As more time passes it becomes more and more clear how much this father and son did for Iran and how hard they tried to make it great in every possible way. Some with old ideologies, family biases, and personal gain like to attribute negativity and lies to the Pahlavis. There is never a perfect system anywhere and you can’t make everyone happy. There always be those that for one reason or another will attempt to spread lies and not accept the truth’s or have a fair assessment of the situation. The level of liking that Iranian’s are showing now towards these people from Iran when realizing what they did for Iran and what they had planned are the facts which will never change.
Parham jaan I was reading the other day that when the production of F14 was to be ordered the company responsible for making it did not get the funds from the US government. The deal with Iran was worth 2 billion which was the biggest of its time. That company finally obtained about 250 million dollars. It was the bank of Iran which loaned them the money and because of that other investor groups came forward. I maybe stating some of the numerical details wrong but it was this act that actually allowed such production to go forward. Perhaps you can shed more light on this matter.
What I am indicating is that no matter how you look at it the steps taken were to make Iran stronger and better. More competent, respected, and strong. Another thing I read the other day was the number of kings, queens, princess, princesses, presidents, prime ministers and other people that came to the 2500 year celebrations. It was close to a 100 or more world leaders. This shows you level of respect that was being bestowed on Iran and the good publicity and future possibilities which were being made available by these Iran lovers all to be ruined by a bunch of idiots.
The absolute fraud documentary made by Hassan Dahbashi which he was arrested and charged with fake documents is a prime example simple minded narrowed view. In this Documentry which he faked documents(supposedly from Harvard which Harvard denied he ever got those legally) with the Islamic regimes help to create a documentary that was anti the 2500 celebrations and the Shah in general. Anyway, in this nonsense he and another guy who BTW is now one of Rouhanis main aids were claiming how the 2500 celeberations cost 300 million and that was to much. Well this idiot who supports the Islamic regime dosent question how Astan Razavis annual budget is that much or how about Khamenies 90 billion dollar empier which is outside of Iran's economy and he plays ZERO TAX?
How about the business opportunities it created for Iran around the world .Just having 72 HEADS OF STATES FROM THE MOST DEVELOPED COUNTRIES UNDER ONE ROOF, would help our standing in the international community like the world market where lets not forget by 1976 Iran had the fastest growing currency and one of the top 11 currencies where the world bank accepted to use it in it's RESERVES.. It also showed our history to the world and the tourists it generated towards Iran and the money they brought.The Pahlavis atleast tried to show a positive and true light of Iran's heritage.These mother fuckers have sent over 25 billion dollars towards Assad in the last 30 months. Yes 25 BILLION DOLLARS.Mr Dahbashi is not making documentaries regarding these issues is he?.
As for the F-14's, just go ask any F-14 pilot who fought in the war and see how much of waste it was.One IIAF/IRIAF pilot who was one of the first Tomcats pilots in Iran in a book wrote he flew both the F-14 and the F-15 and the F-14 was destroying the F-15's in mock dogfight combats. Eating them alive in almost every dogfight. He flew both of them and he clearly said because of the terrain of Iran and not having an integrated radar, we needed a flying radar which could defend itself and be able to have beyond visual range capability to hit or pick off the enemy before he could see you with it's weapons and radar envelope.Simply the F-14 had superior radar, weapons range(envelope) and sensors.This pilot was tortured at the beginning of the revolution for being pro shah but was freed after war started and become our second most successful pilot in the war after Timsar(Lt General)Zandi who also had two death sentences over his head of the revolutionary courts.
Yes Iran did loan Grunman a portion of the money which guaranteed the rest from the American government for Grunman to survive.These were the tip of the iceberg on Iran's list. Iran was planning to start manufacturing F-18's by the mid 80's in Iran. One Aircraft carrier was planning to be bought for a huge blueocean naval fleet supported by 6 sprouse class detroyers and 8 submarines.. Iran was planning to build Apache and Super Navy Cobrs in Iran. The HESA helicopter facility in Isfahan was built already just before the revolution. Iran alo was planning to buid Shir 1 and 2 tanks in iran as well. Shah had build all the facilities and had send hundreds of engineers abroad and skilled technition for training. His plan was to become self sufficent by mid late1980'. The stuff this regime makes now are produced in the same facilities and infastructures shah built.They aren't even at the point where we would have been by the 80's.We would have been a country producing world class weapons with the state of the art sensors. When he was planning to make iran a top 5 exporting/economic power and a fully self sufficient military force and when he talked about the tamadone bozorg, he meant a super power status Iran which we were on the gradual stepth on that path by the turn of the century.Iran was planning to be the second japan of the region but with actuall other resources like gas and oil as well Today god knows where we would have been.Sadly charlattans in ties and khomenie in their other hands destroyed us.Erteja Sorkha Sia came true. Shah was to modern and future thinker for a nation that was probably not ready for so much progress.As one of shah's ministers told him that the turks are telling us that foreign entities are planning to cause trouble but shah said, let them, I have my people behind me and no one can break our bond. We now know how people appreciated progress and his efforts to fight for Iran's national interests..
BTW,The only reason they are keeping Shah's airforce flying right now is because he built the Iranian IACI at Mehrabad where the IRIAF overhauls the current fleet of F-4's and F-5's and where we planned to start Iranian made fighters or the Overhaul facilities at Khatami airbase in Isfahan for the F-14's.The bache akhounds sadly are so uneducated that they think this is happening because of the things this regime built.