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Soraya Esfandiary-Bakhtiari person

also: Queen Soraya, Soraya, the Queen, second wife, Queen Sore

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“the 33-year-old Shah of Iran and his glamorous 21-year-old wife. They were swept into the lobby of the Hotel Excellier in Rome's fashionable Via Veneto. The young royal couple cut a striking image.…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 11 @ 1:09

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The Colonels Corner Hidden Terrors by AJ Langguth Part 7
▶ 1:22:39 Do you remember last week or two weeks ago I was telling you about that one autobiography series that I was watching about? Well, anyway, it was regarding the second wife that the Shah had when he got married to her. He was exiled, brought …
The Colonels Corner Hidden Terrors by AJ Langguth Part 7
▶ 1:23:08 doing it back with the Americans and stuff like that because they thought it was the lesser of the two evils. And then the second wife, her family, her father was in exile because they wanted the land and stuff like that. Back many, I guess…
The Colonels Corner Hidden Terrors by AJ Langguth Part 7
▶ 1:23:37 And a lot of this stuff was going on during then, just like how how they set up like the protesters like Antifa. They did that for it was just insane. But I was like, oh, my gosh, that totally that whole thing, the whole Iran thing years ea…
The Colonels Corner Hidden Terrors by AJ Langguth Part 7
▶ 1:24:07 Her name is Soraya. It's the second wife. I'll put it in the bottom of the thing. But her biography talks about all that stuff because that's where it all happened. But her family background is also her dad's family were exiled earlier when…
The Colonel’s Corner safe for Democracy Part 9
▶ 19:04 and appointed Zahidi as premier. But here, there's some confusion as to the record. Kim Roosevelt recounts that the Shah left with Queen Soraya to a resort town on Iran's Caspian Sea without approving the decrees. The chief of the palace gu…
The Colonel’s Corner safe for Democracy Part 9
▶ 19:33 This is also the version in the CIA history, but by some accounts, Queen Sore played a crucial last minute role in stiffening the Shah's resolve. There's another account, however, that Prince Menacher Farminian, an intimate of the Iranian r…
The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 11
▶ 0:36 Let me get live over here on Rumble so we can get started. We're on chapter 10, episode 11. So we're going to start talking about the Dulles Imperium is the name of the chapter. So this part of the book starts in August of 1953 with Muhamma…
The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 11
▶ 1:09 the 33-year-old Shah of Iran and his glamorous 21-year-old wife. They were swept into the lobby of the Hotel Excellier in Rome's fashionable Via Veneto. The young royal couple cut a striking image.…
The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 11
▶ 1:42 with all of their royal garb. Soraya was half Persian and half German and had, by many, described as the most beautiful person in royalty at the time. They had disembarked from an aircraft and…
The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 11
▶ 2:49 That was just the first part of their journey. They took off so fast, they left the queen's dog. The young Shah seemed lost in exile. We do not have any money, the Shah warned his wife, who was the daughter of a prominent Iranian diplomat a…
The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 11
▶ 3:21 They would have to be careful with their spending. Before they fled, he had even asked her whether or not they could sell some of their wedding gifts. To include a mean coat and a desk set with black diamonds from Joseph Stalin. During thei…
The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 11
▶ 28:23 from fleeing the country, telling him that it was his duty to stand with the rebel forces and assured him of U.S. protection. But the Shah was a chicken shit and left. He went to Baghdad and then to Rome. As the turbulent events unfolded in…
The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 11
▶ 28:56 Despite his budget worries, the Shah mustered the nerve to buy himself four tennis rackets and a pair of black antelope shoes, as well as two crocodile handbags and a dozen summer frocks for his wife on a budget. I've shopped in Italy. Ther…
The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 11
▶ 32:42 Placing a reassuring hand on her husband's arm, Dulles quickly arranged a special commercial flight to get him back in the country so no one would notice that he had abandoned them. Soraya stayed on in Rome. She was also consulting with a p…
The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 11
▶ 33:14 and I still can't get pregnant. Soraya never overcame her infertility. Frustrated by the queen's inability to provide an heir, a weeping shah finally announced their divorce in 1958. Aided by a generous royal settlement, she returned to Rom…