THE PLANK AUGUST 6, 2009
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As the streets of Tehran demand freedom, a different group of Iranians
gathered in Cairo last week as part of an annual ritual to commemorate
Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the Iranian monarch deposed by the 1979
Islamic revolution. The Shah was granted refuge in Egypt by
then-President Anwar Sadat and died in Cairo soon after. Click here to read Sarah A. Topol's piece today at TNR.com about the surprising political undertones of the event, including her conversations with activists who are working for the return of Iranian monarchy.
2 comments
Amazing. I know that Shaholatry persists but the mawkishness of it is amazing. Yes, "the principals (sic) of nobleness, loyalty, and high values." Does that include the high values of torture and repression and the terror that the SAVAK induced?
- liberal reformer
August 6, 2009 at 11:27am
These folks remind me of Russian monarchists during the inter-war period, convinced that the masses would throw off their hated Communist oppressors and usher back the Romanovs. Of course, the Romanovs did ultimately achieve honor in modern-day Russia, but it took them 80 years to do so. And Russia is no closer to having a constitutional monarchy now than it did in 1918.
- wildboy
August 6, 2009 at 12:14pm