To The People of a Future Free Iran and to the Entire
World regarding BBC Propaganda
May 1, 2006
Los Angeles, CA
The April 29th BBC interview with
Ibrahim Yazdi, accomplice in mass murder of scores of Iranian
patriots during the Islamic Revolution of 1978-79, is yet another instance of
British complicity in the overthrow of the legitimate Monarchial government of
the Iranian Nation 28 years ago.
Yazdi was both the deputy and foreign minister of Mehdi Bazargan,
the Prime Minister of the Islamic Republic in Iran (IRI) regime in the initial
days of the Revolution of the Mullahs. It must be brought to historical
memory that Mr. Bazargan presided over a pseudo-referendum on March
30-31 1979 which was a fraudulent--although effective--effort at winning the
appearance of legitimacy for the IRI regime in the Western World.
This public election was conducted under
the coercive surveillance of the Guards of the
Revolution. Is it
any wonder that a purported 98% of the Iranian voting public voted "yes"
for an Islamic Republic in a context where a "no" vote constituted grounds for
incarceration, imprisonment, torture, and death?
Additionally, an alleged 23 million Iranians voted in this election in
1979---a transparently false figure given the fact that at the time, half the
known population of Iran of 36 million (18 million) was under the eligible
voting age of 15! Even assuming a 100% voter participation on the part of
eligible Iranians (18 million), there were over
5 million fraudulent ballots counted!
As for Yazdi, he was the head of one of
the Islamic "Revolutionary Committees," entitled "The
Guardians of the Revolution," and was an adviser
of Khomeini's at Neauphle-le-Chateau.
At the time, Yazdi was traveling on a United
States of America passport. Why? And how was this arranged? What was
the endgame for the West in being involved with this man?
One thing is abundantly clear. Yazdi is a
palpable liar in denying his direct role in the murder of dozens of
innocent Iranians and honorable members of the government of Shah Mohammed
Reza Pahlavi. One case serves as a microcosm for all the others--the
extra-judicial murder of General Mehdi Rahimi, one of scores of
honorable military officers in the Imperial Iranian Armed Forces. In this
particular case, Yazdi personally cut off General Rahimi's arms
before the execution's occurrence. The following picture should say
something to the BBC and the British government:
Ibrahim Yazdi
cuts the late general
Mehdi Rahimi's
arms before executing him.
In the picture above the late
general's
amputated left arm is resting on
his body. (notice
that the
general's
left wrist is missing from his left arm).
His amputated right arm is resting
alongside of his
body.
(notice the lower part of his right hand is
also missing).
One picture, as the English and the Americans say, is truly worth a thousand
words. Mr. Yazdi, and all of the participants in the Revolutionary Committees
who helped ensconce the IRI regime in power in Iran, are butchers and mass
murders on an exponential and independently documented scale as attested to by
Human Rights Watch and
Amnesty International. No one can
deny this. Even a cursory look at the ongoing news reports from
Iran Focus on the past and present crimes of the Mullah Regime (
www.iranfocus.com)
accurately depicts a power-thirsty cabal whose rule is based on extra-judicial
proceedings; murder; intimidation and incarceration; Islamic theocratic
control of the news media in Iran; and the sanctioning of murder outside the
boundaries of Iran itself, in the Middle East, Europe, South America, Asia,
and the United States.
And to the extent that the BBC provides an unchallenged forum for
international criminals like Ibrahim Yazdi to spew their venomous falsehoods
abroad on a global scale, it begs the next question: What was the
role of the British government and media in their direct involvement in
assisting in the overthrow of Monarchy in Iran in favor of an Islamic Republic
over a quarter of a century ago?
These Mullahs were brought to power by sinister forces in the both
Britain and the United States, specifically identified by
William Bowles in Countercurrents at
http://www.countercurrents.org/iran-bowles080206.htm As I stated for
the public record back in February when contradicting the far-left propaganda
of
Ramsey Clark regarding the latter's role in continuing to
support the enemies of the Persian Nation and Monarchy,
this record of
betrayal inscribed by Bowles must be repeated and retold. It can never be
forgotten. The historical responsibility for this horror must be
chronicled for eternity past. When understood in its proper context, decent
Americans and Europeans will recognize their moral imperative to support
freedom-loving Iranians around the world in the achievement of victory over
the Mullahs, and the reclamation of their homeland in this righteous struggle
with radical evil.
These same Americans and Europeans must see Ibrahim
Yazdi, Ramsey Clark, the BBC, and the entire core of the political
constituency which destroyed Iran through the introduction of Islamic
Theocracy for what they are: an element of radical evil which must
be exposed--and expunged--from any semblance of legitimacy in political debate
among honest people led by world governments with any commitment to the rule
of law and respect for human life.
As I mentioned back in February, the Bowles account of who and what
destroyed Monarchy in Iran in favor of Islamic Theocracy is a story that
shadowy Western political and economic elites do not want their people to
read, to hear, or to act upon.
Who are the forces cited by Mr. Bowles?
His article in February stated the following:
By 1978 Iran had the fourth largest nuclear power programme in the world
and the largest by far among Third World nations. The [then] Shah’s plan
called for the installation of 20 nuclear power reactors by 1995, to provide
some 23,000 megawatts of electricity. The Shah saw
nuclear electricity as the rational means to diversify Iran’s dependence on
petroleum, and as a means to counter the enormous pressure from Washington and
London to recycle his petrodollars to New York and London banks.
The contracts were made not with US corporations but with German and
French companies, and the US government—which up until this time had been
the Shah’s main backer and had installed him following the US/UK overthrow of
the anti-US Mossadegh government, did everything in its power to try and block
the deals—not surprising considering the role of Iranian oil in the US economy
and continuing the hegemony of the petro-dollar.
We must not lose sight of the fact that since the late 19th century, Iran’s
vast oil reserves, at first the exclusive domain of British imperialism
and its joint government-business owned company,
British Petroleum, and later the US when it took over the reigns of
empire, has been the major motivating force behind Anglo-US machinations in
the region.
The question to ask is why the Shahanshah Pahlavi
should have fallen out of favour with his Anglo-US sponsors? To answer this
question we have to look at the central role of the petro-dollar in propping
up Anglo-US imperialism.
There is no doubt that the US and the UK were
behind the removal of the Shah. The problem for the US/UK was that
the leading force inside Iran working to remove the Shah were progressives,
led largely by the Iranian Socialist Workers’ Party. Therefore, in
November 1978, President
Carter named the Bilderberg group’s George
Ball, another member of the Trilateral
Commission, to head a special White House Iran task force
under the National Security Council’s Brzezinski.
Ball recommended that Washington drop support for the
Shah of Iran and support the fundamentalist Islamic opposition of Khomeini.
Their scheme was based on a detailed study of the phenomenon of Islamic
fundamentalism, as presented by British Islamic
expert, Dr. Bernard Lewis … Lewis’s scheme was unveiled at the
May 1979 Bilderberg meeting in Austria,
endorsed the radical Muslim Brotherhood movement
behind Khomeini, in order to promote balkanisation of the entire
Muslim Near East along tribal and religious lines… The chaos would spread
in what he termed an ‘Arc of Crisis,’
which would spill over into the Muslim regions of the Soviet Union.
The coup against the Shah, like that against Mossadegh in 1953, was run by
British and American intelligence, with the bombastic American, Brzezinski,
taking public ‘credit’ for getting rid of the ‘corrupt’ Shah, while the
British characteristically remained safely in the background.
The major reason for removing the Shah was the oil. During
1978 negotiations were underway between British
Petroleum and the Shah to renew the 25-year old extraction
contract, negotiations which collapsed and with the collapse, Iran was for
the first time since 1953, once more in control of its oil resources. Cross
the imperium and experience their wrath.
In September 1978, the Iranian
publication Kayhan International stated in its editorial:
"In retrospect, the 25-year partnership the [British Petroleum] consortium
and the 50-year relationship with British Petroleum which preceded it, have
not been satisfactory ones for Iran … Looking to the future, NIOC [National
Iranian Oil Company] should plan to handle all operations by itself."
"The British retaliated by cutting the amount of
oil they bought from Iran by 2 million barrels a day. At the same time it is
alleged that British Petroleum was organising capital flight from the country
and the BBC, through its Farsi service, gave Ayotollah Khomeini a major
propaganda platform. The Iranian economy was in dire straights and in January
1979, the Shah went into exile and in February Khomaini was flown in from
exile in Paris. In May 1979 Khomeini cancelled the nuclear power programme."
"As a result Iran was once more totally dependent on the sale of oil to the
West, for what was and still is, at stake here, is the right of developing
countries to pursue an independent course."
For the record: The BBC is a direct instrument of
agitation-propaganda for the Islamic Republic in Iran (IRI) regime in
providing a televised forum this past Saturday evening to an international
criminal of the magnitude of Ibrahim Yazdi.ma Yazdi should be one of
scores of IRI officials, past and present, hauled before legitimate
international tribunals and tried for their crimes against humanity. And as
this man has proved to be an assassin of scores of the innocent in Iran, the
BBC should be forced to apologize for its own role in assassinating both the
truth of the historical record regarding the Mullahs and their Revolution,
and eradicating its own credibility as a source of honest journalism
independent of the machinations of the British government and others who
secretly conspired against Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi and the people of a Free
Iran in the tragic events of 1978-79.
Payandeh Iran,
Shirin Neshat
Sarbazan
P.O.
Box 16166
Beverly Hills, CA 90209
Phone: 310 863 8218
shneshat@aol.com