[FREE IRAN Project] In The Spirit Of Cyrus The Great

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"...Today, Reza Pahlavi is an advocate for secular democracy for his home country. He returned to Williamstown this week to speak to Williams College students and urge them to join the fight for change in Iran, a change he said could only be achieved through nonviolence and civil resistance to an illegitimate regime.

In an interview with local press yesterday morning, Pahlavi said that the clerical regime in Iran today has lost all authority with the people...

..Pahlavi said the world needs to be careful not to lend any legitimacy to the current regime, and should focus on supporting the active opposition within the country. Such an approach would bring peaceful change, and could be accomplished without the need for bloodshed..."


From an article published on April 21, 2004, in the Berkshire Eagle:

http://www.rezapahlavi.org/articles/be42104.html

http://www.berkshireeagle.com/Stories/0,1413,101~7514~2097467,00.html

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In an interview with local press yesterday morning, Pahlavi said that the clerical regime in Iran today has lost all authority with the people.

He cited February's parliamentary elections in which he said only 10 percent of eligible voters participated. The turnout is the subject of some dispute: According to the BBC, the reformist Interior Ministry put voter turnout at about 50 percent, while the conservative Council of Guardians said the figure is closer to 60 percent.


----The wording of the phrase regarding the BBC is misleading: The BBC ITSELF, as it did not question the source and accepted the figure at face value, propogated the wrong figure. The BBC, who during the Islammunist anti-Iran revolution aired the view that the Islamist will place Iran "where it belongs", acted as it always has: it has been a mouthpiece for the Islamic Republic. Note that the 50% figure was also given by Ayatullah Ebadi, the Interior Ministry operative of Al-Nobel fame. Also note that Hossein Bagherzadeh, a so-called "opposition figure", went even further and, expressing the Islamist Guardian Council sentiment, ruled the boycot as a "failure".

Bagherzadeh


http://www.nimrooz.com/html/770/122673.htm



THANK YOU REZA PAHLAVI, REZA SHAH II.