This "documentary" should really be titled: " How to fool a nation and exploit it for 30 years". And this former ambassador is talking out of his arse. If the people "weren't ready to be modernized" as he claims, why were the maids, truck drivers, construction workers, or any lower middle class family in Iran sacrificing and sending their kids abroad? It wasn't the Iranian people who weren't ready to be modernized,but the very traditional british who turned ultimately to THEIR religous leaders.
The Bilderberg Group decided in the late 1970s to remove the Shah from power once and for all, because London and Washington were tired of his excessively nationalistic ways. He refused British Petroleum their request for another 25 year exclusive contract, which sealed his fate. Odd that the BBC should be attempting to paint the history of the Shah, considering the abject treachery of the Brits in all things Iranian for centuries...
I think it may have seemed like he was trying to turn Iranians into Americans or Europeans, but I beg to differ. He wanted to bring Iran to the same ranks as those developed nations because he did not view Iran as being anything less. He may have brought western things to Iran, but only as a tool to finally get Iranian people to the point where they can take pride in their own country and their own culture without depending on foreignors!!! I believe this was shah's vision!
Sadly this vision would have come to fruition in full had this revolution not occurred, however now, the new generation of Iranians in Iran are looking to leave Iran for a better life whereas the shah sent Iranians abroad to bring back their education to serve Iran.....alas alas how the world cannot stand to see an independent happy, peaceful self-sustained Iran.
Indeed, all that has been created since the passing of the shah is not to the credit of the Islamic Republic as some would like to have it, a lot of them were unfinished projects that were finally attended to some time after the Iran-Iraq war.
"He reached a level of wisdom that he was flying over the pitiless of lives" hahahahahaha.
The guy stole all the country's money, people's money, when he was escaping. He was a drunkard, as this film shows (3:10), even at the age of 60, even though he had cancer. What Farah said was one of the funniest jokes I have ever heard.
I've always felt very sad for such a tragic end of the Shah. Now, many of those who opposed him must be kicking themselves - the Americans, the British and most of all those in Iran who are now suffering under the theocracy. In a way, this is an I-told-you-so scenario for the Shah. May his soul rest in peace.
Once a cleric who's video I saw here on youtube said something that I learned later that he was being taken into custody for some times as a result of it! He quote this from prophet Muhammad.
If a government becomes infidel still it will survive but if it becomes tyrant, it will fall.
Anyone in the right mind shall not doubt that Islamic Republic is also not an exemption.
To intelligentpersian: You name is contradiction in terms with what you are. Ab Lincoln said: "Better be silent and assumed to be a fool than to speak and remove all doubts"! You (intelligentpersian) have proven to be the mother of all fools.
Obviously because Farah is an uneducated, unsophisticated and out of touch person, so it predictable that hear just bunch of useless trash from her, but it is unbelievable that after almost 30 years of living in U.S., still she can't perfectly speak English, has terrible and very funny accent, and lots of grammatical errors. Just another useless Pahlavi.
You Shah Worshipers problem is that you people enjoy fooling yourselves. No matter how much ugly language you use, that would not change the fact that Shah and his last wife ware uneducated and have had no academic education. With exception of one Pahlavi, none of them has (Shah himself, his wives and his brothers and sisters) has had any academic education. This is a fact.
it means they probably couldn't read or right either and have zero literacy in anything?
Farah went to france to study agriculture she brought back all of ancient Iran's art back to Iran and built a museum that is now worth millions!!!! and you pick on the fact that she had 2 grammar mistakes????
hah! shah and Farah spoke English and french beautifully and sadly too many idiots couldn't appreciate their vision.
excuse me i meant to say architecture...she studied archtiecture in france and that is where the shah discovered how immensely talented she was amongst the many beautiful educated women he could have possibly married then. She was extraordinary. Sit there and hate on the pahlavi family and amount to nothing yourself.
Farah study architecture only for one year and then returned to Iran and married with Shah Khaen. Would that makes him educated and an expert in architecture? You Shah Worshipers is you love to fool yourselves. You make sure that because Shah himself didn't had academic education, he never would marry with one educated one. As I said before, with exception of one of his brothers, nne of Pahlavies have had higher education. This is a fact.
@intelligentpersian : mossadeq ol saltane the aristocrat from qajar dynasty hated Shah bu the was for qajars. he and his family owned more than 800 villages, his uncle farmanfarma is one who brought free-masons to Iran, u should know these before u pick on Farah Pahlavi
have you heard Reza Pahlavi II speech about Dr. Mossadegh that even he kissing Mossadegh's back calling him the most honorable Iranian? So, you please shut up and don't open your disgusting mouth to talk about that great man.
@intelligentpersian : he can say whatever he wants, it doesn't chnage the fact that mossadeg ol saltane was an aristocrat from qajar dynasty and he almost made Iran part of old soviet.
lolll get a life. education is not all in degrees and phds, he had the education he needed to communicate with foreign powers, to improve the country.furthermore you are comparing 2 different time periods education then was not all for receiving degrees from this university or that university, education was geared towards a specific purpose and he had what he needed.
sit there and bemoan how mosadegh was overthrown and how no one could care less, but what the shah left in Iran many many still have great respect and reverence for. Well if he had no problem with her and wanted to make her the queen, with one year of education in architecture, what is your problem can you get someone better than her? How many Iranian women can be like her. She is an emblem of perfection during her reign as queen. Can you get someone like her or Soraya, I think not.
well it makes more sense to be a shah worshipper than a mosadegh worshipper who simply took advantage of the Iranian people's idiocy and lack of understanding. MOsadegh may have failed because the foreign powers didn't want thim to win but khomeni won because shah had then given foreign powers the cold shoulde.r.
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AsemanBiEnteha27,
Worse problem of you Shah Worshipers is you love to fool yourselves. It is really an illness.
You previously and idiotically accused me to being a Khomeini Lover, now saying that I am a Dr. Mossadegh worshipper. I do admire him, but I am not his worshipper. Unlike Shah Khaen, he did not allow that his admirers become his worshippers, but Shah allowed that his ass-kissers like you become his worshippers. Shah was going to bed with USA since 1953 and that is a cold shoulder?
im an iranian and obviously i should not say that but...
shah tried his best to help the iranians and trun iran to a modern country and make the iranians be PROUD of their nation but the iranians just did not DESERVE it!
Talk about yoursel and not Iraniansin general. It may you Pahlavi ass kissers have no dignity and willing to still kiss Shah's filthy ass, but real Iranians deserve much more than and better than bloodsuckers like Shah or Khomeini.
Still iranian like you haven't understand what kind of a great man he was. I am truly sorry for you all. Iran will never be free as long we got numnuts like you..
Rahe ma Rahe Aryamehr ast... Long live a Imperial National socialist iran
First, uneducated idiot, Iranian is correct and not iranian. Second, you should prove that Shah was a man, and then claim he was a great man. Men, if really are men and believe on something, they stay and fight to last bullet and last drop of bloods in their body and not put their tells between their legs and run away, as ARYAZMEHR did. I know, RAHE SHOMA, RAHE ARYAZMEHRE, and exactly like his, will end up down the toilet of history.
Your mouth is very filthy cocksucker, let me see you In real life i would fuck your sister on your dead mothers grave while your cripplet father is watching. Fucking cocksucker GO and fuck your commi cunt friends
You very well demonstrated a typical Pahlavi Back Kisser's social manners, family values, and what kind of trashy family they have been grown up. I am not going to respond to a trashy "late chaleh meidani" like you or any other typical trashy Pahlavi lovers. Responding to a typical trashy Pahlavi Back Kissers is beyond dignity of every classy freedom loving Iranian, so mine. You proved my point that what kind of trashy idiots you Pahlavi Lovers are. I rest my case.
Go fuck your self dont try to be a fucking diplomat cockface here. The only point you proved are that your family values dont mather.. You forget about honor and stuff like that.. How can you evan call your self persian when you take a step away from our traditions and history? Your ansestors would spit on you right now
I am not going to respond to a trash like you that stupid enough to picked the most disgusted, hated and disrespected name in the history of mankind (SAVAKI) as hus YouTube name. Javabe ablahan khamoshist. I do notexpect anything else from some one like you taht born in second street of former Shahreno, and his mother and sisters performed the oldest business in the world there, untill khomeini closed it out, and then they became ABJI ZAINABS in mullahs government.
Haha how come you know so much about this? Do you talk about your own family or something? yeeah khomeini closed it down and opened the whole country Iran as a Whore House but i supose u like that more.. Im glad what savak did with fucking cocksuckers like your familys cuz if they dident you would be much more. I wish our King could only approve it so all of you cocksuckers could be wiped out..
Dont talk filth about your own family we all know that you are from ghomrock bacheye shahreno.. The word nanejende started with your mom så fuck of you fucking twaatt
I am now under the impression that you and intelligent persian are one and the same savakiii....you are deliberately having this imagined correspondence here to defame all those who respect the shah and what he did for his country. For those of use who know better and are not stupid, we can see through what you are doing here.
You have indicated that you are under impression that Savakiii and I are the same. This indicates what kind of idiots are you Shah Worshipers. You idiot just click on Savakiii name and see all of his disgusting Shah Worshiping videos and click on my name and see all of my anti Shah and anti Khomeini videos. No idiot, Savakiii is a trashy Shah Lover like you, but I am someone to oppose all dictators like Shah and Khomeini. Got it?
if you are a true supporter of the shah, please don't talk like that no matter how inhuman these people are. We need an Iran made of kind, loving, forgiving people. Even the idiots that joined this revolution are now regretful. Most of their children are drug addicated or jobless.
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The Shah fell because he was incompetent.
daltonagre 3 months ago
This was a really boring documentary and very misinforming.. I cannot even begin to explain how low class the makers of this documentary are. Jesus
shookalook 1 year ago 2
This "documentary" should really be titled: " How to fool a nation and exploit it for 30 years". And this former ambassador is talking out of his arse. If the people "weren't ready to be modernized" as he claims, why were the maids, truck drivers, construction workers, or any lower middle class family in Iran sacrificing and sending their kids abroad? It wasn't the Iranian people who weren't ready to be modernized,but the very traditional british who turned ultimately to THEIR religous leaders.
aria6191 1 year ago
The Bilderberg Group decided in the late 1970s to remove the Shah from power once and for all, because London and Washington were tired of his excessively nationalistic ways. He refused British Petroleum their request for another 25 year exclusive contract, which sealed his fate. Odd that the BBC should be attempting to paint the history of the Shah, considering the abject treachery of the Brits in all things Iranian for centuries...
RevoltAgainstLies 2 years ago 7
BTW this documentary is BS propaganda from the BBC-
BBC was very well known for twisting all types of info.
zelalez 2 years ago 3
I think it may have seemed like he was trying to turn Iranians into Americans or Europeans, but I beg to differ. He wanted to bring Iran to the same ranks as those developed nations because he did not view Iran as being anything less. He may have brought western things to Iran, but only as a tool to finally get Iranian people to the point where they can take pride in their own country and their own culture without depending on foreignors!!! I believe this was shah's vision!
AsemanBiEnteha27 3 years ago
Sadly this vision would have come to fruition in full had this revolution not occurred, however now, the new generation of Iranians in Iran are looking to leave Iran for a better life whereas the shah sent Iranians abroad to bring back their education to serve Iran.....alas alas how the world cannot stand to see an independent happy, peaceful self-sustained Iran.
AsemanBiEnteha27 3 years ago
beautifully said Sir Anthony: "He lost the race, but an aweful lot of what he created is bound to survive."
AsemanBiEnteha27 3 years ago
Indeed, all that has been created since the passing of the shah is not to the credit of the Islamic Republic as some would like to have it, a lot of them were unfinished projects that were finally attended to some time after the Iran-Iraq war.
AsemanBiEnteha27 3 years ago
"He reached a level of wisdom that he was flying over the pitiless of lives" hahahahahaha.
The guy stole all the country's money, people's money, when he was escaping. He was a drunkard, as this film shows (3:10), even at the age of 60, even though he had cancer. What Farah said was one of the funniest jokes I have ever heard.
alireza1989 3 years ago
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we kicked the whole family out of country for good
akbar1515 3 years ago
yes and look at 70% of iran's population now because of what you did...all 30 and younger....mostly drug addicted and jobless....nice work!!!
non hemaghateton ro nosh jon konin
AsemanBiEnteha27 3 years ago
I've always felt very sad for such a tragic end of the Shah. Now, many of those who opposed him must be kicking themselves - the Americans, the British and most of all those in Iran who are now suffering under the theocracy. In a way, this is an I-told-you-so scenario for the Shah. May his soul rest in peace.
nimitzclass 3 years ago 9
yes and most of those people's children in Iran are now drug addicted and jobless.
AsemanBiEnteha27 3 years ago
@nimitzclass same people but in fewer numbers suffered when the shah overwhelmed mossadeq...
hirre 1 year ago
Once a cleric who's video I saw here on youtube said something that I learned later that he was being taken into custody for some times as a result of it! He quote this from prophet Muhammad.
If a government becomes infidel still it will survive but if it becomes tyrant, it will fall.
Anyone in the right mind shall not doubt that Islamic Republic is also not an exemption.
Tubamir 3 years ago
Sorry,But is this the Dumbest argument ever?!
Lideone 3 years ago
To intelligentpersian: You name is contradiction in terms with what you are. Ab Lincoln said: "Better be silent and assumed to be a fool than to speak and remove all doubts"! You (intelligentpersian) have proven to be the mother of all fools.
ComeonMan123abc 3 years ago
Obviously because Farah is an uneducated, unsophisticated and out of touch person, so it predictable that hear just bunch of useless trash from her, but it is unbelievable that after almost 30 years of living in U.S., still she can't perfectly speak English, has terrible and very funny accent, and lots of grammatical errors. Just another useless Pahlavi.
intelligentpersian 3 years ago
you are a waste of a human life altogether.
who are you to talk about other people?
AsemanBiEnteha27 3 years ago
AsemanBiEnteha27,
You Shah Worshipers problem is that you people enjoy fooling yourselves. No matter how much ugly language you use, that would not change the fact that Shah and his last wife ware uneducated and have had no academic education. With exception of one Pahlavi, none of them has (Shah himself, his wives and his brothers and sisters) has had any academic education. This is a fact.
intelligentpersian 3 years ago
lollll no academic education at all????
you know what the means you moron?
it means they probably couldn't read or right either and have zero literacy in anything?
Farah went to france to study agriculture she brought back all of ancient Iran's art back to Iran and built a museum that is now worth millions!!!! and you pick on the fact that she had 2 grammar mistakes????
hah! shah and Farah spoke English and french beautifully and sadly too many idiots couldn't appreciate their vision.
AsemanBiEnteha27 3 years ago
excuse me i meant to say architecture...she studied archtiecture in france and that is where the shah discovered how immensely talented she was amongst the many beautiful educated women he could have possibly married then. She was extraordinary. Sit there and hate on the pahlavi family and amount to nothing yourself.
AsemanBiEnteha27 3 years ago
AsemanBiEnteha27
Farah study architecture only for one year and then returned to Iran and married with Shah Khaen. Would that makes him educated and an expert in architecture? You Shah Worshipers is you love to fool yourselves. You make sure that because Shah himself didn't had academic education, he never would marry with one educated one. As I said before, with exception of one of his brothers, nne of Pahlavies have had higher education. This is a fact.
intelligentpersian 3 years ago
@intelligentpersian : mossadeq ol saltane the aristocrat from qajar dynasty hated Shah bu the was for qajars. he and his family owned more than 800 villages, his uncle farmanfarma is one who brought free-masons to Iran, u should know these before u pick on Farah Pahlavi
sandelf 1 year ago
@sandelf
have you heard Reza Pahlavi II speech about Dr. Mossadegh that even he kissing Mossadegh's back calling him the most honorable Iranian? So, you please shut up and don't open your disgusting mouth to talk about that great man.
intelligentpersian 8 months ago
@intelligentpersian : he can say whatever he wants, it doesn't chnage the fact that mossadeg ol saltane was an aristocrat from qajar dynasty and he almost made Iran part of old soviet.
sandelf 2 months ago
AsemanBiEnteha27
No dummy, that means they did not have universitey education. Shah himself even could not complete his high school education in Swiss.
intelligentpersian 3 years ago
lolll get a life. education is not all in degrees and phds, he had the education he needed to communicate with foreign powers, to improve the country.furthermore you are comparing 2 different time periods education then was not all for receiving degrees from this university or that university, education was geared towards a specific purpose and he had what he needed.
AsemanBiEnteha27 3 years ago
sit there and bemoan how mosadegh was overthrown and how no one could care less, but what the shah left in Iran many many still have great respect and reverence for. Well if he had no problem with her and wanted to make her the queen, with one year of education in architecture, what is your problem can you get someone better than her? How many Iranian women can be like her. She is an emblem of perfection during her reign as queen. Can you get someone like her or Soraya, I think not.
AsemanBiEnteha27 3 years ago 3
well it makes more sense to be a shah worshipper than a mosadegh worshipper who simply took advantage of the Iranian people's idiocy and lack of understanding. MOsadegh may have failed because the foreign powers didn't want thim to win but khomeni won because shah had then given foreign powers the cold shoulde.r.
AsemanBiEnteha27 3 years ago
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AsemanBiEnteha27,
Worse problem of you Shah Worshipers is you love to fool yourselves. It is really an illness.
You previously and idiotically accused me to being a Khomeini Lover, now saying that I am a Dr. Mossadegh worshipper. I do admire him, but I am not his worshipper. Unlike Shah Khaen, he did not allow that his admirers become his worshippers, but Shah allowed that his ass-kissers like you become his worshippers. Shah was going to bed with USA since 1953 and that is a cold shoulder?
intelligentpersian 3 years ago
mohammed reza did not like USA. he admired NAZI germany, this is a well known fact
MaChineseJihadis 3 years ago
MaChineseJihadis when & how did Mohamad Reza Shah show any admiration to Nazi Germany???? plz prove that statement of yours.
zelalez 2 years ago
LOL u got owned :P
TheguardianofIran 2 years ago
first of all thank you for sending this video
im an iranian and obviously i should not say that but...
shah tried his best to help the iranians and trun iran to a modern country and make the iranians be PROUD of their nation but the iranians just did not DESERVE it!
that's all that can be concluded
nahalaliyah 4 years ago
nahalaliyah,
Talk about yoursel and not Iraniansin general. It may you Pahlavi ass kissers have no dignity and willing to still kiss Shah's filthy ass, but real Iranians deserve much more than and better than bloodsuckers like Shah or Khomeini.
Efshagar11 4 years ago
Still iranian like you haven't understand what kind of a great man he was. I am truly sorry for you all. Iran will never be free as long we got numnuts like you..
Rahe ma Rahe Aryamehr ast... Long live a Imperial National socialist iran
savakiii 3 years ago
savakiii,
First, uneducated idiot, Iranian is correct and not iranian. Second, you should prove that Shah was a man, and then claim he was a great man. Men, if really are men and believe on something, they stay and fight to last bullet and last drop of bloods in their body and not put their tells between their legs and run away, as ARYAZMEHR did. I know, RAHE SHOMA, RAHE ARYAZMEHRE, and exactly like his, will end up down the toilet of history.
intelligentpersian 3 years ago
Your mouth is very filthy cocksucker, let me see you In real life i would fuck your sister on your dead mothers grave while your cripplet father is watching. Fucking cocksucker GO and fuck your commi cunt friends
savakiii 3 years ago
savakiii,
You very well demonstrated a typical Pahlavi Back Kisser's social manners, family values, and what kind of trashy family they have been grown up. I am not going to respond to a trashy "late chaleh meidani" like you or any other typical trashy Pahlavi lovers. Responding to a typical trashy Pahlavi Back Kissers is beyond dignity of every classy freedom loving Iranian, so mine. You proved my point that what kind of trashy idiots you Pahlavi Lovers are. I rest my case.
intelligentpersian 3 years ago
Go fuck your self dont try to be a fucking diplomat cockface here. The only point you proved are that your family values dont mather.. You forget about honor and stuff like that.. How can you evan call your self persian when you take a step away from our traditions and history? Your ansestors would spit on you right now
savakiii 3 years ago
Savakii:
I am not going to respond to a trash like you that stupid enough to picked the most disgusted, hated and disrespected name in the history of mankind (SAVAKI) as hus YouTube name. Javabe ablahan khamoshist. I do notexpect anything else from some one like you taht born in second street of former Shahreno, and his mother and sisters performed the oldest business in the world there, untill khomeini closed it out, and then they became ABJI ZAINABS in mullahs government.
intelligentpersian 3 years ago
Haha how come you know so much about this? Do you talk about your own family or something? yeeah khomeini closed it down and opened the whole country Iran as a Whore House but i supose u like that more.. Im glad what savak did with fucking cocksuckers like your familys cuz if they dident you would be much more. I wish our King could only approve it so all of you cocksuckers could be wiped out..
savakiii 3 years ago
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intelligentpersian 3 years ago
Dont talk filth about your own family we all know that you are from ghomrock bacheye shahreno.. The word nanejende started with your mom så fuck of you fucking twaatt
savakiii 3 years ago
fuck the shah
akbar1515 3 years ago
I am now under the impression that you and intelligent persian are one and the same savakiii....you are deliberately having this imagined correspondence here to defame all those who respect the shah and what he did for his country. For those of use who know better and are not stupid, we can see through what you are doing here.
AsemanBiEnteha27 3 years ago
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intelligentpersian 3 years ago
you and savakii are one and the same intelligentpersian.
AsemanBiEnteha27 3 years ago
AsemanBiEnteha27
You have indicated that you are under impression that Savakiii and I are the same. This indicates what kind of idiots are you Shah Worshipers. You idiot just click on Savakiii name and see all of his disgusting Shah Worshiping videos and click on my name and see all of my anti Shah and anti Khomeini videos. No idiot, Savakiii is a trashy Shah Lover like you, but I am someone to oppose all dictators like Shah and Khomeini. Got it?
intelligentpersian 3 years ago
if you are a true supporter of the shah, please don't talk like that no matter how inhuman these people are. We need an Iran made of kind, loving, forgiving people. Even the idiots that joined this revolution are now regretful. Most of their children are drug addicated or jobless.
AsemanBiEnteha27 3 years ago
Javid Shah
nahalaliyah 4 years ago