My latest in PJ Media: Amid all the high-fiving and champagne cork-popping that the establishment media has been indulging in over His Fraudulency Joe Biden’s so far successful theft of the 2020 election, The Times of London has sounded a decidedly discordant note, running a piece Saturday with the startling headline, “Trump had Tehran on […]
Video: Iranians celebrate World Cup victory by chanting “Reza Shah”
شادی مردم مشهد از بردشیرین تیم ملی فوتبال کشورمان دربرابر #مراکش و #رضاشاه گفتن درمیدان نمایشگاه #مشهد#روحت_شاد_رضاشاه#پدر_ایران_نوین#خاندان_ایرانساز_پهلوی#حامی_شاهزاده_رضاپهلوی_هستم #RezaPahlavi#IranRegimeChange#RezaShahTheGreat pic.twitter.com/DSeXMAzKrE — ?آرتمیس? (@Arrtmis59) June 15, 2018 As I explain in my forthcoming book The History of Jihad From Muhammad to ISIS (click here to preorder), Reza Shah, who was Shah of Iran from 1925 to 1941, […]
Hugh Fitzgerald: “Not Gaza, Not Lebanon, My Life For Iran”
On April 28, at the Azadi (formerly Aryamehr) Stadium in Tehran, the crowd that filled the stadium — it can hold 100,000 spectators — chanted the last thing the ayatollahs wished to hear: “Reza Shah!” “Reza Shah!” over and over again. This chanting was a declaration of longing, of wanting back the late Reza Shah […]
Robert Spencer in PJ Media: Why Are the Iranian Protesters Islamophobes?
Criticizing sharia? What a bunch of bigots. My latest in PJ Media: “We should have an Iranian republic, not an Islamic republic,” said one Iranian protester. “Islam cannot address our needs.” The protesters chanted: “We don’t want an Islamic republic! … Clerics, shame on you, let go of our country!” Some even chanted: “Reza Shah, […]
Iranians are Ultimately Protesting Sharia
What began on December 28 as local protests against high food prices in the northern city of Mashhad, Iran, has spiraled into mass protests consisting of some hundreds of thousands of Iranians in some two dozen cities, including if not especially Tehran, the seat of government. So far over 20 protesters have been killed and many […]
Robert Spencer: If the Islamic Republic is Falling, It’s Because of Trump
When one strong individual stands up, others follow. My latest in FrontPage: In 2009, Iran was swept by demonstrations, just as it is now. But at that time, the protesters were shouting “Allahu akbar,” and there was no indication that they wanted anything but reform of the Islamic regime, not the end of the regime […]
Iran: Protesters chant “Reza Shah, bless your soul!”
The Iranian people are chanting, “Reza Shah, Bless Your Soul” Seems Iranians want to return to the way things were before the Islamic Revolution, Obama… you putz! #IranianProtests pic.twitter.com/q0ty0isUcL — Boston??Bobblehead (@DBloom451) December 30, 2017 Reza Shah was the Shah of Iran from 1925 to 1941 and the father of Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, the Shah […]