As we approach the 27th anniversary of the Islamic Revolution, I found it appropriate to mention some of the major achievements of the Islamic regime of Iran in the past 3 decades.
1. Execution, flogging, stoning... in the public
2. Mass killings of political prisoners
3. Assassination of political dissidents in and outside of Iran
4. Causing depression among the youths
5. Creating oppression inside the country
6. Sponsoring Int'l terrorism
7. Violation of human rights, big time.
8. Killing and imprisonment of journalists
9. Closure of vocal media outlets such as newspapers
10. Suppression of religious minorities
11. Destruction of Iran’s Economy and creating poverty
12. Increase in unemployment and crime
13. Promotion of corruption, prostitution and addiction
14. 1979 Occupation of the US Embassy in Tehran
15. Destruction of Iran’s agriculture sector
16. Promoting Islamic Fundamentalism
17. Creating conflicts with neighboring countries
18. Severe Inflation
19. Devaluation of Iranian currency 'Rial'
20. Making Iran an international “embarrassment”
21. Forcing Iranians to leave the country
22. Destruction of Iran's historical monuments
Of course this list is incomplete and the crimes of the clerical regime is unlimited!
I'd like to add more to this list and you may also leave me a comment on this and let me know if I am missing any thing and I'll add that later.
35 comments:
I think you should add brain drain (farare maghzhaa).
#21 doesn't count?
درود وینـسـتون گـرامی و سـپاس از احـوالپـرسیتـون، یـکـم بـهـتر هـستـم ولـی خـوب نـشدم هـنوز! و بـبخـشید که مـن فـقط آلـمانی بـلدم و نـمیتـونـم درباره پـست هـاتـون نـظر بـدم. شـاد بـاشید
You should also add ripping off and plundering the Iranian national wealth and resources and depositing them in their private bank accounts. According to Abbas Miliani, this government has 60 million dollar a day to play with. However, they are so incompetent in managing the economy that they have to "import" gasoline and natural gas(benzine and jet fuel) from other countries in the amount of 10 billion dollars a years. This is really painful because having so much crude oil, Iran should have the infrastructure in place to be able to produce it's own gasoline and gas. And these incompetent morons have the audacity to ciriticize the Shah. Another thing you might want ot consider adding is the staggering unemployment, abject porverty and hopelessness which leads to prostitution, and drug addiction.
عــجـــب!!! فـامیل از آب دراومـدیم ؟؟ بـعله هـمچین شـخصی رو میشـناســـم
چـشــم، ولــی از طـرف کــــی ؟؟؟
This article is a MUST READ. It says Iran is running out of oil in 20 years and many other informative data.
Why the West will attack Iran
By Spengler
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/HA24Ak01.html
تـبادل لیـنک بـا کـمال مـیل، اگــر انگلیسـیم نــم نکـشیده بـود زودتـر ایـنکار رو میـگردم :)ـ راسـتی
اگـر بـگم یـکی از کانادا سـلام رسـوند کافـیه؟
O.K
anjaam shod
have a nice night :)
Roozbeh, I am not a professional economist like you are but to my ordinary point of view, devaluation of our currency can be seen in a simple way:
1 USD= 70 Rls in 1978
1 USD= 9300 Rls in 2006
It is devaluation to me, big time!
The other points wouldn't be a big problem under a responsible government like the Shah and it could be solved in a faster pace but yes, inflation exists in all modern and developed countries as well and it is not only something happening in Iran but under the Mullahs it got worse.
But let me remind you that here I am talking about the Islamic regime not the previous ones.
So your point is not valid here.
Thanks
hello dear as you said this list is not complete but i hope it'd never been completed in the future
islamic republic is a disaster not only for iran and iranian but olso for world an humanity
How long are the apologist of this regime going to blame the Shah for their own incompetences and utter mismanagment of the economy? Who is responsible to fix the structural problem of the economy? The Shah from his grave I suppose....The structural problem of the Iranian economy as it stands today has nothing to do with the Shah. The Iranian economy has to stay stagnant and opaque because of the regime's corrupted ideology and the very existance of the theocracy is jeopardized if the economy becomes open and free. ...The Per Capita income of Iranians is only $7,700 per year. What is the Per capita income of the US $41,000 per year. The Kawitis have even a higher per capita income than the US. It's so pathetic to blame everything on the past instead of trying to identify the existing problems in the present.
roozbeh... if I understand correctly you are a Phd in Economy.
God saves us if people like you want to lead Iran tomorrow.
Stop apologising for the Islamic regime
Richard:
I couldn't agree with you more. He should return his degree to whatever college he attended and get his money back. lol
Mr. Roozbeh would you like to elaborate on your "alternative perspective". As far as I can see, no alternative point of view was presented in your post except justification and rationalization which perhaps unintentially gave the impression to the reader that you were trying to minimize or trivilize the curren state of affairs. Perhaps if you did communicate an alternative point of view applicable to the present situation, you would have found many receptive ears to listen and to learn.
It is as pathetic to blame everything on the present and do not see the roots of the problem
This regime has had 27 years to analyze, assess, and identify the root causes of many things economics or social but they have failed miserably. If you were a CEO of a small corporation and run your company the way the mullahs do, the board of directors would have fired your butt many moons ago.
And yes, you're right my remark about your degree was uncalled for and I do apologize. I was just trying to be funny. I had not seen your website before I posted that ad hominem. Judging by your posts on your website, you seem to be a worthy PhD Candidate and you will be an asset to any entity business or otherwise in the future.
BTW, I did my thesis on supply-side economics years ago. What is your area of research, if you don't mind me asking.
Lastly, I'm not a dude, I'm a dudette. Lol
Agreed. However, we were reviewing or appraising if you will the performance of the current regime and not the cause and effect relationship of their catastrophic failure. For a thorough analysis of that caliber, we have to go back at least a 100 yeras.
Dear Mr. Roozbeh: It's clear to me now that you're not a supporter of the regime. How could you be? you're too cerebral. lol
Stay warm.
Well, Winston, I give it to you, # 21 covers my point....
As for Rouzbeh's comments, I agree with him again! I think Shah's regime was also very bad for Iran. He was a dictator, and not even a competent one.... I had my father in Khomeini's prison and my grandfather in Shah's prison. Both for what they believed. So please do not preach for Shah's time. It is too bad. He was like any other dictator. Believe me, you couldn't live under his regime either. He would put people in prison, torture them and kill them. If you don't believe me as people who are older, they surely remember.
As for the economic situation, that seemed that was going well, but it was all the oil money. I know it is worse now that mollah' s are consuming all the money, but that time we didn't have a solid economy either... So I don't think we would have been in a better situation if Shah would have survived his tyranny.
God... pleas give him just a little think that dosnt has any relationship to BBC or CNN.
Sahar, The Shah of Iran wasn't a dictator because if he was, he would be in power today too!
And May I know what group your father or grandfather belonged to?
Roozbeh, The late Shah of Iran is a respected man among many Iranians and he tried to modernize the country and built a great country in less than 37 years and he deserves our appreciation.
I do not believe in whatever Media have said (and most of you believed) about his majesty's reign.
Nobody is denying that the Shah was a dictator. However, even in a democracy if one tries to overthrow a government, you will face server punishment, especially in the Cold War era. To evaluate Shah's performance as a leader one should compare the country before the Shah and after the Shah. Could he have done a lot more? Yes. Was he the brightest of the leaders? No.
If the Shah had done even a tiny fraction of the killings, torturing, and systematic brutalizing his dissidents and citizens, he would have still been in power.
Who has plunderd the National wealth and resources of Iranians? According to Forbes magazine, Ayatollah Rafsanjani is the 8th richest man in the world. Where did he get all this money? I invite you to read the article by the Forbes magazine below:
http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2003/0721/056_print.html
The brutality and the savagery exhibited by the mullahs pales in comparison to what Shah did in his time.
Some of my favorite quotes:
“True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.”
Dwight D. Eisenhower
An elder Cherokee Native American was teaching his grandchildren about life. He said to them, "A fight is going on inside me...It is a terrible fight, and it is between two wolves. One wolf represents fear, anger, envy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, pride and superiority. The other wolf stands for joy, peace, love, hope, sharing, serenity, humility, kindness, benevolence, friendship, empathy, generosity, truth, compassion, and faith. This same fight is going on inside of you and every other person too." They thought about it for a minute and then one child asked his grandfather, "Which wolf will win?" The old Cherokee simply replied..."The one I feed."
Iranians are Iranians whether they are monarchists, Mullah lovers, reformers, even if they are Basiji. You can't deny someone their identity just because you disagree with them or they are different because of their collective experiences. We need to see each other as humans with diverse backgrounds and experiences in life. We can't all be the same.
Ok pop quiz time. Who said this about George W. Bush in December 2001?
'This is not a monarchy...We've got a dictatorial president and a Justice Department that does not want Congress involved. ... Your guy's acting like he's king.''
I'll give you a hint: it wasn't a liberal, a Democrat, a peace activist, an anti-war protester or Fidel Castro.
Give up? It was actually Republican Congressman Dan Burton. And he wasn't alone. Republican Congressman LaTourette called Bush's actions a bunch of crap. Democratic Representative Henry Waxman said:
"An imperial presidency or an imperial justice department conflicts with the democratic principles of our nation"
Roozbeh, You sound like a Mullah. Sorry but you deserve this label
May be no one in your mullahcracy circles do not respect the late Shah of Iran but milions of Iran are in love with their late Shah.
Get a life dude and spend the mullahs money somewhere else
LOOOOOOOOOL
well, for some one waving the flag of the Islamic republic on his webpage, it is easy to bash the late Shah of Iran.
Btw, FYI I left Iran 1 yr ago.
So dont tell me what is wrong or right.
iranian people have respect for the late Shah of Iran until you and your mullah cronies want to say otherwise.
Over and Out!
I wonder if this Roozbeh is a member of NIAC or is in the States with the money given to him by the akhoonds to study in the USA
Dear Winston:
With all due respect, calling Roozbeh a "Mullah" was not very prudent. We need to learn how to agree to disagree. Even if he was a "mullah", which he definitely is not, we should not dismiss his opinion and alienate him from our discourse. I heartly resent "labeling" or "branding" people as this or that. It really doesn't do much for creating unity and consensus. It stifles discussions and it's ultimately, self-defeating.
I for one am sorry that he no longer is going to post on this site.
I can tell who sounds like a Mullah or not when I see one.
aghaye roozbeh shoma migi hich ki ala hazrat pahlavi ro nemikhad?
motmaeni?
in harfe shoma mano yade televisione mollaha andakht ye lahze.
Dear Winston: I know what you're saying. The flag on the website speaks volumes. However, in the spirit of unity and consensus building, we need not to alienate any Iranian who wants a democratic and secular future for Iran. Indoctrination and propaganda-fed beliefs can be easily dismantled through debates and discussion.
I hope you see the wisdom in what I'm trying to convey here albeit ineffectively perhpas.
I hear you
Maybe Ms Anonymous should start her own blog and invite the anti-Shah fellow there?
Mr. Anon.
Anyonymous:
I don't see anything wrong with being anti-shah or being pro-shah. We need to expand our horiozons and listen to each other grievances to resolve our issues.
On a different topic: That flag with the Arabic word "Allah" is nothing short of cultural genocide of Iranina identy. I don't think any Arab country would have ever allowed a Persian word written on their flag. It's truly embarrasing how the mullahs have sold us out to Arabs.
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