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PostPosted: Wed Nov 26, 2008 5:53 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

HIM Shahbanou.
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PostPosted: Thu Jan 29, 2009 12:45 pm    Post subject: Her Majesty Queen Farah Pahlavi interview with German TV Reply with quote

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مصاحبه تلویزیون دولتی آلمان با شهبانو فرح پهلوی

Watch Video: Her Majesty Queen Farah Pahlavi interview with German TV
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PostPosted: Sat Feb 14, 2009 4:49 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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برای شنیدن مصاحبه علیاحضرت شهبانو فرح پهلوی با رادیو فردا و همچنین مصاحبه شاهزاده رضا پهلوی " رضا شاه دوم " با رادیو صدای ایران به لینکهای زیر مراجعه نمائید ، با سپاس از میلاد نازنین برای ارسال این ایمیلها با آرزوی موفقیت و پیروزی

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برای شنیدن مصاحبه علیاحضرت شهبانو فرح پهلوی با رادیو فردا لطفا بر روی لینک زیر کلیک فرمایید:

http://www.farahpahl avi.org/fp- jk2009.mp3

برای شنیدن مصاحبه شاهزاده رضا پهلوی با رادیو صدای ایران لطفا به ۲ لینک زیر مراجعه فرمایید.

قسمت اول:


http://www.rezapahlavi.net/audios/?id=271#271

قسمت دوم:

http://www.rezapahlavi.net/audios/?id=272#272

http://www.rezapahlavi.net/audios.php/?id=269#269

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PostPosted: Sat Feb 14, 2009 5:03 pm    Post subject: 'Light Will Win Over Darkness' -- Iran's Former Empress Disc Reply with quote

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February 07, 2009
'Light Will Win Over Darkness' -- Iran's Former Empress Discusses New Documentary

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The former empress of Iran, Farah Pahlavi, is the subject of a newly released documentary from an unlikely source -- Iranian-born filmmaker Nahid Persson, a former communist who took part in the 1979 revolution.

"The Queen And I" follows the former empress and her onetime opponent as they share ideas and concerns about the country they were both forced to leave. Farah Pahlavi speaks to RFE/RL correspondent Golnaz Esfandiari about her decision to participate in the documentary, screened at the Sundance Film Festival in January.

RFE/RL: Why did you agree to take part in "The Queen And I" -- the documentary by Nahid Persson, in which you are the subject?

Farah Pahlavi: I always have a positive view and affection toward my countrymen, especially those young artists who have been successful inside and outside Iran.

So, when Nahid Persson asked to do this -- since I had seen two of her documentaries, including one about prostitution in Iran, which was very painful but she had done it with courage, and also another one about a man in Iran who has four wives and wants to marry a fifth -- because of that I accepted to work with her and participate in the documentary.

RFE/RL: Were there any moments when you regretted your decision?

Pahlavi: Yes, this comes also in the movie. After some time [working together], I received several e-mails informing me that she was a communist in her youth, she was a member of a communist group that I hadn't heard of. Naturally I started having doubts, and I thought to myself, "All these 30 years, with all the problems, all the attacks against me by the Islamic republic or negative articles by opponents, all these years I did my best to tell, in hundreds of interviews with TV networks, press and other media, what I see as the truth and realities of the monarchy and also the realities of today's Iran."

I had doubts because the person who makes a documentary is in charge of the camera, filming, and also editing, so I was a bit concerned. I thought to myself, "This lady was young and was unfortunately from a [low-income family] and at that age and that time, they would think that communist ideas would bring justice and equality." And all the slogans at that time were about freedom. But I have traveled to [former] communist countries and there was no sign of social justice or freedom.




Then I thought, "Why shouldn't I have a dialogue with people who in the past had different political opinions?" What is important for us is that we're Iranians and we have to think about Iran's future, and I know that some of those who were part of the opposition have come and said with courage that they are sorry for what they did. It's true that there were some shortages at that time, but there was no need for such a horrible revolution. Of course, there are also those whose opinion will never change.

RFE/RL: What would you describe as the biggest highlight? The most interesting part of the documentary?

Pahlavi: For me, the interesting thing about this documentary is that two people in different positions and with different political ideas can talk to each other. In the documentary we don't have an official meeting, we talk to each other, we tell each other our problems.

I think in that sense it is interesting, but I leave it to the audience. Everyone might see a different thing in the documentary.

RFE/RL: How was your first meeting with Persson? Did you feel you were meeting someone from another world?

Pahlavi: Even in the past, during the monarchy, some of our ministers had a communist or leftist past, so it wasn't the first time for me. At first when we met, we didn't know each other. Aside from the differing political views, it takes time to get used to a new character and personal behavior. When we slowly got to know each other, it was easier to talk.

It's been 30 years that I haven't had the status I once had, yet I still have a special feeling for my countrymen.

RFE/RL: Have you seen the final version of the documentary? What did you think about it?

Pahlavi: I've seen the final version. Certain things are said there; there are certain issues that I don't agree with. To a certain degree she was free to do this, but I wished she had given me the same opportunity as she had given to herself to express her views when she was by herself, so that I could have also expressed my views. And I think it would have made the documentary more interesting and it would have been more fair.

RFE/RL: Could you give us an example?

Pahlavi: Well, for example, the notion that were no political freedoms in the past. I've said it myself in many places that the conditions of the country were such that, at the time, it was not possible to guarantee those freedoms and the late Shah [Mohammad Reza Pahlavi] always used to say that after him, his son, the prince, would rule differently.

And there were scenes that didn't make me happy, but one cannot be content about everything. I have given many interviews during these years, but I never knew what the results would be. I always express my views -- but a journalist, a filmmaker, also adds his or her view.

RFE/RL: What is the message of the documentary in your view?

Pahlavi: For me, the most important thing is that we're two people who have or had different political philosophies or views -- maybe we became closer. We have to think about Iran's tomorrow, we have to think about Iran's today, and we have to put the issues we had in the past behind us. I think this is the documentary's most important message.

I am sure that what may be an issue for some of us is not an issue anymore inside Iran. For the women of Iran, for Iran's young people, for Iranians from different classes and groups -- they want to have a better life, they want to be able to make a living, have jobs and a comfortable life, they want to be able to live freely, have better health care. You know, these are more important for Iranians inside the country than ideas and differences that we had 50 years ago.

RFE/RL: The 30th anniversary of the Iranian Revolution is being celebrated these days. What are your thoughts on this?

Pahlavi: Sometimes I can't believe that 30 years have passed, because I still live everyday with the thought of Iran and Iranians on my mind. I naturally think, like [many] Iranians, that if this horrible revolution hadn't happened, our country with its immense national wealth, natural resources, and its human richness, what a place it could have had in that region. It's really regrettable after what happened to the security of Iran, and the region is threatened, and its threat has reached the world.

I am really hopeful and I will not give up hope for the freedom of Iran, for the improvement of Iran's situation. I hope that Iran will regain the respected place it had in the international community -- and I greet all the women and young people; workers and intellectuals and villagers; and all Iranians who, despite all the problems and pressure, are still fighting to have a better life and for the future of their country. I always believe that light will win over darkness.
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PostPosted: Wed Feb 18, 2009 7:22 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I have seen VOA interview with Nahid Persson, regarding this documentary. Like many Tudees/Communists she said "she was not sorry" for her dreadful activities that brought in Khomenie. If a person is soooo stupid that still hangs on to an ideolgoy that was deadly for the well-being of Iranian people, then not only I have no respect for her, I see her as a traitor. I personally feel HIM Shahbanou should have never given her this opportunity.
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PostPosted: Wed Apr 29, 2009 3:21 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

HIM Shahbanou interview with BBC.


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PostPosted: Mon Jun 15, 2009 5:03 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

HIM Shahbanou's speech on the anniversary of passing of Princess Leila Pahlavi.

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PostPosted: Fri Jun 26, 2009 4:51 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

HIM Shahbanou Farah Pahlavi interview with CBC.

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PostPosted: Sun Jul 26, 2009 12:25 pm    Post subject: H.I.M. Shahbanoo Farah Pahlavi Reply with quote

یام علیاحضرت شهبانو فرح پهلوی را به مناسبت سالگرد درگذشت اعلیحضرتPDF محمدرضا شاه پهلوی شاهنشاه آریامهر

http://www.farahpahlavi.org/fpmessage-july27-09.pdf

IRAN CRISIS - SPECIAL REPORTS and INTERVIEWS WITH EMPRESS FARAH PAHLAVI, REZA PAHLAVI II, YASMINE PAHLAVI
http://www.farahpahlavi.org/iran-freedom.html



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PostPosted: Sun Jul 26, 2009 12:30 pm    Post subject: Reza, Yasmine, Noor and Iman Pahlavi UNITED FOR IRAN ( Frenc Reply with quote



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Reza, Yasmine, Noor and Iman Pahlavi UNITED FOR IRAN ( French Translation thanks to DK )

« The Spirit of Iran’s Youth Is Perfectly in Line With My Principles »


At 48 years of age, Reza Pahlavi, the eldest son of the late Shah of Iran, say’s he is ready to give his life to save his country. Exiled for more than three decades, he lives on the East Coast of the United States, but often travels to Europe where his mother, Empress Farah, resides as well as a large number of his compatriots in the Diaspora.

Before arriving in Paris, where he gave a press conference on the 2nd of July, the prince took an active role in the demonstrations held by fellow compatriots in Washington D.C. . His wife Princess Yasmine and their two eldest daughters, Princess’ Noor and Iman, also took part in the Street demonstrations ( And in Front of the White House) particularly touched and concerned by the tragic death of Neda Agha Soltan, killed by a bullet on June 20th in Tehran. Princess Noor is 17 years old and is attending a private school in Maryland like her younger sister, Princess Iman, who is 15.

If the Pahlavi Dynasty were to be restored, Princess Noor could one day ascend on the “Peacock Throne” of Iran. However at the moment her father Crown Prince Reza is not looking that far. His Only preoccupation at this stage is to see his compatriots Free of the Theocratic regime that is oppressing them and try and put an end to the bloodshed in his home country.

PDV International Correspondent Philippe Delorme


Photo Caption: Princesse Yasmine ( Left) holds the photo of Neda Agha Soltan and daughters Noor and Iman (behind the Iranian Flag) took part at the demonstrations in Washington D.C. in support of their fellow Iranian compatriots back home. The recent events in Iran seem to confirm Reza Pahlavi’s political status as the major opponent to the Islamic Republic of Iran.
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PostPosted: Wed Jul 29, 2009 8:11 pm    Post subject: Iranian exiles whisper of return to monarchy Reply with quote

Iranian exiles whisper of return to monarchy
Matt Bradley, Foreign Correspondent

Last Updated: July 29. 2009 11:07PM UAE / July 29. 2009 7:07PM GMT


Farah D iba , left, widow of the late shah of Iran , and Jihan Sadat, widow of Egypt ’s assassinated president Anwar Sadat, attend a ceremony at the shah’s tomb in Cairo ’s Al Rifa’i Mosque. Khaled Desouki / AFP

CAIRO // Either due to force or frustration, the placards and protesters have all but disappeared from the streets of Tehran, where disputed presidential elections in mid-June brought thousands of supporters for reformist candidates, such as Mir-Hossein Mousavi, onto the streets.

But in Egypt ’s capital, a restrained spirit of resistance remains among a small group of Iranian exiles. As Iranians in Iran shout their support for democracy and Mr Mousavi, the few members of the global Iranian diaspora who gathered here on Monday whispered of a return to a monarchy and wept for a different man: Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Iran’s deposed shah, who died and was buried here 29 years ago this week.

“He is my great father, that is how I would address him. I have come here to visit my father,” said Mo Saisley, 59, who owns a property firm in Kingston-upon-Thames in England . Mr Saisley said he has been coming to Cairo for 22 years to honour the late monarch, but that unlike in past years, this anniversary holds special significance: it is the first to follows the worst political violence in Iran since the 1979 revolution that overthrew the monarch.

“We said it then: don’t listen to the mullahs. And we’re saying it again,” Mr Saisley said.
Every July 27, this small group of Iranians travels from Europe and the US to watch Jehan Sedat, the wife of Egypt’s assassinated former president, and Farah Pahlavi, the deceased shah’s wife, pay tribute to their husbands’ controversial – and inextricably linked – political legacies.

The perceptions of excess, corruption and autocracy that surrounded Iran ’s former emperor in the months following the revolution made him an international pariah. Even Jimmy Carter, then the US president, which had been the shah’s chief patron during his 37-year rule, asked Pahlavi to leave America in 1979, where the shah had been receiving medical treatment.

It was an ignominious end for the Iranian ruler, who had considered himself the scion of 2,500 years of great Persian emperors beginning with Cyrus the Great. After nearly a year of transient exile, it was Anwar Sadat, the former president of Egypt , who finally welcomed the deposed shah months before Pahlavi’s death from cancer in 1980 at the age of 60 and about one year before Sadat himself was killed by an assassin’s bullet in 1981.

While it was unlikely that Sadat’s decision to host the shah led to his assassination, it could not have helped, said Gamal Abdel Gawad, a security analyst for the semi-official Al Ahram Centre for Strategic Studies.

“It was a mistake because even countries like the United States didn’t receive him. It was costly, the decision. There was a price Egypt paid for that,” said Mr Gawad. “Definitely, it’s a decision that affected Iranian-Egyptian relations later and delayed and is still delaying any improvement in relations between Egypt and Iran .”

To this day, Egypt remains the only Arab country that has not renewed its diplomatic ties with the Islamic Republic. As Iran ’s power throughout the Middle East has increased following the US-led invasion of Iraq , lingering suspicions between Egypt and Iran have grown substantially worse. In the past year, the Egyptian government has repeatedly accused Iran of meddling with Arab affairs, particularly through its regional proxies such as Hizbollah, the Lebanese political party and militia.

As a tribute to the late Egyptian president, Monday’s ceremony began with a laying of wreaths at Sadat’s tomb. For those who still venerate the shah, Sadat remains a towering figure who, like the late Iranian ruler, was forced to consolidate his power to fight the twin threats of Islamism and communism.

When asked about the shah’s poor record on human rights, many of the exiles said that while Pahlavi’s autocratic, often brutal, methods were hardly an example of democracy in action, the Islamic Republic has diminished personal freedoms to a far greater extent.

“We have a young generation, and after 30 years, they don’t remember anything from the shah’s time,” said Altreza Azizi, a 55-year-old who owns a small business in Iran . Mr Azizi said he has made an annual pilgrimage to Cairo for the past three years. “I think that we had more democracy compared to this time. We have no democracy now, not even personal democracy. You cannot choose even the colour of your shirt.”

To the chagrin of Mr Azizi, even these trying times have not rekindled an interest in the shah. Today, most Iranian youths remain ignorant of what Mr Azizi said were Pahlavi’s true accomplishments: economic growth, improved education, land redistribution and secular governance.

“I say always that we had shortcomings but we didn’t really need such a horrible revolution,” said Farah Pahlavi, the late shah’s wife and the former empress of Iran , in an interview with The National. “Reforms could have been done. And I think for many, that’s clear today when they compare the situation in Iran to 30 years ago in Iran , even in freedom to wear what they want, to listen to what they want, to travel where they want.”

At a dinner reception after the memorial at one of the Egyptian government’s official guest residences in Heliopolis , a Cairo suburb, mourners milled about in neckties bearing the official sun and lion crest of the Persian Empire . Guests passed around mock Iranian currency from before the revolution while Sadat’s widow, Jehan Sadat, signed copies of her recent book, My Hope for Peace. Conversation turned to Iran ’s past and breathless hopes for a return to the monarchy under the shah’s son, Reza Pahlavi, the crown prince, who now lives in the United States .

“He will be a symbol of unity. His ideal vision is the European monarchy,” said Bahman Maalizadeh, who flew from Washington , DC , for the event.

“The crown prince says, ‘Let there be a free Iran and let’s give the choice to the people for what they want for the future’. That’s why he asked for a referendum. He says, ‘Let’s have a free Iran and give the choice to the people’.”
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