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The Return of the Shahanshahi to Iran: A Pipe Dream
An Effort to Reinstate the Nightmare of Shahanshahi or a Consolidation of the Rule of the Mullahs?
The Iranian people are not the only ones who suffered from the odious era of Shahanshahi; other countries and peoples in the region also endured when the West made the ousted Shah of Iran, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, an arrogant and provocative policeman of the region, sheltered by the West. Despite the Shah's dictatorship, tyranny, and despotism, he was unwilling to make even the slightest personal or familial sacrifice for Iran, and he failed to recognize the value of the throne upon which he was placed after his father was ousted and exiled from Iran. When the Iranian National Revolution took place, he took whatever wealth he could carry with him to cover the expenses of the luxurious life he was accustomed to, fleeing Iran without caring about what might happen to the country. This is the clearest proof of the illegitimacy of his rule, and it was not the first time he fled Iran during crises. Those who had protected him in the past broke his pen; he and his regime fell before his throne was toppled, and they refused to shelter him. Just as he divided families between fathers, mothers, and their children during his tyranny, he was also separated from his father while he was alive, and he was estranged from his own children even while alive. He did not realize with his dead insight that this world holds a debt to be paid, as a person carries their burdens in life and death, forgetting that justice is the foundation of power, and because he did not uphold justice, his reign did not remain. Every debtor must repay their debts; in this regard, Ibn Sirin says: "I awaited my Lord’s punishment for forty years for hastily calling out ‘Oh poor’ to diminish one of the poor, and when God willed and the time came and God’s command descended, one of the poor was among them."
To be a good citizen and a patriot wanting to change the dictatorial regime ruling Iran is a natural and legitimate matter, and your sacrifices for that purpose are in their rightful place. However, to come demanding your right to a throne or sovereignty that has no legitimacy or current existence while you are the son of the Shah, the owner of that bloody and dark era, and while you and your family are guilty of crimes against innocent people whom you imprisoned and tortured for their opinions, and others who were executed for the same charge, and others who were cold-bloodedly killed in the streets and squares during the February 1979 National Revolution that ousted the Shah and his regime, is another matter. What the Shah and his regime did to the Iranian people during his reign means that not a single Iranian patriot escaped his dictatorial regime. Therefore, how can the son of the Shah here demand from time to time his father's throne, a throne that was never legitimate? There has been no acknowledgment from the son of the Shah, in his decadent exile benefiting billions of the Iranian people, of any apology to the Iranian people or to the victims of his father’s reign, nor has he recognized the February 1979 Revolution. Today, he desires to sit on the throne of Iran for the scenario of despotism to continue from one producer to another... from his grandfather to his father, from his father to the mullahs, and from the mullahs to him, as if this people and what they possess is theirs to deal with as they wish.
Are those who are toying with the mind of the ousted Shah's son seeking to reinstate the nightmare of Shahanshahi or to consolidate the rule of the Mullahs?
Personally, I do not believe at all that the son of the ousted Shah of Iran wishes for his father's throne except in dreams that haunt him between himself, realizing they are merely pipe dreams. However, there is a parasitic climbing faction among Iranians and non-Iranians that aspires to his return to the throne of Shahanshahi in Iran. He does not see, in his moments of maturity, the idea of returning to rule Iran as anything but a return to the unknown.
The reality of what the son of the Shah is doing politically, which is imposed upon him, is nothing but efforts to consolidate the rule of the Velayat-e Faqih regime, no more. These movements are not new, and we have grown accustomed to them whenever the Velayat-e Faqih and its system feel suffocated, especially with the existence of close connections between the son of the Shah and the Mullah regime. These are not mere connections between the son of the Shah and the Mullahs, but an emotional bond exists between the Mullahs and Shahanshahi. In some events, when the heat rises between the Mullahs and the Iranian people uprising against
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