“Where is God’s justice? Hell is too nice of a place for those who took our country and caused this much suffering,” said one post.The junior Shah has some imperial nerve. Nice family in general.* Inbreeding?
The shah, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, died of cancer in Egypt a year after he left Iran shortly before the defeat of his remaining forces in 1979. The new Islamic state quickly became an arch-foe of the United States after militants — angered over American aid to the shah — stormed the U.S. Embassy and held 52 hostages for 444 days.
The shah’s family, meanwhile, sought haven in exile and many members eventually settled in the United States, where they carry no real political weight in the Iranian opposition.
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The monarch’s youngest son, Alireza, was born in Tehran, then attended schools in New York, Cairo and western Massachusetts before going on to study music at an undergraduate at Princeton University, ancient Iranian studies as a graduate student at Columbia University and postgraduate work at Harvard University.
But he apparently struggled with depression following the death of his sister Leila in 2001, who was found in a London hotel room at age 31 after overdosing on barbiturates.
“Once again, we are joined with mothers, father and relatives of so many victims of these dark times for our country,” his brother wrote on his website, announcing the death.
*Signing Statement: Not really intended to be rudely dismissive of those who suffer & die at the hands of family, rather than at the hands of strangers or any of the various police forces of the corporate state, nor to endorse in any way the theocrats currently running Persia.
Plus which (later): a dynasty drenched in blood.
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