Arsalan Naamdar
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Entrepreneur | Independent Researcher on Middle Eastern & Iranian History
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For the "Reza Pahlavi is not clear enough with his instructions" people This was Khomeini in 1978:
Arsalan Naamdar216,891 görüntüleme • 4 ay önce
I genuinely try to always stay polite and respectful. But truly: Fuck Ana Kasparian. Fuck Cenk Uygur. Fuck TYT. Fuck Dave Smith. Fuck Scott Horton. Fuck all these people who immediately point to “Mossad” and “the Zionists” the moment a subject rises above their intellectual capacity. Fuck all of them. Vile, illiterate, and genuinely evil human beings. Ig @ itstalia___
Arsalan Naamdar140,302 görüntüleme • 4 ay önce
For those who do not know who Fereydoun Farrokhzad is. He was one of the most recognisable cultural figures of pre ’79 Iran. A TV host, showman, poet, and later a political dissident who refused to legitimise the Islamic Republic. From exile in Germany he used his programs and concerts to expose the regime’s mass executions, expose its leaders, and openly call for its removal. He had a real audience and real influence. That made him a priority target for the regime. He also openly rejected the MEK, condemned their Marxist-Islamist ideology, their involvement in the Islamic Revolution and their alliance with Saddam, and warned against replacing one form of authoritarianism with another. In August 1992 he was assassinated in his home in Bonn. His throat was cut and his body was stabbed many times. A method that later became synonymous with the regime’s chain murders of dissidents abroad. He was killed because he had a voice that reached inside Iran and he used it without fear.
Arsalan Naamdar81,742 görüntüleme • 3 ay önce
Great interview by Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi on ABC Australia.
Arsalan Naamdar50,213 görüntüleme • 3 ay önce
“The estimated age of this individual is 8 to 10 years old.”
Arsalan Naamdar56,980 görüntüleme • 4 ay önce
“Khanevadegi” (meaning “Family” in Persian) is a collaborative rap piece by artists from across Iran’s 31 provinces, created to showcase the unity of the Iranian nation. The artists wear black T-shirts featuring a map of Iran, with each province marked to indicate the region they represent. Never doubt the unity of the nation of Iran. These recycled talking points are the weaponization of false narratives used to push agendas, whether from the Islamic Republic itself, foreign actors, illiterate sons of former terrorists, or groups that seek to break Iran for their own purposes. None of those voices are seen or heard in this video. When it comes to the unity of the Iranian nation, they do not matter.
Arsalan Naamdar24,185 görüntüleme • 3 ay önce
Reza Pahlavi explaining the IPP / Iran Prosperity Project. The transitional plan, post regime collapse.
Arsalan Naamdar32,642 görüntüleme • 4 ay önce
Reza Pahlavi, for all intents and purposes, does not owe us anything. His family built Iran from zero. When I say zero, I mean zero. A weak, fragmented Qajar state, one in which women could not leave the house without a man. One in which Iran’s internal affairs were completely controlled by outsiders. One in which foreign armies seized our lands to feed their troops while half our population died of famine. A country without an army, without national infrastructure, without sovereignty over its own resources. And I can go on, and on, and on. In return, we Iranians repaid their blood, sweat, and tears with one of the greatest treacheries imaginable in modern history. His grandfather, arguably one of the greatest men in Iran’s history, his tomb was levelled to the ground. His father was forced to leave the country he loved more than anything in the world. One could say it was not his illness that killed him, but the knife we put in his back, the betrayal of a nation he had dedicated his life to. Reza Pahlavi’s friends and family who remained in Iran were murdered, one by one, at the hands of the regime WE enabled. An entire generation around him was hunted, imprisoned, executed, or driven into exile. His sister and brother, unable to bear the weight of exile and the destruction of everything they had known, took their own lives. Reza Pahlavi has the money. He could have chosen a quiet life, a life of comfort and distance, far from the insults, the threats, the endless character assassination. Instead of spending more than four decades on this path, he could have lived for himself and his family, free of this burden. Instead, he chose responsibility. He chose to stand for the very people who betrayed his family and became the cause of so much suffering in his life. What does he ask in return? Nothing. No throne has been demanded. No position imposed. He has asked only for a national process in which the Iranian people themselves decide their future. He has anchored that path in clear principles, precisely to prevent Iran from falling once again into chaos, fragmentation, and revenge. Yet even for that, he is criticised by so-called “Iran expert” podcasters who have never carried the weight of a nation on their shoulders, who say, “He does not want to lead,” “He is not your guy.” All while he and his family live under constant attacks, threats, and scrutiny on a daily basis. Despite all of that, his love for his people and his land overrides everything. He continues to fight for us. I want to say we have done nothing to deserve it, but the people of Iran have proven otherwise in these past weeks. They are no longer blinded by decades of propaganda. They are revisiting their history. They are correcting the lies they were raised with. They are openly calling his name in the streets, knowing the price that must be paid for it. They are awake to the mistakes of past generations, and they have reached out their hand to him. And he, despite everything, has taken that hand.
Arsalan Naamdar24,647 görüntüleme • 3 ay önce
Reza Pahlavi II has repeatedly spoken about the structural weaknesses of an overly centralized monarchy. He compares it to a game of chess. In chess, the king is the final piece. When the king falls, the game is finished. In a system where all power is concentrated in one individual, all responsibility and all blame are concentrated there as well. The most important figure inevitably becomes the most vulnerable point in the entire structure. He explains that after Reza Shah, the continuation of the monarchy was seen as the only realistic way to stabilize the country. Mohammad Reza Pahlavi was sent to study in Switzerland so he could return with modern ideas and democratic values. When he came back, he had to build modern institutions almost from scratch: schools, hospitals, infrastructure, the military, and a functioning state apparatus. Those responsibilities fell largely on his shoulders alone. Over time he became not only the main decision-maker, but also the main target for every failure and every grievance. That is exactly the problem Reza Pahlavi II highlights today. If a Shah is expected to be the central pillar of stability, is it logical or practical to place him at the most fragile point of the system at the same time? I genuinely wish that both supporters and critics of the Pahlavi Dynasty would take the time to listen to what these individuals have actually said, in the past and in the present, and understand the context in which they speak.
Arsalan Naamdar13,891 görüntüleme • 4 ay önce
Any nation or politician pursuing appeasement with the Islamic Republic is positioning themselves against the Iranian people. We will move past this regime. It’s not a question of how. It’s a question of when. Everyone knows it. You can stand with us now and become a long-term regional partner, or you can leave us to fight alone. Just don’t expect us to forget where you stood when it mattered.
Arsalan Naamdar13,751 görüntüleme • 4 ay önce
Daha fazla içerik yok.