I believe, Well Shah did put in jail thinkers and the most smart people as did this regime! I believe, Because of what Shah did that we ended up with this regime.
I believe that you are wrong. I believe some of the actions that were completed during the Shah's era (not regime: need i remind the forum that the country has a house of representative and senates when at times passed laws that werer not in line with shah's thinking as opposed to now that the islamic gathering of donkeys is a complete toilet and non entity), delayed the islamic revolution from happening in the 60s and even in the late 50s.
He had phobia (rightfully so) of the leftist and he ignored the influence of Mullahs. Basically till the end he looked down at Akhoonds as a major force of change.
Agreed on the first part because, as i said a million times before, our left be it fadayee, peykaaar, tude, ranjbaraan were all satellites of soviet union which automatically made them traitors to Iran and Iranian people and unfortunately Shah's secret police were too soft on them (maybe on purpose). You can have socialist parties and even communist parties (such as in France and Sweden) that work towards their own country, unfortunately our left's sole purpose was to sell information to the soviets and their elements within the iranian borders.
Agreed with you on the second part too. Shah's deficiency on entertaining the MAFOOL akhounds which were the direct manifestation of a festering culture of barbaric arabs greatly helped undermine his rule on iran. He did it to please the people but sometimes you have to make policy that in the short term might cause disruptions but in long term will bring prosperity and posterity to the nation and the country and he failed to realize this.
and the expression of black and red barbarism joining hands is to the point of this but unfortunately it was too late for him to reverse his policies and decisions he was already in exile.
At the time most of good thinkers and smartest people were either a part of the Communist movement or a part of Jebhe Melli. For instance Kianoori, Tabari, Farrokh Negahdar ... from leftist groups were genius people in their own field. On the other hand Bazargan,... as far as I know was one of teh most talented people. There were people in Communist parties that had been affiliated to USSR at the time which I think was wrong but the nature
I need to emphasize an opinion here; the word "thinker" might be a bit misleading here.
One might take two or three doctorates in how to betray and destroy a country. I would classify them as an intellectual and a thinker but should he be treated as a thinker or as a traitor ???
you can bet your bollocks to a barn dance that he should be STOPPED by any means necessary, ideally with peaceful means such as house arrest and exile and on repeat offences by long term prison sentence and possible execution.
Kianoori, tabari, bani sadr, beheshti, soroosh were (and some still are) traitors and mostly got what they deserved for what they did to Iranians and iranian culture.
I believe Leftist did a lot of wrong things which siding with the regime till 1361-2 was one (Except Fadayi Aksariat) but one thing was for sure that they were not traitors and they did love this country as many others did. I think the changes happend after they demonstrated in Azadi square and were brutally suppressed and leaders poisoned afterwards.
this organization used to rub banks and shoot security guards, kill army personnel to achieve their goals. When you raise arms against the army of your nation (legitimate army that defends your borders against ANIMALS SUCH AS SADDAM HOSSEIN) you deserve whatever you get.
you deserve to be shot in the hills of evin (jazani) or executed (hanif nezhad) but I am opposed by all means to torture. absolutely opposed. Trial, conviction and execution (or stripping the citizenship and deportation)
What is with the phrase "your revolutionary forces" mean? My revolutionary forces are at work hopefully filing for patent today
my friend the patent was registered during those treacherous days of 1978-9, don't file for it you ll be turned down
Thanks to Payan for his view on the revolution. I came back to country as a kid when war had just started Winter 1359 and did not see the revolution. Just remember going to London by train and demonstrating against the Shah regime embassy till revolution won every other day. Those were fun days for a small kid.
yes well you can go visit the country now and see the results of your fun with 20 percent unemployment, drug abuse, repression, breakdown of social services not to mention hundreds of thousands of executions and tortured. I guess you had your fun and they are paying for it.
