture chamber, Qasr and Falakeh are some of the Shah’s relics. Torture is one of the bloodiest legacies of the Shah that was passed on to the mullahs.
Shah, like the mullahs, basically did not recognize any political opposition and tried to legitimize the killing of freedom-loving children of Iran by deploying words like saboteur, communist and Islamic Marxist.
Shah did not only censor, torture and execute, whenever necessary, just like Khomeini who massacred prisoners in 1988, Shah also killed a number of famous political prisoners in Evin hills in 1975.
Bahman Tehrani (Arash), torturer of Savak:
“9 people were: Bijan Jazani, Abbas Soraki, Mohammad Choupanzadeh, Aziz Sarmadi, Mashauf Kalantari, Hassan Zia Zarifi, Mustafa Javan Khoshdel, Kazem Zolanwar, and I think Ahmad Jalil Afshar (I don’t remember exactly). After the prisoners got out of the car (they were blindfolded and their hands were tied) they sat in a line on the ground… After that, by means of an Uzi machine gun brought by Jalil or Colonel Waziri, first either Attarpour or Colonel Waziri started shooting at the prisoners, and I was maybe the fourth or fifth person who fired a few shots with a machine gun, and they generally said that everyone should shoot, and at the end, Jalil shot each of them who were still alive. “.
And this is the story of a king who, while exercising great power towards the people, was so tame in front of his foreign master that with a hint from them, he boarded a plane with tears in his eyes and fled abroad with suitcases full of the wealth of people of Iran, while neither his affiliation foreign power nor suppression of Iranians did not save him.
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