he was king of iran since........
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Reza Khan was proclaimed shah of Iran in 1925. He changed his name to Reza Shah Pahlevi and created the Pahlevi dynasty of Persia/Iran.\n\nHe reorganized the army, government administration, and finances. He abolished all special rights granted to foreigners, thus gaining real independence for Iran. \n\nThe Trans-Iranian Railway was built, modern education was introduced, and the University of Tehran was established under his rule.\n\nBy the mid 1930's, Reza Shah's had become a dictator in style and changed the name of his country from Persia to Iran.  \n\nDuring World War II, he sided with the Germans.  In 1941 British and Russian forces invaded and occupied Iran. Forced to abdicate in favour of his son, Mohammad Reza Shah, and he died in exile in Johannesburg, South Africa in 1944.
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This was the Ayatollah Khomeini
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For all we know the leaders of Iran are shilling for Bush and his Neocon buddies. maybe they are simply playing a part in the overall geo-political strategy of peak oil.\n\nDont believe the hype.
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the iran empire is near to 3560 but <Iran> is the oldest name of country in the world the kourosh name his region in3500 year ago Iran and it is came from the ARYA
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I would say that the Iranians do finally the "proper thing" and send Sistani and the likes in the basement of their masques where they reallyy belong. Vote a NEW reall Democratic or Republican Government, quit "chanting" Death to US and the West, "out of fear and stupidity", get A GRIP on their Country/Economy/Social issues, and then they may have a better life. They are polluting they-selves to death, while their miserable uneducated clericks are taking them down the path to Hell.\nTheir present "unwashed/unsaved" (MAYBE THERE IS REALL SHORTAGE OF SOAP and BLADES?) "I drive an old car" moron, is not the answer. He drives an old car because he does not like the Russian and Chinese models that's all.\nBTW they really should take a good look on his "overseas" accounts in other peoples names/....that would be a good start to find out just how much integrity this person really has.\nGet a grip Iran, or soon it maybe more late then ever to come out of it. They eat steak, while you and your empty belly can only "chant"....PATHETIC...just .....PATHETIC
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Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, also written Ahmadinezhad, (Persian: محمود احمدی‌نژاد ; born October 28, 1956), is the sixth president of the Islamic Republic of Iran. His term began August 3, 2005.\n\nMahmoud Ahmadinejad was born in Garmsar, the fourth of seven children born to an ironworker. Ahmadinejad and his family migrated to Tehran when he was one year old. In 1975, he ranked 130th in the nationwide university entrance exams. He then got his diploma and was admitted to the Iran University of Science and Technology in the field of civil engineering. He was accepted as an MS student at the same university in 1984 and got his doctorate in 1987 in the field of engineering and traffic transportation planning while he was the governor of Ardabil province.\n\nAhmadinejad was appointed mayor of Tehran from May 3, 2003 until June 28, 2005 when he was elected president. He is widely considered to be a religious conservative with Islamist and populist views. Ahmadinejad was a civil engineer and an assistant professor at the Iran University of Science and Technology before his mayorship.\n\nPolitically, Ahmadinejad is a member of the Central Council of the Islamic Society of Engineers, but he has a more powerful base inside the Alliance of Builders of Islamic Iran (Abadgaran). Ahmadinejad is considered one of the main figures in the alliance.\n\nElectoral platform\n \nMahmoud AhmadinejadAhmadinejad has generally sent mixed signals about his plans for his presidency, which some US-based analysts consider to have been designed to attract both religious conservatives and the lower economic classes. His campaign motto was "It's possible and we can do it" (می‌شود و می‌توانیم).\n\nIn his presidential campaign, Ahmadinejad took a populist approach, with emphasis on his own modest life, and had compared himself with Mohammad Ali Rajai, the second president of Iran—a claim that raised objections from Rajai's family. Ahmadinejad claims he plans to create an "exemplary government for the people of the world" in Iran. He is a self-described "principlist"; that is, acting politically based on Islamic and revolutionary principles. One of his goals is "putting the petroleum income on people's tables," referring to Iran's oil profits being distributed among the poor.\n\nAhmadinejad was the only presidential candidate who spoke out against future relations with the United States. Also, in an interview with Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting a few days before the elections, Ahmadinejad accused the United Nations of being "one-sided, stacked against the world of Islam." He has openly opposed the veto power given to the five permanent members of the UN Security Council. In the same interview, he stated, "It is not just for a few states to sit and veto global approvals. Should such a privilege continue to exist, the Muslim world with a population of nearly 1.5 billion should be extended the same privilege." In addition, he has defended Iran's nuclear program and has accused "a few arrogant powers" of attempting to limit Iran's industrial and technological development in this and other fields. In a question by a Shargh journalist about the release of political prisoners in case he becomes president, Ahmadinejad answered with a question: "Which political prisoners? The political prisoners in the United States?"\n\nAfter his election he proclaimed, "Thanks to the blood of the martyrs, a new Islamic revolution has arisen and the Islamic revolution of 1384 [the current Iranian year] will, if God wills, cut off the roots of injustice in the world." He said, "The wave of the Islamic revolution will soon reach the entire world."\n\nDuring his campaign for the second round, he said, "We didn't participate in the revolution for turn-by-turn government [...] This revolution tries to reach a world-wide gov
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I have known Iranians in the past. They were all very nice and good people who became terribly upset when the Shah was deposed and the ayatollah came to power. One was in the US on a student visa and he was afraid the mad mullahs would either imprison him or force him into their war against Iraq if he ever returned.\n\nThe people of Iran deserve much better than the tyranny of the jihadists and false preachers they are currently suffering under.
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Everybody hates him. The reform minded majority population in Iran hates him. The hardliners think he's a wuss & stupid for bringing the world down on them. Everyone outside Iran thinks he's insane & bringing the world to war. Personally, I think his timing could be better for us, but it's good to have a person that will force us to take action to remove the theocratic govt of Iran & let the reformers take over as they see fit. Unlike Iraq, it would be smashing the hardline military force & most combat power (equipment) then getting out & containing the internal fight that would make Iran & the world a better place when the reformers win.
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I would think so.  If you look at Iraq & Afgahnistan both occupied - you will see the two major borders of Iran.  I say that Iran was the main objective all along.  I also believe that this needs to be done.  Iran is bulding nuclear weapons under peoples lives in the city and openly telling the whole world that it is to be used on us and our allies.  They are not looking for peace - they are looking to settle their anger.  Iran isn't the beautiful country it use to be back before 79.  It is a place ran by crookit people who have had too much power placed in their hands and over power the rest.  It is a country that has a population of 75% under the age of thirty who also want us to go in.  Anyone of the country that has spoken against the government have been killed or hurt.  People live under constant fear - and that is the truth. Some act as though they are fine about living that way, but those are the first of ignorence.  They are usaully the ones that came against the Shah - and deep inside live with the regrets.  Yes - the time has come.
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Sala'm Aga / Khanum!\n\nDo you want to imply that Iran's case is similar to that of the Iraq during last days of Saddam when he was denying having any WMD and USA was insisting that he was lying?\n\nIn any case, there is a great difference in the analogy. Iran has been more-or-less positively identified by the IAEA to be moving towards a secret nuclear weapons program, as per circumstantial evidences its inspectors and 'monitors' has obtained.\n\nSo, in my personal view, the President of Iran Mr. Ahmedinezad is playing high-wire act and also brinkmanship with the West (not only with USA). I am a Muslim and I worked in Iranian Air Force for two years as civilian specialist and I have no ill feeling for the Iranian people.\n\nGod forbid, if Iranian people had to live the miserable life that of Iraq then it would be solely the present government of Iran that would be held responsible to ignore numerous warnings to refrain from its present belligerent attitude and sit with world community and sort out its differences across the table.\n\nInshaAllah we hope major catastrophe could be averted and Iranians can live and prosper and be the Malaysia of the Middle East!\n\nKhuda Hafez
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Back, when Jimmy Carter was President, Irananians, who overthrew the Shah,  took our embassy staff hostage.  That is because the Shah was a cruel dictator and the U. S. had kept him propped up for a long time.\n\nSome time later, Sadam decided to go to war with Iran.  Now Iraq was our friend.  The U. S. government supplied Sadam with all manner of potions with which to torment the Iranians, because we didn't like the Iranians because they overthrew our Shah, and held our embassy staff prisoner for a long time.\n\nNow, when Sadam stopped behaving, we knew what we had given him and had every reason to expect to find it there, maybe even new and improved.  After all, a lot of his scientists were educated in major universities right here in the U. S.  Besides which, we had a devil of a time trying to fight the war in Afghanistan.  We needed space for some bases in the middle east, and then, there was that oil....so, what excuse could we come up with???   Oh! Oh! I got it...remember that anthrax we gave him?\n\nUnfortunately, by the time we got there, the cupboard was bare and noone knows what happened to it.  Most folks say Syria.  I wouldn't doubt it.
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Sometimes the entire Iran situation looks like Iraq, the current Iranian president 9being an independent candidate) seems like a perfect target to be the next Saddam Hussein. \n\nPolitically, the US is pressurizing the opposition to join them, as it is the governing regime will definitely go weak and then like in any other progressing economy they will have their foot in the door to make sure that there is a well paved road for them to commute whenever they want.\n\nI think only time will tell what exactly is the major game plan here, but one thing is sure it is not going to be a smooth ride and eventually the US will gain something substantial.
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hmm? I just noticed that King Abdullah looks like he is putting on some weight.. his cheeks are a bit flabbier than they were a couple of years ago... anyways... (haha)\nI do agree with what he has to say...
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He Is The Game, He Is That Damn Good!  Screw The Rules! He Is The King!  He is HHH!!!!!!  The Best!!!!!  I Love Him!!!!
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A great man, the defender of peace and talk between nations and cultures. Did multi dimensional works in Iran. First and most important the economic, second the foreign relations,and many other important things. The question is why did people vote Ahmadi Nejad to office after Khatami. The answer is that the people of Iran want to have money in their hands, it doesn't matter for them if the economy of the entire country doesn't improve. Ahmadi Nejad came over and gave the people all the money that Khatami had collected in the Government's treasury. The money that was reserved for the case of an emergency and the improvement of economical projects. People didn't know that because Iranian broadcasting only supports Ahmadinejad and people in his campaign and does anything to decrease the popularity of Khatami's campaign.
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the usa gave him the wepons to kill iranians . iran had a demcractaly elected leader in the fiftys who was very populr but he wanted to nationalise it oil so the americans sent the cia over to sort him out then they put a puppet called the shah in power the people of iran revolted against him and a guy called ayatulla homeni came in to power he critised america for what it done in its country. the americans didnt like that so they gave saddam all the wepones he wanted so he can kill all the iranians for the americans.(and the iranians still want to be friends with the usa after all that) but the usa dont want to be friends they just want control over the oil because the world is at peak oil supply now.and who ever has control over oil wll have all the power .\n\nand the uk and the usa are still supporting dictators and tortures in central asia thats where all the oil is now but afganistan was the only thing standing in its way but now that has been sorted out . why do you think the ussr was fighting over a land that has nothing but mountains and heroin? .so they can lay a pipe line to the sea .in some of countrys in central asia the goverments are blatently killing its opposion politicans and human rights actavists . i live in the uk and a lot of people are showing evidence of this to our goverment but they are brushing it aside just like they did with saddam. even the british ambasodor to uzbekistan coplaind to the uk goverment about the torture he was told to shut up and got trandferred to a nother embassy. as long as you are freindly with the usa then you can do this. and they will give you all the wepons you need to do there dirty work.
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As I've said many times, I feel sincere fear and pity for the Persian people. (I know Iran is populated with many different races, but I just like to write the word Persian).\n\nIt's my understanding that a substantial number of the Iranian populace wishes to be free from the murderous, semi-psychotic Mullahs, and that certifiable former mayor of Tehran, Ahmadinijad.\n\n\nI pray that military intervention isn't necessary; additionally, I hope that the Iranian people themselves depose of the Theocratic Rulers.\n\nHU, and Putin, since Saddam's demise, have turned to Iran as their shared cash-cow. The money Russia and China lost due to Saddam's capture, has been replaced by doing business with Ahmadinijad. Weaponry and technical support, along with oil and natural gas, seem to be the binding links keeping these countries in a like frame of mind.\n\nFrance is just doing what they have always done--  looking out for their own interest. Chirac and Villapan (spelling) don't seem to give a damn about the Iranian people, or the rest of the world for that matter.\n\nThey too lost a lot of business when Saddam fell.\n\nThat leaves America, England, Germany and Australia.\n\nAs I said, I pray military steps are not required to solve this growing dilemma.