Thursday, September 28, 2006

Shah in Finland

His Majesty Shah of Iran in an official visit to Finland in 1970: Watch Here

(h/t Sarbaz)

I can't understand Finnish language but could you, if you're familiar with it, let me know what these people speak about in the video? You can also see the commies protesting the late Shah of Iran during his visit. Shahbanoo has always been down to earth and gracious. Iran really misses the royal family...

17 comments:

Winston said...

Thanks for the translation... We disagree about his majesty and you are wrong about him too!

Winston said...

It's stupid to compare the late Shah of Iran with a butcher like Saddam. He insulted her majesty and had to be throwned out of course.

You know nothing about our royal family, so please keep your opinions to yourself. Thnx!

programmer craig said...

NBA,

I think you sometimes confuse Freedom of Expression with "Freedom to be a Jerk" - private citiznes are under no obligation to allow somebody to insult them without doing something about it :)

I'm waiting for somebody like "LibyaWarrior" to excercise his so-called freedom of expression to say that muslims should kill American Christians or some such, and then I'll excercise my freedom of expression to knock him on his ass :D

Anonymous said...

If that idiot communist bastard has gone on and become the foreign minister of finland I guess you've become the president! =)
BTW we can all make out who is a communist on that clip and who isn't.

Dear Winston, thanks for posting this clip. I really liked the last bit when they met Santa Clause, the Samii people, and the raindears! =)

Long Live the King!

Winston said...

No dude, You don't live in Iran, you are probably a neo-commie and you never had to live under Saddam bombs for 8 yrs. Yep, I know little about my royal family and Saddam and you do know better. Have fun with your dumb views!

Like I said, you commies have always played dumb and stupid. Keep it up becuz it makes us feel better and makes us strong in our fight against communists and islamist appeasers like you!

Winston said...

You are treated the way you deserve. I thanked you for your incomplete translation but it was you who STARTED calling our king names and I responded. Don't cry like a kid now!

Anonymous said...

Non-blogging wrote:

"By the way, Farah Diba visited Finland a couple of years ago promoting her autobiography. She presented it in the best bookstore in the country with a bunch of bodyguards surrounding her. After the official interview, somebody in the crowd asked her what the difference between her and Saddam's wife is. The bodyguards threw the questioning mind out.

Now, freedom of speech in action or then the question was too close to the point perhaps."

What an IDIOTIC comment/action! What does the Empress of Iran have to do with the wife of that lowlife murderer Saddam Hussein??!!! You communists make an excellent mockery of yourselves. If you can't appear civilized before foreign dignitaries or at least ask relevant questions you better sit at home reading the works of Marx and Engels dreaming of the bloody legacy of Stalin and Lenin!

programmer craig said...

Winston, NBA (non-blogging) is a good guy. He means well, trust me on that! I've had a lot of discussions with him on other blogs. I disagree with him a lot but he isn't malicious. I don't know enough to comment about the Shah one way or the other, I'm just saying NBA isn't the person you think he is :)

Maya M said...

Oh dear, we have a real fight here! And now I feel guilty to Non-blogging, because it was me who asked him to visit here and help. Winston, he didn't mean to hurt you, just expressed his opinion, and to Republicans royals are exactly as acceptable targets of harsh words as presidents because both are public figures and as such are not entitled to the sensitivities and privacy rights of ordinary people (it is quite another matter whether the harsh words are justified). You could instead explain why you admire the Shah and his family.

Anonymous said...

The shah and his reputation was manufactured by Carter et al. The shah was basically framed and set up by a bunch American advisors who gave him the wrong advice. The poor Shah should have never listened to them.

Resorting to this kind of tactics is as an old art form. What they did to Shah is very similar to what they did to Mary Antoinette which led to her beheading by guillotine and the brutal death of her 10 year old son in prison. They even falsely accused her of inces in the court which was never pursued by the court because everyone in the court knew that they have gone too far and it was too vulgar. They made her 10 year old son to falsely accuse his own mother of incest. It's amazing what humans can do to other humans.

Blackmailers made up Marie-Antoinette naughtiness

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060929/wl_uk_afp/britainfrancehistory_060929193241

Winston said...

It's okay but I didn't ask for his opinion on the late Shah of Iran. I asked if he can help with the translation and he started calling the Shah names instead of just translating the video.

Any ways, no hard feelings here at all

Chester said...

non-blogging -

You try to play the innocent, but let's look at what you did:
A translation was asked for. You gave very little translation and instead expressed your vitriol for the Shah and insulted his wife on a blog where those two people are very admired.
Not very nice of you.
Winston's first reply politely thanked you and disagreed.
Then you came back and insulted the Shah's wife again.
You were asked to please stop, but you didn't.

Now you go around complaining to others that you weren't treated very politely! Lol.
Give me a break! You started the antagonism. Don't go whining to others afterward that your 'help' wasn't appreciated. You really weren't any help to begin with as you didn't provide much of the service you were asked for.

Conclusion: You're a jerk

Anonymous said...

Non Blogging, don't be a jerk and don't ask for freedom to be a jerk thing here too!

Anonymous said...

non-blogging:

If a group of political dissenters funded by the soviets--as Shah's dissenters and political oppositions were--tried to overthrow the Bush adminstration or any other American adminstration, how do you think they'll be treated by the said adminstration?

Did you know Iran was occupied by the Soviets for a while and if it weren't for the Americans, Iran would have a been a communist country?
I recommend you read the book by William Engdahl, A Century of War: Anglo-American Oil Politics and the New World Order, © 1992, 2004. Pluto Press Ltd.

Winston and other ex-pats like us get so emotionally outraged that sometimes we become speecheless at the display of ignorance and utter injustices manufactured by vicious people with agendas...I think we're still in a state of shock...

I strongly urge all Iranians and non-iranians to read about the history of Iran, specially 18th and 19th century Iran in order to get a complete picture of just how backward we were as a nation (thanks to the akhunds and the Qajars) and how far the two Pahlavi kings (albeit not perfect) brought us in a mere 53 years. Our societal and political problems were not caused in these short 53 years. Their roots were deep. But the young people of the 1970's were tragically short on memory and long on idealism and unwarranted expectations. And today's generation of young Iranians pay a heavy price for it.

Chester said...

"The first derogative word in in this thread was by Winston,"

You came to the blog and your first 2 comments posted were to criticize and insult the Shah and his wife on a blog that clearly respects and supports them.

You can try to lie to yourself about what you did and your attitude in your first 2 posts, but everyone reading them can see for themselves.

As for your translation, you are the one who complained to others that you so galantly came to this thread to help translate something, which you really didn't.
I didn't criticize your lack of translation until after you used your I-just-came-to-the-blog to-help-translate sob story to others. You want people to think that you did something honorable by posting a translation and that you're the agrieved victim of impoliteness and hostility.
YOU started it. Read your first 2 posts again. If necessary, step out of your shoes and look at the situation from Winston's shoes.
If you still don't see what you did, you're hopelessly blind.

Sahar said...

Winston,

I have to agree with noon-blogging. You know I have always been a freind to you, and appreciated your friendship as well. but I always have told you that you are too harsh on people who do not aree with you. I think you should cool down a little my firend. Not everyone is a royalist and not every one admires the late shah. But they may be all for a democratic change in IRan. You do not have to agree with them on some points, but you have to and I mean that in capital letters "HAVE TO" learn to tolarate others' view points. IF, again in capital letters that is, you are going to advertise for a democracy and freedom of speech in yor blog. Otehrwise, it is much better to say that you are a royalist who is against the freedom of speech, unless it is something in the line of speech that you like and you agree with, which is more similar to what the shah was practicing as well.

I think we should all leanr better to get along, otherwise we may loose the few friends we may have in the blogworld. By few, I really mean a few, meaning that there are not enough....

This is said to you as friend, so please take it as one.

Winston said...

Sahar, I don't let any one insult the Shah