Iranian Crown Prince Brought a Taste of Royalty to Lubbock
Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008 - The Lubbock Avalanche-Journal
Once upon a time. Wait a minute. That's no way to start a news story. Except, perhaps, in the case of this story, which is the tale of a West Texas city and its all-too-brief brush with royalty. In the summer of 1978, before the words "political unrest" and "Iran" regularly occupied the same sentence, Reese Air Force Base officials learned a special pilot was about to join the ranks of military trainees. Reza Pahlavi, eldest son of the Shah of Iran, already was an accomplished pilot when he arrived at Reese. According to news accounts, Pahlavi recorded his first solo flight at age ...
Not in Our Name
Tuesday, December 18th, 2007 - Newsweek International
Since the hostage crisis of 1979, a state of undeclared war between Iran and the United States-begun by the mullahs-has become ever more bitter and intense. Militant anti Americanism has become the central core of Tehran’s foreign policy, as its rulers have opposed the interests of Washington and its allies everywhere-most notably in the Muslim world. The result of almost three decades of hostility, exacerbated by Iran’s nuclear ambitions and its agitation in places like Iraq, Lebanon, Palestine and Afghanistan is that conflict in the region seems possible once more. Should war break ou...
Shah's Exiled Son: Don't Attack Iran
Saturday, June 9th, 2007 - Ha'aretz
PRAGUE -- Reza Pahlavi, the exiled son of the last shah of Iran, suggests taking Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's threat to annihilate Israel very seriously. However, he suggests refraining from military action against his country. That's not what scares the regime there," he explains. "What scares it are the opponents from within, who should be strengthened. An attack from outside could give this regime carte blanche to do anything, and even lead to a nationalist awakening that would bring into its camp people who do not belong to it now." Pahlavi spoke with Haaretz at a gathering in Prague of dis...