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REZA PAHLAVI'S NEXT REVOLUTION - Successor Story
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January 04, 2002
The New Republic
Reza Pahlavi, the son of the late Iranian shah, closes his speeches about Iranian democracy with a signature flourish: "This is a cause I believe in and am committed to see to fruition, even if it were at the expense of my own life." At public appearances, his plainclothes security force searches bags for bombs and stands over the crowd like guards watching the prison mess.
This isn't paranoia, which famously afflicted his father. Since Ruhollah Khomeini ascended to power in 1979, Iran's ayatollahs have methodically whacked their opponents. In 1991 goons slashed the throat and wrists of the 76-year-old former Prime Minister Shahpour Bakhtiar, using knives filched from his own kitchen. One year later a hit squad entered a Greek restaurant in Berlin filled with Kurdish activists, screamed, "You sons of whores," then sprayed the room with Uzi fire. In both cases, European investigators fingered the Islamic Republic of Iran. At least 80 exiled dissident leaders have been assassinated since 1979.
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Tehran's policy of murder
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January 07, 2002
The Washington Times
On July 22, 1980, David Belfield, a former Howard University student posing as a mailman, walked up to Ali Akbar Tabatabai, a former Iranian diplomat who had served under Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi, and shot him to death as he stood on the doorstep of his Bethesda home. U.S. law enforcement officials say that after the killing, Belfield, who had recently converted to Islam, fled to Iran, where the Ayatollah Khomeini's brutal regime gave him refuge. In a 1996 interview broadcast by ABC, Belfield, who had taken the name Daoud Salahuddin, confessed to the murder and brazenly said that Tabatabai (who had been perhaps the most eloquent U.S.-based critic of Khomeinism) deserved to die. "All governments kill traitors, and all governments, if they can, kill people who are making strong attempts to overthrow them," said Belfield. Asked if he regretted his action, Belfield replied that "no, I never lost any sleep over that incident."
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Judiciary Chief Denies Accusations
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January 07, 2002
Tehran Times
TEHRAN - Following questions about the nationality of the Judiciary Chief, Ayatollah Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi, Dr. Kazem Jalali quoted Shahroudi as saying that he has never had Iraqi citizenship and that all documents about his nationality proves the claim.
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IRAN OFFERS MILITARY AIR TRAINING
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January 07, 2002
Middle East News Line
NICOSIA - Iran's air force is offering to train combat pilots in allied countries.
Iranian officials said Teheran has presented the prospect of allowing its air force to train other militaries. They said Iran can instruct foreign pilots in combat missions.
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Hizbullah the source of PA-Teheran alliance
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January 07, 2002
The Jerusalem Post
HAIFA - War and politics make for strange bedfellows, and nowhere is this more applicable than in the case of the Karine-A arms ship, whose seizure has revealed an apparent alliance among Iran, Hizbullah, and the Palestinian Authority.
Ever since the war between Iran and Iraq, the Palestinians, especially their leader Yasser Arafat, had been persona non grata in the eyes of Teheran.
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Israel Displays Arms Seized on Ship (Sharon Uses Event To Condemn Arafat)
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January 07, 2002
The Washington Post
Israel, Jan. 6 -- Israel today put on display 50 tons of weapons seized from a vessel in the Red Sea, and Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said the cache showed that Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat was "a bitter enemy of Israel."
Palestinian officials continued to deny any involvement with the ship, the Karine A, and accused the Israeli government of fabricating charges that the ship was delivering the weapons to the Palestinian Authority. Hezbollah, the Lebanese militant group, also denied Israeli charges that it was involved in the arms shipment.
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Ogata to visit Afghanistan, Iran
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January 05, 2002
Japan Today
TOKYO - The government decided Friday to send Japan's special envoy for Afghan affairs Sadako Ogata to Afghanistan and Iran from Monday through Jan 16, ahead of a ministerial-level conference on Afghan reconstruction to be held Jan 21-22 in Tokyo, government officials said.
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Official comments on country's foreign investment needs
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January 06, 2002
BBC Monitoring Service
Shiraz, Fars Province, 6 January: Deputy Minister of Industry and Mines for Projects and Planing Jafar Eslami said here Sunday [6 January] that Iran needs 14bn dollars of investments annually to achieve the employment rate envisioned during the Third Five-Year Development Plan (March 2000-March 2005).
Speaking in an foreign investments seminar, he added that attracting investment by foreign investors and Iranian expatriates is the only means to garner such a level of investments.
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Quote from History:
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January 07, 2002
In 1976 a journalist by the name of R.K. Karanjia asked Mohammed Reza Shah
how he saw the world
in AD 2000. This is what he replied in a book called "The Mind of the
Monarch":
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