Reza Pahlavi person
also: Rege Pahlavi, the Shah's son, Raja Khan, Raza Khan, Raja Shah Pravlavi, Raja Pahlavi, Raja Pavlovi, Reza Pavlovi, Baby Shaw
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Claims (63)
Jimmy Carter approved
Reza Pahlavi documented
“advanced prostate cancer treatment. In September 1979, Carter approved the visit and the dying Shah was flown in. Almost immediately, it was apparent that his treatment was seen as a slap in the face to the Iranian people. On November 1979,…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Prelude to Terror Chap 23 @ 42:42
Reza Pahlavi removed_from_power
Kurdish militant groups documented
“stopped free passage for CIA arms shipments, and closed his border to Barzani's Peshmerga. The next day, the Iraqis began a full-scale offensive. On March 10th, the Kurds sent CIA an anguished appeal. Our people's fate is in unprecedented d…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 33 (35) @ 51:36
Reza Pahlavi funded
Kurdish militant groups documented
“The Shah of Iran feared the end of the Kurdish war would bring more direct confrontation between Iran and Iraq. He stirred up trouble for the Iraqi government by then in the hands of Saddam Hussein, thanks to us. The Shah offered money and …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 33 (35) @ 41:52
Ayatollah Khomeini overthrew
Reza Pahlavi host_asserted
“The SABAC, that was basically the terror organization, as we saw the DINA in Chile and everything else. He was installed by the CIA after overthrowing Mosaddegh. So the overthrow of the Shah by the Ayatollah, who, by the way, just mysteriou…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Cocaine Death Squad & War on Terror Part 10 Final @ 1:45:43
Reza Pahlavi installed
Mohammad Mosaddegh book_quoted
“of the CIA. The Shah is living in a dream world, Henderson remarked later. He seems to think his restoration was due entirely to his popularity. He knew better. Dulles would look back on the coup in Iran as one of the two greatest triumphs …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 11 @ 34:46
Reza Pahlavi overthrew
Mohammad Mosaddegh book_quoted
“At the hotel, a curious wink and a nod, but then quickly moved on. Amid the hubbub of Mosaddegh's fall, noted the magazine, the CIA director suddenly was spotted in the hotel. But no one paid attention to him, they said. Dulles not only per…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 11 @ 36:06
Reza Pahlavi ordered_assassination_of
Tudeh Party book_quoted
“and had ever touched Mosaddegh or any of his efforts. The Tudor party bore the brunt. With CIA assistance, the Shah's U.S.-trained security forces tracked down over 4,000 party members from 53 to 57. And by the way, that 4,000 number, I've …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 11 @ 41:41
Standard Oil financed_via
Reza Pahlavi book_quoted
“Who else would allow that to happen to their country except for a dirty, rotten scoundrel? But the hollow man proved very useful for Western interests, including those of the Dulles brothers and their clients. Now, the book says former clie…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 11 @ 38:08
Ayatollah Khomeini overthrew
Reza Pahlavi book_quoted
“on executions out of fear of the prisoner's show of bravado that was impressing large segments of the people. All hope for change was ripped from the hearts of the Iranian people, replaced by poisonous seeds from a bitter fruit, growing slo…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 11 @ 43:07
William Martin spied_on
Reza Pahlavi book_quoted
“in New Orleans. And we know that the international trademark was part of the Gladio supply chain out of the port of New Orleans. It was the mechanism to get money in and out. It was a mechanism to get arms in and out. And William Martin tol…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe For Democracy Part 28 (29) @ 6:03
CIA installed
Reza Pahlavi host_asserted
“The SABAC, that was basically the terror organization, as we saw the DINA in Chile and everything else. He was installed by the CIA after overthrowing Mosaddegh. So the overthrow of the Shah by the Ayatollah, who, by the way, just mysteriou…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Cocaine Death Squad & War on Terror Part 10 Final @ 1:45:43
CIA installed
Reza Pahlavi host_asserted
“You know, so he's overthrown in 53. Kennedy comes in, Mossadegh was, and the Shah is basically put back in power. Kennedy tried pushing the Shah to make reforms because he's well aware of him using the secret police. And he basically pushed…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO - CHAPTER 60 - 'CIA MOSSAD SO'AK SHAH MULLAHS IRGC' - EP @ 13:34
CIA installed
Reza Pahlavi host_asserted
“which the CIA had gotten tired of working with him anyway. He was getting a little too big for his britches. So they didn't really care if someone overthrew him because keep in mind, the only reason the Shah was in charge of Iran at the tim…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO - PART 39 - _JIMMY CARTER & PANAMA CANAL_ - EP.372 @ 45:15
Reza Pahlavi supplied_arms_to
Iran book_quoted
“So they had spent from the beginning of like 1974, started at like $4.2 billion. Then they got up to $17 billion in weapons that we gave to the Ayatollah. Yeah. Also, this was interesting.…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner_ The Medusa Files; Part 12 @ 58:14
CIA installed
Reza Pahlavi host_asserted
“and install their own government in order to proceed with the pipeline, which, of course, we know they do that all the time. A somewhat similar situation arose in 1953 when, of course, he's talking about the overthrow of Mossadegh, which, a…”
▶ Operation Gladio and a look back at 9_11 @ 53:08
CIA installed
Reza Pahlavi host_asserted
“That's yesterday. Yes. Yeah. So if you look at the SABAC's creation, a couple of years after the Shah is put back in power by the CIA and MI6 and Mossad, you have the iteration of the creation of the SABAC by all of these same intelligence …”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO - CHAPTER 59 - '1983 BEIRUT MARINE BARRACKS BOMBING' - EP.429 @ 1:23:45
Mossad installed
Reza Pahlavi host_asserted
“That's yesterday. Yes. Yeah. So if you look at the SABAC's creation, a couple of years after the Shah is put back in power by the CIA and MI6 and Mossad, you have the iteration of the creation of the SABAC by all of these same intelligence …”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO - CHAPTER 59 - '1983 BEIRUT MARINE BARRACKS BOMBING' - EP.429 @ 1:23:45
Reza Pahlavi founded
SAVAK book_quoted
“The country's fledging democracy was dismantled. The members of the oppositional parties and press were rounded up and driven underground. With the CIA's strong encouragement, the Shah unleashed his secret police organization, First the Sec…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 11 @ 41:12
Reza Pahlavi overthrew
Qajar dynasty host_asserted
“took command of this elite unit. Raza Khan, the Shah that we know, a brigade officer, used the unit to consolidate power. In 1921, he led a coup with the brigade's support, becoming first the minister of war and later the prime minister. So…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO - CHAPTER 60 - 'CIA MOSSAD SO'AK SHAH MULLAHS IRGC' - EP @ 5:50
Reza Pahlavi recruited
Sirhan Sirhan book_quoted
“He says that the Kennedy's assassin went under the pseudonym of Ali Akhman, A-H-M-A-N-D, and worked for the Iranian intelligence under the Shah of Iran, who had recruited Sirhan as part of the plot. Did you know that Sirhan was from the Mid…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO - CHAPTER 60 - 'CIA MOSSAD SO'AK SHAH MULLAHS IRGC' - EP @ 40:15
Reza Pahlavi funded
Richard Nixon host_asserted
“primary in California, which was basically his last step to locking up the nomination. The night he won, he was assassinated. So when JFK was assassinated, the Shah privately was delighted. And we already read that in another article that t…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO - CHAPTER 60 - 'CIA MOSSAD SO'AK SHAH MULLAHS IRGC' - EP @ 42:18
Reza Pahlavi ordered_assassination_of
Robert F. Kennedy book_quoted
“And I'm going to spell that R-A-F-I-Z-A-D-E-A-D-E-H. Sorry, the head of SAVAK, the CIA unit, which was the Shah's secret police. Oh, and by the way, by this time, Mossad was also training SAVAK. Just saying. The Shah's secret police that wa…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO - CHAPTER 60 - 'CIA MOSSAD SO'AK SHAH MULLAHS IRGC' - EP @ 43:27
Operation Ajax installed
Reza Pahlavi host_asserted
“So his cousin, Archibald Roosevelt, is also involved in Iran. Isn't that interesting? And they're all Ritchie boys. Did anybody know that? So this was the code name. Okay, so they're talking about Operation Ajax was the code name for the 19…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Live Research Project into CIA corruption @ 38:30
Reza Pahlavi appointed
Fazlollah Zahedi book_quoted
“You're not allowed to do that. This led to President Eisenhower's signing a finding, which basically is the authorization, not that they needed it because he had already approved it. But that's kind of like a promissory note that Mosaddegh'…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner safe for Democracy Part 9 @ 18:30
Dwight D. Eisenhower funded
Reza Pahlavi book_quoted
“which defied their declaration of unconditional support for democracy around the globe, because they just overthrew it, supported the Shah. The U.S. also committed itself irrevocably to his regime in a way that blinded Washington later. As …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner safe for Democracy Part 9 @ 31:50
Reza Pahlavi funded
Kurdish People host_asserted
“For the Shah, the Kurds were but a card to play in his dealing with Iraq. After the October War, Tehran and Baghdad bridged some of their differences, leading to an agreement in March 1975. Simultaneously, the Shah halted his aides to the K…”
▶ The Colonels corner president‘s secret wars, chapter 15 cont @ 33:17
Reza Pahlavi attempted_coup_against
Mohammad Mosaddegh documented
“Some weeks later, Iranians monarch, the Shah, responded by attempting to dismiss Mossadegh, appointing instead another politician that was a British favorite. This action was done along with Julian Amory, who was a SIS covert warrior. This …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 8 @ 45:03
Mohammad Mosaddegh removed_from_power
Reza Pahlavi documented
“re-elected Mosaddegh as prime minister, tying the Shah's hands. The prime minister's national front seemed to have overwhelming support. London shifted its stance on covert action. Young ginned up a plan to overthrow Mosaddegh by meaning of…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 8 @ 45:36
Henry Kissinger ordered_assassination_of
Reza Pahlavi book_quoted
“with Reagan. So that should not be a surprise to anyone. They can say that they told him and that he ignored it. And who knows, maybe he did because maybe they knew that they were the CIA. Who knows? Helms, along with Henry Kissinger and ot…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Prelude to Terror Chap 23 @ 28:36
CIA installed
Reza Pahlavi host_asserted
“But the loss of their 20-year relationship with Iran, their only major trading partner in the region, Israelis felt that they had to find a way to get along with the new regime. A friendly relationship with Iran was a cornerstone of their e…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Prelude to Terror Chap 23 @ 49:07
Reza Pahlavi removed_from_power
Kurdish People documented
“For the Shah, the Kurds were but a card to play in his dealing with Iraq. After the October War, Tehran and Baghdad bridged some of their differences, leading to an agreement in March 1975. Simultaneously, the Shah halted his aides to the K…”
▶ The Colonels corner president‘s secret wars, chapter 15 cont @ 33:17
Reza Pahlavi removed_from_power
Iran host_asserted
“Because of some crackdowns and the Shah leaving Iran because he got overthrown, blah, blah, blah. And the original Afghanistan thing winding down. So they still had to find another area. And that is timing wise where you find this large sca…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Korea Final Day @ 1:04:38
Kermit Roosevelt recruited
Reza Pahlavi host_asserted
“Iran under a false identity. He met with the Shah and he is there on behalf of both Winston Churchill and Eisenhower. And he has at least five other CIA agents with him. And then, of course, they have all of the people working with them ins…”
▶ The Colonels Corner President’s Secret Wars chapter 6 @ 18:13
Reza Pahlavi removed_from_power
Mohammad Mosaddegh host_asserted
“The former Iranian commander by the name of Zahedi, Z-A-H-E-D-I, and he is the one that Kermit ends up working with. And they draft a decree that has the Shah dismissing Mosaddegh, even though technically that wasn't allowed. Minor technica…”
▶ The Colonels Corner President’s Secret Wars chapter 6 @ 20:23
Princess Ashraf Pahlavi recruited
Reza Pahlavi host_asserted
“shows up mysteriously at the exact same resort. And so they basically convince her to tell the Shah that he has to fire Mosaddegh, which then he does. And the Shah then leaves town and the coup begins. So you have…”
▶ The Colonels Corner President’s Secret Wars chapter 6 @ 21:24
Reza Pahlavi attempted_assassination_of
Mohammad Mosaddegh host_asserted
“He had gotten a tip off because there were still loyal people in the army that they were coming and he escaped out the back and they basically burnt the entire thing down thinking he was in it originally. And so he survives the assassinatio…”
▶ The Colonels Corner President’s Secret Wars chapter 6 @ 22:23
Alan Bristow worked_for
Reza Pahlavi book_quoted
“It ended on July 18th. One week later, Nixon traveled to London to meet a British citizen by the name of Alan Bristow, who had run a small helicopter fleet called Bristow Helicopters. He did that in Iran for 20 years, working for the Shah. …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Book Club Prelude to Terror Chap 25 @ 22:56
Henry Kissinger appointed
Reza Pahlavi book_quoted
“to get Congress to make us pay for it. And late May of 72, Nixon and Kissinger made the Shah of Iran an offer that he couldn't refuse, unlimited access to Americans' non-nuclear arsenal for return for a guaranteed flow of Iranian oil and an…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 11 @ 51:40
Chase Manhattan Bank financed_via
Reza Pahlavi book_quoted
“It is not surprising to find that Henry Kissinger later became chairman of Chase International Advisory Committee. No, it's not unusual at all. By 73, Chase Manhattan loaned Tehran $250 million that went to buy arms and weapons system purch…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 11 @ 53:09
Brown and Root funded
Reza Pahlavi book_quoted
“Cam Rambay contract, among others from Vietnam, and Iran, brown route, managed to glean an $8 billion contract to build a huge port facility at Shah Bahar without the annoyance of competitive bidding. They just called him up and said, hey, …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 11 @ 56:20
David Rockefeller funded
Reza Pahlavi book_quoted
“Chase Manhattan, Rockefeller and Kennedy mounted a campaign to grant the Shaw asylum in the U.S. for quote unquote medical treatment. The attorney who joined Rockefeller and Kennedy to handle the legal aspects and to weigh the case they had…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 11 @ 1:00:44
Reza Pahlavi member_of
Pahlavi dynasty caller_asserted
“so to speak and the arms sales were significantly ramped up during this time and of course the oil companies that came in had significant connections to Swedish bankers and when it comes to the Pahlavi, the last king before the revolution h…”
▶ Operation Gladio 101 Pt 1 @ 1:46:01
Reza Pahlavi received
Order of the Seraphim caller_asserted
“proposed to one of the sisters of the current Swedish king, and he received the order of the seraphim as well. Now, I published in the comments section a news clipping, a news article from the 70s, I think, with a picture of the king as wel…”
▶ Operation Gladio 101 Pt 1 @ 1:46:28
Reza Pahlavi financed_via
Riksbank caller_asserted
“It says the Shah of Iran in January 1974 personally gave clearance to a gigantic loan to the Swedish Riksbank, the national bank, basically, the government-owned, in quotations, bank. This is confirmed by Dagens Nyheter, the Daily News of S…”
▶ Operation Gladio 101 Pt 1 @ 1:46:57
Reza Pahlavi cooperated_with
Front for the Liberation of Iran documented
“This became active in October of 82. The Shah's son, Raja Pavlovi, who's all over the news lately, cooperated with this radio station and appeared on broadcast repeatedly. They were able to override two Iranian domestic TV channels on Septe…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 42 (44) @ 57:03
Reza Pahlavi funded
Kurdish militant groups book_quoted
“One of James Schlesinger's first moves on the covert action front, which Kissinger backed and Nixon approved. Kissinger reports the Shah's covert aid at that point was over $30 million. And of course, we're giving Iran money too. So it's ju…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 33 (35) @ 45:50
Allen Dulles installed
Reza Pahlavi documented
“find echoes in a later generation's embrace of American exceptionalism mesh neatly with that of Dulles brothers. But while Luce could only preach about the historic imperative of American power, Alan Dulles acted on it. Dulles' main mission…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 11 @ 31:50
Reza Pahlavi member_of
Soraya Esfandiary-Bakhtiari documented
“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
CIA covered_up
Reza Pahlavi guest_asserted
“The majority of them do not want the current regime, but they sure as hell do not want Pahlavi either. They do not. And you have Pahlavi living right next, you know, a stone's throw away from CIA, just waiting, just waiting for the CIA to r…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup Venezuela Part 15 Final @ 1:32:29
John F. Kennedy funded
Reza Pahlavi host_asserted
“And basically making it into more of a democracy and not a monarchy. And he basically said that I'm only going to give you U.S. aid if you do these changes. So that you look less like a dictator and more like a democracy. So the Shah manipu…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO - CHAPTER 60 - 'CIA MOSSAD SO'AK SHAH MULLAHS IRGC' - EP @ 14:03
Richard Helms laundered_money_for
Reza Pahlavi book_quoted
“The lack of warning could be blamed in part on the unwillingness of the Shaw's closest friend, Richard Helms, who in and of himself is DIA, to face reality. In addition, Helms and his associates had made money off the Shaw in the weapons de…”
▶ Operation Gladio Prelude to Terror Chapter 20 @ 14:50
CIA installed
Reza Pahlavi host_asserted
“And the same thing with the Shah. If you become so bad that they know they're not going to be able to control the sheep in the country, that they're going to rise up, they'll just overthrow the government that they installed and start anew.…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Cocaine Death Squads and War on Terror Part 4 @ 1:17:57
Reza Pahlavi installed
Iran host_asserted
“And then they weren't happy with that. And then he was going to nationalize. He wanted to, the Shah wanted everything nationalized, but that's where the colonialists didn't want it. He ended up becoming, partnering up with someone else that…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Hidden Terrors by AJ Langguth Part 7 @ 1:24:32
Allen Dulles spied_on
Reza Pahlavi host_asserted
“the Persian industrialist who owned the fourth floor suite to make it available to the royal couple was keeping the Shah under careful care. The Iranian monarchs found their accommodations to their liking. It was very luxurious. The grandeu…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 11 @ 4:21
Chase Manhattan Bank financed_via
Reza Pahlavi host_asserted
“Chase Chairman David Rockefeller presented to the Shah with a hunting rifle and bought up Iranian art. Soon, Chase had a 35% share of the Industrial Credit Bank of Iran. Bankers flocked to the Hilton and Intercontinental Hotels in Tehran an…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO - CHAPTER 60 - 'CIA MOSSAD SO'AK SHAH MULLAHS IRGC' - EP @ 25:06
Norman Schwarzkopf Sr. appointed
Reza Pahlavi host_asserted
“is the one that came in and basically convinced the Shah to go along with it. And he's the one that set up the Savak, which is kind of their secret police. So Iran at the time was a puppet government of the CIA too. So anybody else have any…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Angola, Portugal and arms dealers @ 1:17:25
Richard Shackley targeted_for_regime_change
Reza Pahlavi book_quoted
“Wilson had no hint that he was a suspect in the Orlando Latier bombing or that he was under any investigation beyond a minor CIA internal issue. Complicating all of this was the divided loyalties inside the CIA with the old boys versus the …”
▶ Operation Gladio - Prelude to Terror Chapter 15 @ 38:17
William Colby targeted_for_regime_change
Reza Pahlavi book_quoted
“to Egypt and Israel, while Helms, the Cord, and von Marbog had huge personal investments in the Shah's regime. As for Wilson, he was basically dedicated to making money. He wasn't loyal to anybody. His attitude was to carry out whatever he …”
▶ Operation Gladio - Prelude to Terror Chapter 15 @ 38:44
Reza Pahlavi headed
SAVAK guest_asserted
“does not serve the people of Iran that have been there their entire lives and, frankly, been fed propaganda by the regime or that are old enough that they remember how bad Fatavi's father was. And the Savak was. And the Savak, yes, exactly.…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup Venezuela Part 15 Final @ 1:32:55
Reza Pahlavi ordered_assassination_of
Robert Embry host_asserted
“historians believe that Raja Khan, then the prime minister, orchestrated the entire thing in order to declare martial law to consolidate his power. The incident highlighted the brigade's role as a tool of political control capable of acting…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO - CHAPTER 60 - 'CIA MOSSAD SO'AK SHAH MULLAHS IRGC' - EP @ 7:18
France installed
Reza Pahlavi host_asserted
“that a non-Western friendly guy is going to be given safe haven in France and then in the quote-unquote revolution in Iran be installed as the new leader of this supposedly markedly different government from the Shah, when in fact we...…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Deep Dive into @AAnon55_ video post 1030 ET @ 1:24:14
Standard Oil funded
Reza Pahlavi host_asserted
“What's going on in Iran at the time? Well, Standard Oil is trying to get the concession for the Iranian oil. So it's very important that they orchestrate this chaos in order to try to drive the Shah into giving them the concession. So they …”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO - CHAPTER 60 - 'CIA MOSSAD SO'AK SHAH MULLAHS IRGC' - EP @ 9:47
CIA overthrew
Reza Pahlavi host_asserted
“When the Shah became too difficult, the CIA overthrew him. And this is like the fourth person that I've read this about. I'm going to have to go back and do some further study on this because this is the fourth time I've come across the acc…”
▶ Operation Gladio and a look back at 9_11 @ 53:36
Mentions (120)
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the Shah's son, the guy who thinks he's going to take over Iran today, and business partner with Lan Benson, the senator's son. Jim Bath was also very good friends with George W. Bush and borrowed from Lamar Savings and Mainland Savings. An…
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And like Nasser, Saddam considered himself an Arab nationalist. Even though he was a hardliner on Israel, he demonstrated flexibility to the U.S. He had been in touch with the CIA since the 1960s and was considered an up-and-coming asset. S…
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The Israelis had been secretly selling weapons to the Shah's regime for years. Israel selling weapons to Iran and had no desire to give it up. According to Sarkis, so the entire Middle East became a balancing act.…
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American night vision technology sold to Iran after the Shah had left power. Sarkis vowed to find the same technology for the Iraqi fleet of tanks. According to Sarkis, he contacted Kamal Adem, who suggested that the devices could be export…
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so to speak and the arms sales were significantly ramped up during this time and of course the oil companies that came in had significant connections to Swedish bankers and when it comes to the Pahlavi, the last king before the revolution h…
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It says the Shah of Iran in January 1974 personally gave clearance to a gigantic loan to the Swedish Riksbank, the national bank, basically, the government-owned, in quotations, bank. This is confirmed by Dagens Nyheter, the Daily News of S…
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that seems to have been going on in the Nixon and Ford administrations between advocates of like a full Saudi Arabia tilt as opposed to an Iran tilt. And Cooper makes the argument, I guess, that, you know, Nixon and debatably Kissinger, alt…
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our Desert Storm General Schwarzkopf's dad that had helped set up the SAVAK for Iran because he had been stationed there. He knew everything about Iran, very familiar with it. And so he had been hired by the U.S. government when we were sup…
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in January, Iran had established a Muslim state after overthrowing the Shah. So you have, again, the Islamic extremists on both sides, all backed by the United States. And the one country that's not that will soon become that, and we funded…
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and install their own government in order to proceed with the pipeline, which, of course, we know they do that all the time. A somewhat similar situation arose in 1953 when, of course, he's talking about the overthrow of Mossadegh, which, a…
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When the Shah became too difficult, the CIA overthrew him. And this is like the fourth person that I've read this about. I'm going to have to go back and do some further study on this because this is the fourth time I've come across the acc…
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of Iran, they basically overrun the palace. He gets away. He gets locked up for the rest of his life under house arrest. And they basically reinstate the Shah, who was part of the whole coup to begin with. And if you remember, that's when I…
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is the one that came in and basically convinced the Shah to go along with it. And he's the one that set up the Savak, which is kind of their secret police. So Iran at the time was a puppet government of the CIA too. So anybody else have any…
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What happened in the Middle East is that they were supporting dictators like Mubarak, the Shah of Iran. They supported Iraq when they were doing the regime change for Saddam Hussein. They also supported the Saudi royal family, which of cour…
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That is their secret fleet. That's their intelligence apparatus. It's their CIA. So one of the continuities, which is why I know that the mullahs were no different than the Shah. Careful with that word, Colonel. You're going to hit the algo…
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So you guys have heard me oftentimes speak about how the CIA always has the next iteration. If they control the dictator in charge, which was what the Shah was, and you'll see all of those photos popped up on social media. Oh my God, look h…
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They got their property stolen. They lived in squalor. That's what was happening in Iran under the Shah. The Shah had a secret police force that was the same as Pinochet's Chile, as Peron in Argentina. The Sabah, there was one political par…
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That's yesterday. Yes. Yeah. So if you look at the SABAC's creation, a couple of years after the Shah is put back in power by the CIA and MI6 and Mossad, you have the iteration of the creation of the SABAC by all of these same intelligence …
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The Savak is their network. When the Mullahs took over, do you know what, you would assume that if they're these radical Islamic crazy people, they would want nothing of anything that had been set up in the previous administration under the…
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However, we're not streaming to the backup channel. So I'll have to do the replay on those and kind of figure out later why that's not working. But the two primary channels were there, Colonel. So I'm pretty happy about that. So do us a sol…
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the guy that we know, Shah's reign. It was modeled after the Russian Kazakh cavalry units. It was created to modernize and strengthen Persians' military, and it was done in coordination with Russia. The brigade was founded under a guy by th…
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The brigade suppressed tribal uprisings, especially in the northern part of Iran, and it basically was used to guard primarily the Shah at the time. And again, this is not the Shah that we think of. It was his predecessor. During the Persia…
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saw it being commanded by an outside force, and they didn't like it. After the Russian Revolution in 1917, the Russian influence basically went away because they weren't there. By 1920, Persian officers, including Raja Khan, who is Pahlavi,…
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saw it being commanded by an outside force, and they didn't like it. After the Russian Revolution in 1917, the Russian influence basically went away because they weren't there. By 1920, Persian officers, including Raja Khan, who is Pahlavi,…
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took command of this elite unit. Raza Khan, the Shah that we know, a brigade officer, used the unit to consolidate power. In 1921, he led a coup with the brigade's support, becoming first the minister of war and later the prime minister. So…
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took command of this elite unit. Raza Khan, the Shah that we know, a brigade officer, used the unit to consolidate power. In 1921, he led a coup with the brigade's support, becoming first the minister of war and later the prime minister. So…
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Welding-Kassak group, meaning the elite forces, participated in the assault during a religious riot. So basically, they had infiltrated a religious jackboot rebellion against the Shah, and they attacked the senior vice consul, Robert Embry.…
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historians believe that Raja Khan, then the prime minister, orchestrated the entire thing in order to declare martial law to consolidate his power. The incident highlighted the brigade's role as a tool of political control capable of acting…
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historians believe that Raja Khan, then the prime minister, orchestrated the entire thing in order to declare martial law to consolidate his power. The incident highlighted the brigade's role as a tool of political control capable of acting…
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in order to consolidate his power. He declares martial law, so basically he's now living as a dictator royal. After Raja Khan becomes Raja Shah Pravlavi in 1925, the brigade was integrated into a new imperial Iranian army. As he sought to m…
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in order to consolidate his power. He declares martial law, so basically he's now living as a dictator royal. After Raja Khan becomes Raja Shah Pravlavi in 1925, the brigade was integrated into a new imperial Iranian army. As he sought to m…
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and transformed itself into his personal secret police. The significance of this is that it became a key instrument of power, first for the Qajar regime and then for Raja Khan. Its loyalty and effectiveness made it a kingmaker in the early …
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and transformed itself into his personal secret police. The significance of this is that it became a key instrument of power, first for the Qajar regime and then for Raja Khan. Its loyalty and effectiveness made it a kingmaker in the early …
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Pahlavi dynasty, which ruled Iran until 1979. Its integration into the modern Iranian army marked a shift from it being kind of like an elite secret police into infiltrating the entire military infrastructure. And so it's important to talk …
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Pahlavi dynasty, which ruled Iran until 1979. Its integration into the modern Iranian army marked a shift from it being kind of like an elite secret police into infiltrating the entire military infrastructure. And so it's important to talk …
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What's going on in Iran at the time? Well, Standard Oil is trying to get the concession for the Iranian oil. So it's very important that they orchestrate this chaos in order to try to drive the Shah into giving them the concession. So they …
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Raja Pahlavi's government with advisory missions while the Standard Oil is trying to renegotiate and get part of the concession. It doesn't work. The predecessor to BP has the concession. They've had the concession the entire time. Why is t…
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Raja Pahlavi's government with advisory missions while the Standard Oil is trying to renegotiate and get part of the concession. It doesn't work. The predecessor to BP has the concession. They've had the concession the entire time. Why is t…
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just approved a 50-50 concession. So Mosaddegh, having been left with the remnants of the Shah's evil regime using his secret police force that I just described to you how they got it, had no education, no hospitals, no nothing for the comm…
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You know, so he's overthrown in 53. Kennedy comes in, Mossadegh was, and the Shah is basically put back in power. Kennedy tried pushing the Shah to make reforms because he's well aware of him using the secret police. And he basically pushed…
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And basically making it into more of a democracy and not a monarchy. And he basically said that I'm only going to give you U.S. aid if you do these changes. So that you look less like a dictator and more like a democracy. So the Shah manipu…
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if the Shah didn't straighten up. Kennedy's public rhetoric, such as his 1962 toast to the Shah and messages congratulating him on the success of the White Revolution memorandum, which he basically did a little bit of, but not a lot of. He …
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And the advice of modernization theorists like Walt Ristow, who worked in the State Department, suggests that he was very aware of what the Shah was doing and that the U.S.'s role in creation of the SAVAK, which we're going to get to in a s…
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This financial assistance had not previously been known until some recently declassified information came out. On the make or break day of August 19th, Khashoggi was critical, said Milani. On that day, Khashoggi's forces were out in full fo…
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Wherever the four horsemen, ExxonMobil, Chevron, Texaco, BP Amoco, and Royal Dutch Shell Gallop, the CIA is close behind. I would argue they're in front. Iran was no exception. By 1957, the company, as intelligence insiders know the CIA, cr…
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In 1963, when JFK was assassinated, Savak chief Hassan Akraban, P-A-K-R-A-B-A-N, joined the Shah in Tehran to celebrate Kennedy's assassination. The CIA, MI6, and Mossad supported 30 paramilitary groups in Iran and provided support to Shah …
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Popular anger towards Big Oil, the Shah, in his new police state resulted in mass protests. The Shah dealt with the demonstrations with brutality, with a wink and a nod from Langley. From 1957 to 79, Iran housed 125,000 political prisoners.…
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Four, the director of Amnesty International declared that no country had a worse human rights record than Iran under the Shah. The CIA responded by increasing its support for the Savak. A small group of elite families close to the Shah assu…
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B-A-K-H-T-I-Y-A-R-E. And equable E-Q-B-A-L families were part of this tiny aristocracy that blossomed under the Shaw. And they owned thousands of acres of farmland through corrupt land deals, just like we saw in Latin America. Pistachio gro…
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who flocked to Tehran where they were awarded with tax holidays, exemptions on taxes, and low-interest U.S. tax dollar-funded loans from the Export-Import Bank. In 1971, the Shah held an extravagant coronation to celebrate the 2,500th anniv…
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Chase Manhattan insider John McCloy. Who's John McCloy? John McCloy was the civilian governor of Germany post-World War II that oversaw the creation of Operation Gladio. Also there was George Ball, a longtime State Department person who was…
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This operation, executed by former SAVAK operatives now operating under the Mullah regime, demonstrate how quickly the new regime had repurposed the SAVAK and continued to use it. Historical records show SAVAK's counterintelligence officers…
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He says that the Kennedy's assassin went under the pseudonym of Ali Akhman, A-H-M-A-N-D, and worked for the Iranian intelligence under the Shah of Iran, who had recruited Sirhan as part of the plot. Did you know that Sirhan was from the Mid…
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Yeah. Yeah. OK. So according to Morrow, the Kennedy had become the enemy of the Shah, who had been installed in power with the CIA back coup when a Senator John F. Kennedy uncovered the Shah's misuse of USAID funds and launched an attack on…
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Bobby Kennedy subsequently snubbed the Shah when he bypassed Iran on a goodwill trip around the world. And Kennedy threatened to cut off all aid after his election. So RFK is running in the 1968 presidential election. And his primary Republ…
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primary in California, which was basically his last step to locking up the nomination. The night he won, he was assassinated. So when JFK was assassinated, the Shah privately was delighted. And we already read that in another article that t…
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Gadari, the Shah's liaison to the U.S. mafia, said that the mob claimed with Nixon as president, the Shah would be in a position to eventually raise oil prices, then with U.S. backing, control the whole Middle East. However, if Kennedy won,…
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And I'm going to spell that R-A-F-I-Z-A-D-E-A-D-E-H. Sorry, the head of SAVAK, the CIA unit, which was the Shah's secret police. Oh, and by the way, by this time, Mossad was also training SAVAK. Just saying. The Shah's secret police that wa…
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It is part and parcel of everything that we've uncovered to include the Office of Public Safety. Every element of every one of these coups. So anybody that tells you something significant happened in 1979, laugh at them. Laugh at them. Beca…
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Because of some crackdowns and the Shah leaving Iran because he got overthrown, blah, blah, blah. And the original Afghanistan thing winding down. So they still had to find another area. And that is timing wise where you find this large sca…
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So given that, I want to go read what he posted in the thread. This post is very interesting because it's talking about the Richie Boys' involvement in Iran. He talks about something called Project Eagle, the covert plan to provide medical …
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So his cousin, Archibald Roosevelt, is also involved in Iran. Isn't that interesting? And they're all Ritchie boys. Did anybody know that? So this was the code name. Okay, so they're talking about Operation Ajax was the code name for the 19…
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and got rid of Mossadegh, the actually elected prime minister of Iran, all because he nationalized the oil industry so they could get more than 14 cent of the profit of every dollar because the other 86 was going to British Petroleum. Cartw…
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warm, fuzzy garbage. And of course, nobody in the military industrial complex wants peace. You're not allowed to talk about that because you destroy them if you do that. So within a couple of months of these Soviet talks, we all of a sudden…
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which the CIA had gotten tired of working with him anyway. He was getting a little too big for his britches. So they didn't really care if someone overthrew him because keep in mind, the only reason the Shah was in charge of Iran at the tim…
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Wilson had no hint that he was a suspect in the Orlando Latier bombing or that he was under any investigation beyond a minor CIA internal issue. Complicating all of this was the divided loyalties inside the CIA with the old boys versus the …
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to Egypt and Israel, while Helms, the Cord, and von Marbog had huge personal investments in the Shah's regime. As for Wilson, he was basically dedicated to making money. He wasn't loyal to anybody. His attitude was to carry out whatever he …
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were then passed out to the names of various members of the Saudi family, including Prince Turkey, Wilson's old benefactor. Wilson foolishly wrote Dennis Wilson's coup attempt off as Middle East fever. In fact, Ed Wilson was in the middle o…
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to install a dictator and walk away. They maintain the involvement and already have picked out the next stooge that they're going to install in the government. Turner and Carter were surprised almost on a daily basis with darker news from I…
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Again, a lot of people believe that the fall, the quote unquote fall of the Shah was all planned as well, that he had outlived his usefulness, the installation of the Ayatollah Khomeini, the October surprise that eventually comes that ends …
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as demonstrated by history, especially with the Middle East and the inability to understand what was going on. Carter's own national security advisor, Brzezinski, told the author in May 2004 that the focus was not on Afghanistan or Islamic …
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and violence swept across Persia. The Shah fell sick with cancer and for billions and for all of the billions that the U.S. has spent arming him to keep him in power, all of that supposedly was for naught because now all of the weaponry had…
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The lack of warning could be blamed in part on the unwillingness of the Shaw's closest friend, Richard Helms, who in and of himself is DIA, to face reality. In addition, Helms and his associates had made money off the Shaw in the weapons de…
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Just let me go ahead and tell you that. The people funding that assassination school was the CIA, but they're not going to tell you that in a book with material from the CIA. Wilson was sending both Chi-Chi Quintero, Miami's post office bos…
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his associates in the Savak. And again, the Savak is a creation of the West, namely General Schwarzkopf's dad. Wilson supplied them with information and the Savak had began a worldwide program of assassinations. Huh. Are we supposed to beli…
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Iranian revolution, the fact that the Shah was in jeopardy, Shackley and his associates made Carter look like a fool. The Billy Carter affair handled by Clines on the American end made the president look out of control. So in other words, y…
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drugs, weapons, and that type of thing. According to Klein's, Yitzko's came from an idea that he had to use the connections of Sikord and von Marburg had with the Shah of Iran to be appointed a shipping agent for all U.S. military assistanc…
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their intel and counterintelligence operations against the Soviets. Now, keep in mind, we had couped the Iran and got rid of Mosaddegh and installed the Shah back, right? So he's going in there. He would have served there with Schwarzkopf's…
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It ended on July 18th. One week later, Nixon traveled to London to meet a British citizen by the name of Alan Bristow, who had run a small helicopter fleet called Bristow Helicopters. He did that in Iran for 20 years, working for the Shah. …
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Bristow had lobbied for a British strategic air service operation to help him get all of his helicopters back, which had been impounded once Iran was taken over when they kicked the Shah out. When the revolutionaries relented and returned h…
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And the same thing with the Shah. If you become so bad that they know they're not going to be able to control the sheep in the country, that they're going to rise up, they'll just overthrow the government that they installed and start anew.…
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I am one of the people that do not agree that there was a complete change of authority in Iran. I believe that the Shah was a very evil person. His thwarting of the rest of Iran for the elite in Tehran and all of those people that post thos…
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Oh, the 70s, everybody was lovely in Iran. They weren't. The people in Tehran and a few of the major cities, which were referred to as the elite in Iran, did have modern conveniences. But that was at the expense of the rest of Iran, who did…
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The SABAC, that was basically the terror organization, as we saw the DINA in Chile and everything else. He was installed by the CIA after overthrowing Mosaddegh. So the overthrow of the Shah by the Ayatollah, who, by the way, just mysteriou…
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leave Iran, move to the U.S., move to Europe. And I joined a few of these spaces that had Iranians. They didn't like me. They didn't like me at all. Because I called them out on their bullshit. They were all pro-Shah, pro-Raza Shah, Iranian…
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The majority of them do not want the current regime, but they sure as hell do not want Pahlavi either. They do not. And you have Pahlavi living right next, you know, a stone's throw away from CIA, just waiting, just waiting for the CIA to r…
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does not serve the people of Iran that have been there their entire lives and, frankly, been fed propaganda by the regime or that are old enough that they remember how bad Fatavi's father was. And the Savak was. And the Savak, yes, exactly.…
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that a non-Western friendly guy is going to be given safe haven in France and then in the quote-unquote revolution in Iran be installed as the new leader of this supposedly markedly different government from the Shah, when in fact we...…
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They can't explain if the Shah was so great. Why did he let a concession with BP that gave BP 86 pennies of every dollar and the Iranian people 14 cents? Because he didn't need the fucking money because he was getting paid under the table. …
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I love the people that try to make the case that the Shah was the rightful owner and most today was the trespasser, except for he was actually elected and you had to coup him and keep him imprisoned for the rest of his life because he was s…
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how bad Iran is right now. Well, maybe if you hadn't put the Shah back in and created such a mess of it, you'd have never had the Ayatollahs, you'd have never had any of that shit. Maybe if you'd have just let it be a democracy, you know, w…
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is definitely part of an Iranian effort, the Shah, the family, because he's got the name in his handle. So he definitely is one of the agitators, if you will. But I don't know. I do notice the majority of the people that were in that space …
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This replaced the Nixon doctrine of relying on regional superpowers to maintain order, which had collapsed in the region with the fall of the Shah in Iran, which the CIA in the U.S. controlled. Seen from this perspective, Brzezinski's conce…
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Persian Gulf. And they didn't actually withdraw. They were kicked out. They were kicked out of almost all of the countries to include Iran when they tried to overthrow Mosaddegh in 1953. They later got back in when they reinstalled the Shah…
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And by the 1970s, they had actually done so by basically eliminating, like in assassination, almost the entire Corsican mafia crew. But I find it very interesting that they're talking about using Iran, because keep in mind, in 1953, we over…
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you know, some 20% of the revenue after the overthrow of Mossadegh from the British Petroleum. And we literally turned our backs on them. Not only did we turn our backs on them, with the Shaw back in office in charge, they actually attacked…
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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 …
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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…
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And then they weren't happy with that. And then he was going to nationalize. He wanted to, the Shah wanted everything nationalized, but that's where the colonialists didn't want it. He ended up becoming, partnering up with someone else that…
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The big thing was, is that he wanted it to be nationalized and, you know, profits going to the people of Iran. And it seemed like, you know, we had different ideas of Iran. It was Anglo-Iranian oil, wasn't it, Colonel? Yes, but my problem w…
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There were no dead sailors. It was all made up. Well, then you had, let's fast forward to after Vietnam, you had the fact that in Iran, they're saying that, oh, there's a huge problem. The Shah is suppressing freedom, and that white revolut…
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And we have this false now, the Shah of Iran becomes a victim of a false flag. And what the CIA does is it imports the Ayatollah Khomeini from Paris on a CIA transport. Nobody can dispute that. I mean, that happened. And therefore, we can m…
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this guy's very busy, provided office space for Reza Pavlovi, the late Shaw's son, who was known as Baby Shaw, and was in contact with the CIA doing that. He would also form a company with a former Air America pilot. He also owned stock in …
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where his sister, Jessie, had lived until her death in 1970. Mason co-authored a biography of Ball titled Confusion to the Enemy. Together, the two traveled all over the world in Mason's jet, rubbing elbows with Middle Eastern sheiks, the S…
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in case there was a shootout. But he certainly ran in the circles of the CIA, along with Raymond Mason. The next item on the itinerary was one of the most exciting and pleasurable experiences of their worldwide trip. It was a meeting with t…
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While visiting with his majesty, Mr. Ball confessed his regrets that he was not 45 years younger so that he would be around to watch the growth and development of the country. That didn't work out very well. Among the people he met in Iran …
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Belen replaced Ball's picture of the Shah of Iran in his office with his favorite Confederate generals, Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson. In 1988, St. Joe Paper Company paid $2 million to settle a racial discrimination lawsuit that charg…
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So they would hold the price of oil down and they would use that to reduce the royalty rates. And that would really, you know, that's really screwed over Iran in particular. Yes. And there were comments even from the Shah that basically sai…
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great acclaim as the man capable of saving the Democrat Party. But that was not to be. L.B. Rossi, author of Robert Morrow and his 1988 book, The Senator Must Die, suggests that Kennedy's assassination went under a pseudonym Ali Akhman and …
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had worked for Iranian intelligence under the Shah, which was set up by the CIA under Savak. Huh. According to Morrow, the Kennedys had become enemies of the Shah, who had been installed in power by the CIA coup when, as a senator,…
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John Kennedy uncovered the Shah's misuse of USAID funds and launched an attack on him on the Senate floor. Bobby Kennedy subsequently snubbed the Shah by bypassing Iran on a goodwill trip around the world, and Kennedy threatened to cut off …
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In 1968 election, he poured millions of dollars into support for Nixon. Alex Gadari, the Shah's liaison to the U.S. mafia, said that the mob claimed with Nixon as president, the Shah would be in a position to eventually raise oil prices. Th…
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However, if Robert Kennedy won, the Shah would be totally isolated from any further U.S. aid, military support, and would be censored worldwide. According to Morrow's hypothesis, the Shah ordered Colonel Manzur Rafzadeh, the head of the SAV…
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who was one of the financiers of the BCCI bank, had predicted to his friends that the Shah's effort to open up Iranian society would be fatal. He politely ignored the Shah's advice that the Saad family should consider making reforms and all…
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Kamal Adem saw. A colleague of Shackley's from Laos by the name of Ambassador Thomas Sullivan had replaced Richard Helms in Tehran in 1977. He, again, let me just say this, you've got CIA people serving as ambassadors. He was one of the few…
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with Reagan. So that should not be a surprise to anyone. They can say that they told him and that he ignored it. And who knows, maybe he did because maybe they knew that they were the CIA. Who knows? Helms, along with Henry Kissinger and ot…
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And at the time, it did look like that from the outside. In a matter of months, the island would begin falling apart. In mid-78, the Shaw-sponsored newspaper campaign against the Ayatollah Khomeini triggered riots in Qom, Q-O-M, that's the …
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The unrest spread to other cities. By August, the city of Esapan was placed under martial law. Then the protests turned deadly. Several hundred Iranians were burned to death when a theater was torched. According to Corson and Sullivan, the …
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brought him out of Iran, placed him in Iraq after the Savak. Hold on. I'll bring you back up, cousinette. So that's very, very interesting. And the fact that he was originally exiled to Turkey is very, very important because I sent you the …
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Just keep that in mind. I'm just giving you analogies here. Then, in October of 77, Khomeini's beloved son, Mustafa, was found dead in his bed. Because Islam does not permit post-mortems, the death of Mustafa remained a mystery. But many su…