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

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From: "Ramin Etebar, MD" Mobile Alert

Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 00:46:05 -0800

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
February 27, 2006



**MEDIA ALERT**MEDIA ALERT**MEDIA ALERT**


"The Current Situation in Iran."



http://npc.press.org/calendar/calendarday.cfm?whatday=1&&whatyear=2006&&whatmonth=3

WHAT: The Son of the former Shah of Iran, Reza Pahlavi, will discuss "The Current Situation in Iran."

WHO: Since the establishment of the clerical regime in Iran, and the passing of his father, the late Shah of Iran, Reza Pahlavi has been a leading and vocal advocate of the principles of freedom, democracy and human rights for his countrymen. In 1978, Reza Pahlavi, then Crown Prince of Iran, left his homeland to complete his higher education in the United States. An accomplished jet fighter pilot, Reza Pahlavi completed the United States Air Force Training Program at the former Reese Air Force Base in Lubbock, Texas. He is a Political Science graduate of the University of Southern California.

WHERE: National Press Club

Murrow Room

529 14th Street NW

Washington, DC 20045

Maps & Directions
WHEN: Wedesday, March 1, 2006

9:00 AM


Media interested in covering this event may contact:


Peter Hickman, NPC, 301-530-1210 or 202-662-7540

Mr. Pahlavi: Kamaran Beigi, 202-498-4375, beigi@earthlink.net

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I think C-Span usually broadcasts National Press Club, so you might be able to see it on C-SPAN.

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WASHINGTON, March 1 /PRNewswire/ -- Appearing as the "news maker" guest of the National Press Club, Reza Pahlavi of Iran challenged the ongoing debate between proponents of military action versus diplomacy, instead appealing to the "free world to support the thousand circles of localized dissent and opposition that readily exists in Iran, but which desperately need to link with one another and the outside world." Explaining how this vast network of homegrown dissent was being kept isolated from each other by the regime, he said that it would readily flourish only if it could "find solidarity with each other and an unwavering free world."

In his remarks to representatives of the international news media, the 45-year-old opposition leader to the Islamic regime warned that just as the "Euro-three diplomatic efforts bought Iran's theocrats three extra years, another series of cat-and-mouse games with the Russians may buy the clerical regime the time it needs to make the bomb."

Rejecting any talk of military strikes against his homeland, the former jet fighter pilot said that "it would ultimately rally nationalistic sentiments which would work to the regime's advantage; consequently, giving the theocrats a much longer lease on life." Calling the situation in his homeland "a race against time," he said that "it was a matter of what comes first in Iran: Democracy or nuclear weapons?"

Offering his geo-strategic view of the region, the former Crown Prince pointed to the regional ambitions of an increasingly adventurous clerical regime in Tehran. Referring to a "Bermuda Triangle from Iraq to Lebanon to Palestine," which was being taken over by Iran's allies, "through the ballot box," he said, "as long as the Islamic Republic was in power, the project for democracy in the greater Middle East may actually pave the way for Iran's own very calculated expansionism."

Citing results of recent Palestinian and Iraqi elections as proof, Reza Pahlavi explained that, "when Iran's protégés are offered the necessary money, information, and support, along with tools of intimidation and violence, they will always find the upper-hand against their rivals in any such nascent democracies." As with Lebanon, he added, "if, Iranian generosity, allows Hezbollah to spend more money than the government on schools, mosques, hospitals and even social services, no one should be surprised if they win or dominate elections."

"So, clearly the answer is democracy in Iran, which will be hindered by military strikes or giving the regime more time through endless negotiations," said Reza Pahlavi.

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Matne Farsi sokhanrani Reza Pahlavi dar kanoone melli motbooat dar Washington:

http://www.rezapahlavi.org/messages/PayamNPC03012006.html

" Lotfan dar pakhshe har che gostardeh-tare matne in sokhanrani ma ra yari namaeed"

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Reza Pahlavi dirooz, Sehshanbe 16 Esfand mahe 1384, dar yek goftogo ba radio Sedaye Iran beh soalate khabarnegaran va hamchenin hamvatananeh daroon marzi pasokh dadand. Baraye shenidane in goftegoo beh address zir moraje-eh konid:

http://www.rezapahlavi.org/audiovideo/KRSI030706.html

" Lotfan dar pakhshe har che gostardeh-tare in mosahebe ma ra yari namaeed"