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Empress Farah Pahlavi and H.I.H. Reza Pahlavi
 visit the "Cyrus Cylinder"
displayed at the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery - Washington DC
March 20, 2013
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On March 20, 2013, Julian Raby, the Dame Jillian Sackler Director of the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery and the Freer Gallery of Art in Washington D.C., hosted a reception in honor of H.I.H. Reza Pahlavi and H.I.M. Farah Pahlavi for a private viewing of the exhibition "THE CYRUS CYLINDER AND ANCIENT PERSIA: A NEW BEGINNING".

Left to right:
Julian Raby, The Dame Jillian Sackler Director, Massumeh Farhad, Chief Curator and Curator of Islamic Art Freer Gallery of Art/Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Smithsonian Institution,

HIM Shahbanou Farah Pahlavi,  H.I.H. Reza Pahlavi, HIH Yasmin Pahlavi

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The Cyrus Cylinder and Ancient Persia: A New Beginning
March 9–April 28, 2013 Click to see slideshows and more: Arthur M. Sackler Gallery

Modest in scale and appearance, the Cyrus Cylinder is one of the most important and iconic objects in world history. The origins of this baked clay object, which was buried as a foundation deposit, can be traced to the Persian king Cyrus the Great’s conquest of Babylon in the sixth century BCE. It bears an inscription, written in Babylonian cuneiform, that claims Cyrus’s victory over the last Babylonian ruler, Nabonidus. Also in this text, Cyrus declared religious freedom for his newly conquered people. He encouraged Jews to return to Jerusalem and build the second temple, which earned him the title “shepherd of God” and even the “Lord’s anointed” (Messiah) in the Book of Isaiah. Although the Cylinder was not discovered until 1879, Cyrus’s support for religious tolerance has inspired generations of philosophers, rulers, and statesmen—from ancient Greece to the Renaissance, and from the Founding Fathers to leaders in the modern-day Middle East.

On loan from the British Museum, this remarkable object makes its US debut at the Sackler. It is shown with a number of key items that offer insight into the religious, cultural, and linguistic traditions of the vast and powerful Achaemenid Empire (539–331 BCE) founded by Cyrus the Great.

The Cyrus Cylinder and Ancient Persia: A New Beginning is organized by the British Museum in partnership with the Iran Heritage Foundation and the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution. The exhibition is supported by an indemnity from the Federal Council on the Arts and the Humanities. Major support for the Sackler’s presentation is provided by the Leon Levy Foundation.

At the Sackler Gallery March 20, 2013

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From left to right:

H.I.M. Empress Farah Pahlavi, Princess Nour Pahlavi,  Princess Yasmin Pahlavi,  Princess Farah Pahlavi, H.I.H. Reza Pahlavi and Princess Iman Pahlavi

at the Sackler Gallery  Washington DC- March 20, 2013

With little Princess Iryana daughter of my dear son the late Prince Alireza Pahlavi

 

H.I.H Reza Pahlavi recalled that "as an Iranian, I am both humbled and proud at the sight of Cyrus' cylinder; a reminder to all mankind of the principles of
tolerance and freedom of all faiths observed throughout our once great Empire".

شاهزاده رضا پهلوی :

 به عنوان یک ایرانی با افتخار به بازدید استوانه کوروش شتافتم که یادآوری است برای بشریت که امپراطوری پرشکوه

ایران چگونه احترام و آزادی را برای تمامی باورهایی که درگستره آن می زیسته اند پاس می داشته است

 

Patriotic Evening with Singer Googoosh at Madison Square Garden New York - October 21, 2006

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Singer Googoosh and Empress Farah Pahlavi hold hands

Empress Farah Pahlavi with Farahnaz Pahlavi, Googoosh, Grandaughter Iman Pahlavi and showmaster, songwriter Mehrdad at left.

Googoosh hails the Iranian Flag



With Dr. Shahrokh Ahkami who initiated the show in New York

Empress Farah Pahlavi at Maurice Béjart 80th Birthday Party
December 30, 2006

CLICK HERE TO LOOK AND LISTEN TO "FARAH BALLET" BY BÉJART

GENEVA (AFP) - Farah Pahlavi the former Empress of Iran was among the many guests at weekend celebrations in Switzerland to mark the 80th birthday of one of the finest choreographers of the 20th century, Maurice Béjart, his dance company said. Lausanne for 19 years. Béjart made an important contribution to the Persian Ballet Repertoire in the 1960s and 1970s at the Roudaki Hall in Tehran, created under the supervision of the empress, Shahbanou Farah Pahlavi. Others present in the city of Lausanne to pay homage to the French-born artist on Saturday included Russian-born ballet star Mikail Barashnykof, Soprano Julia Migenes sang "Happy Birthday" and actor Jean-Claude Brialy gave a speech. Former director of the Opera National de Paris dance school, Claude Bessy, joined choreographer John Neumeier and Farah Pahlavi, to extend their best wishes. Maurice Béjart in the bottom photo below thanks everyone.NB. 
Maurice Béjart, one of the world's most renowned choreographers, travelled widely in Iran in the 1970s and became deeply drawn to its art and culture. With his “Ballet du XXème siècle” he appeared several times at the Shiraz-Persepolis Festival of Arts, presenting  works he had created for the occasion. Amongst these were “Golestan”  a ballet based on a passage of Sa’di’s book of the same name and “Farah” based on poems by Rumi and other sufi poets, both with  Iranian traditional music accompaniment performed by Iranian musicians and singers such as Nourredin Razavi Sarvestani & Dariush Tala’i etc... "Heliogabalus" was another world premiere in Shiraz in. All these ballets were later presented in Brussels where Béjart was based at the time. He later moved to Lausanne, Switzerland, and founded his “Béjart Ballet Lausanne”
On December 30, 2006, friends and artists from all over the world gathered in Lausanne to celebrate the eightieth birthday of this great artist who continues to produce new works to critical acclaim. Present at the ceremony was HIM Farah Pahlavi. There has always been mutual respect between the Shahbanou and Maurice Béjart who has remained a true and loyal friend for the Empress throughout her difficult years in exile. Present at the ceremony was  Her Imperial Majesty Farah Pahlavi. There has always been a mutual respect between the Shahbanou Farah and  Maurice Béjart who has remained a true and loyal friend for her and the Iranian culture she loves.

 A passage from from famed Persian Poet Sa'di: (SAADI)
Of what use will be a dish of roses to you
Take one page from this rose garden of mine
A rose only lives for five or six days
The joy from my rose garden always stays 

One of the devout who had deeply plunged his head into the cowl of meditation and had been immersed in the ocean of visions, was asked, when he had come out of that state, by one of his companions who had desired to cheer him up: ‘What beautiful gift hast thou brought us from the garden in which thou hast been?’ He replied: ‘I intended to fill the skirts of my robe with roses, when I reached the rose-tree, as presents for my friends but the perfume of the flowers intoxicated me so much that I let go the hold of my skirts.’ was also praised by the French poet Marceline Desbordes Valmore  in her poem “Les Roses de Saadi

J'ai voulu ce matin te rapporter des roses,
Mais j'en avais tant pris dans mes ceintures closes,
Que les nœuds trop serrés n'ont pu les contenir.
Les nœuds ont éclaté. Les roses envolées
Dans le vent, à la mer, s'en sont toutes allées,
Elles ont suivi l'eau pour ne plus revenir.
La vague en a paru rouge et comme enflammée.
Ce soir, ma robe encore en est tout embaumée…
Respires-en sur moi l'odorant souvenir.

Click here English  translation of Golestan by Sir Richard Francis Burton (1821-1890) available online

Also see articles by Darius Kadivar in Persian Mirror

The Empress with Maurice Béjart at the Shiraz Festival - Right a poster and photo from Rudaki Hall Tehran

The Shah and Shahbanou inaugurate the steel industry complex of Isfahanذوب‌ آهن اصفهان
گشايش ذوب آهن در ايران 1346- 1967
آغاز بهره برداری ذوب آهن در ايران 1350-1971
برافراشته باد پرچم شیروخورشید نشان

 

 

The establishment of an iron and steel plant had been in the mind of Iranians since the early decade of the 20th century. The first attempt was made in the late 1930s during the reign of H.I.M.Reza Shah Pahlavi with the assistance of German companies, since no other country would help at the time. But the outbreak of  World War II brought the construction works to a standstill and the project was never completed. Almost two decades after  World War II due to speedy recovery in the economic situation during the reign of my husband, Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, and an increasing demand for steel products, the creation of a steel complex was brought up again. The Steel Mill was the first direct investment the government made in the steel industry, and it represented many decades of effort and disillusion. An inter-governmental contract was concluded between the governments of Iran and the USSR to transfer the natural gas from Iran to the Soviet Union in exchange for heavy industry, a huge steel making complex with annual capacity of 550,000 tons in Isfahan was included. For this purpose, the National Iranian Steel Corporation (NISCO) was established for construction of the plant and mobilization of the relevant mines such as iron ore, coking coal, limestone, refractory , etc. The plant was successfully commissioned and came into operation in 1971.  Subsequently, a contract for expansion of the Isfahan Steel Plant to a capacity of 1.9 million tons/year of structural steel was signed with the USSR. Against much opposition, we were finally able to introduce steel manufacturing into Iran. In many ways this can be seen as a turning point because only after production began were we taken more seriously in international fora.
See above pictures of the inauguration day!
A VIDEO on the steel industry from Amir Khosrow Sheibany

See it now in High Definition
Courtesy Amir Khosrow Sheibany - December 2011

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What Would Make P5+1 Talks Look Easy

Thursday, September 26th, 2013 by Reza Pahlavi

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Source: Huffington Post

 

As an Iranian, I share the hopes and aspirations of millions of my compatriots for that day when my homeland will once again lead the region in the quest for peace and stability, as it did before the clerical regime took power. In this respect, the much-anticipated address of Mr. Hassan Rouhani to the United Nations was a welcome change of tone from the paranoid ravings of his predecessor at the same podium.


But as leaders and diplomats parse Mr. Rouhani's words for hidden messages and deeper meanings, my experience suggests that what he did not say is more important than what he did.

In 2009, when the severely flawed presidential elections of Iran spurred millions of citizens to the streets in protest, the same theocratic regime Mr. Rouhani today represents showed its real face by use of brute force: murders, arrests, and beatings of hundreds of my fellow Iranians who simply dared to exercise their freedom of speech and express what they wanted: an honest and accountable government.

In departing Tehran for New York this week, Mr. Rouhani, the new face of the world's only theocratic totalitarian government, said it was his intention to show "Iran's real face" to the world, and his overtures of "constructive interaction" raised interest near and far.

In his own remarks, U.S. President Barack Obama said: "I believe the diplomatic path should be tested."

As the speeches concluded, the time for that testing begins, and those who listened carefully to Rouhani's speech might have cause to be wary: twice since the late 1990s, the world has seen two allegedly pragmatic or reform-oriented Iranian cleric-leaders speak of taking a moderate path towards diplomacy only to be vetoed by the man who really rules Iran: supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

While the supreme cleric has reportedly authorized Mr. Rouhani to launch a "charm offensive" in New York, back in Tehran those closest to Khamenei insist that not a single facet has changed in the regime's long-held position; a revolutionary ideology and the central question of the nuclear portfolio. Instead, the supreme cleric has tentatively authorized an approach based on 'heroic flexibility,' a newly coined terminology in shi'a diplomacy, which is hopefully not rooted in taqi'yah, or religious dissimulation.

So, as with the two previous presidential harbingers of new thinking - Rafsanjani and Khatami - who were in fact unable to move the nation away from the theocratic vitriol that holds Iran and Iranians hostage - the proof of pragmatism and moderation from any Iranian president is yet to be revealed.

Meanwhile, for ordinary Iranian citizens, there are more immediate grounds on which the seriousness of Mr. Rouhani's overtures may be judged. Assuming that Mr. Rouhani has the best of intentions, there are several concrete - and less existentially challenging than the nuclear question - ways in which he can demonstrate to the international community that he is a man who can deliver:

First, the regime should be challenged to release of all political prisoners. While the symbolic release of 80 prisoners prior to Rouhani's flight to New York is a step in the right direction, the U.N. Special Rapporteur on Human Rights will confirm the actual number of political prisoners in Iran, are in the thousands. Together with a broad-reaching amnesty for these languishing souls, the regime should immediately stop its persecution of religious and ethnic minorities and renounce its own widespread practices of torture and execution.

Second, the regime should be challenged to enact into law the fundamental protection of individual rights that are implied in the Islamist constitution, but are nowhere specified by statute. In 2005, Mr. Rouhani's predecessor, Mohammed Khatami, attempted to pass some such law only to be rejected by hardline clerics loyal the supreme leader. In particular, women in Iran suffer disproportionately--while Article 20 of the Islamist constitution speaks to the notion of gender equality, the systematic abuse of Iranian women and their rights tells another story. If Mr. Rouhani is able to empower the courts in this way, Iranians and the outside world that cares for their welfare will no longer be hostage to personalities that come and go, but rather know that an institutionalized judicial system allows all Iranians access to an open courtroom.

Third, the government should usher in a new era of accountability in Iran, specifically where public funds are concerned. My compatriots, especially the young, today endure catastrophic unemployment, in concert with the bitter sting of inflation now soaring above 40 percent. At the same time, billions of dollars are funneled to dubious 'causes' and mischief beyond Iran's borders, both in Syria and throughout the region. If Mr. Rouhani claims a mandate for change, that must include change in the way state funds are misappropriated or the disregard for grand corruption widespread among the regime's 'dear-hearts.'

Of course achieving even one of these goals by the clerical regime is not as simple as it may sound, but they are all reasonable demands on any government that promises and which is expected to keep its word.

Whether he is a reformer of simply a messenger, with an impressive degree of theater, Mr. Rouhani has opened a door: the question now is whether anything will pass through that opening. My long, intimate history with Iran, and now in the loyal opposition, leaves me with very low expectations of Mr. Rouhani's presidency, despite cautious optimistim in most media.

Everyone who reads this article must understand this above all else: My compatriots in Iran tell me daily how hungry they are for real, deeper change that the new, smiling presidential cleric hinted at throughout his campaign public relations tour. If he is able to deliver real and meaningful change to the people of Iran, coming to terms with the P5+1 nuclear matters will be easy.

Reza Pahlavi - What Would Make P5 1 Talks Look Easy

رادیو مهر ایران مستقل است؛ مجرایی است نو که از آن طریق شاهزاده رضا پهلوی با شما به گفتگو می نشیند. باشد تا دست در دست هم میهن خویش را آزاد و آباد به نسل های بعد تحویل دهیم.
از جمعه ی آینده، ۱۲ مهر ماه، چهارم اکتبر، برنامه های اصلی را شروع خواهیم کرد. ما را در اطلاع رسانی یاری کنید و اطلاعات دریافت رادیو را به آگاهی دوستان و آشنایان خود برسانید.

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پیام شاهزاده رضا پهلوی به مناسبت آغاز سال تحصیلی در ایران

Sunday, September 22th, 2013 by شاهزاده رضا پهلوی

 

اول مهرماه ۱۳۹۲


هم میهنان عزیزم، دانشجویان، دانش آموزان، استادان و آموزگاران

فرارسیدن ماه مهر، ماه دانش آموزی و دانش پژوهی را به یکایک شما شادباش می گویم.

هم میهنم،

ما فرزندان سرزمینی هستیم به نام زیبای «ایران» که کوروش کبیر، منشور حقوق بشر را برای برقراری احترام به انسانیت و آزادی و یکسان زیستن با هم را برای جهانیان به ارمغان آورد. ما فرزندان سرزمین خیام، مولانا، فردوسی، حافظ، سعدی، پروین اعتصامی، فروغ، نیما، شاملو و مهد مهر، صلح و نیکی هستیم.

ما فرزندان سرزمینی هستیم که سرشار از نعمت های خدادادی و ثروت های طبیعی و انسانی است و سرلوحه زندگی مردمانش، پندارنیک، گفتار نیک و کردار نیک است.

هم میهنــم،

 بیش از ســه دهـه است که مــا مـردم ایـران مــورد بی مِهری و بیدادگری فرمانداران تمامیت خواه جمهوری اسلامی هستیم. جمهوری اسلامی به نام دین و معنویت و خدا برهمگان ستم می کند. مقام معلم، دانشگاه و دانشجو را تخریب و تضعیف می کنــد، علم زُدایـی می کنـد، تمـدن کشـی می کنـد، و زن را جنــس دوم می خواند. حقوق اقوام ایرانی، حقوق ادیان و باورهای ایرانی و دگراندیشان و دگرباشان را پایمال می کند.

خفقان و فقر و گرانی های کمرشکن، مردم ایران را آواره و راهی کشورهای دیگر می کند و سرمایه های ملی ایرانمان را در راه ترور و تروریسم حیف و میل می کند. بر زنان و مردان و کودکان سوریه جنایت می کند، هویت ایرانی را بدنام می کند و آبروی ملت با تمدن کهن ایرانزمین را متزلزل می کند و در جهان این مرز پرگُهر را منزوی می کند. در حالی که علی خامنه ایی، بر تخت ولایتی تکیه زده است، زنان و کودکان و مردان سرزمین ما بر کارتون ها می خوابند.

هم میهنم،

 زمان پُر کردن فاصله هایی که این نظام ایجاد کرده، رسیده است. زمان حکومت استبدادی یک نفره به پایان رسیده است.

زمان حرکت شکوهمند به سوی آزادی و حاکمیت بر سرنوشت خویش فرا رسیده است و امروز قهرمان اصلی تاریخ فردای ایران آزاد شما هستید.

نمونه های تاریخی زیادی همچون کُره، آلمان، ژاپن، و دیگر کشورهـــایی کــه بــه تـرقــی و پیشرفــت دست یــافتــه انــد را می توانیم الگوی راه خود قرار دهیم. علت پیشرفت این کشورها نه در تفاوت نژاد، هوش و یا شاخص دیگر بلکه در شیوه و سُنت مدیریت جامعه بوده است.

ژاپن، بعد از جنگ جهانی دوم، فقر شدید، تحریم های جهانی، سرخوردگی و فشارهای روانی، با امکانات و منابع طبیعی محدودش بر لبه پرتگاه بود که در زمانی بسیار کوتاه، امروز یکی از پیشرفته ترین کشورهای دنیاست.

و اما آنچه که باعث پیشرفت شگرف آور این کشور در سطح جهان شد، روش مدیریت و ادارۀ جامعه است. در ژاپن مسئولیت جمعی است. یعنی کل جمع، خود را مسئول می داند نه اینکه صرفا صاحب کارخانه یا رییس اداره خود را مسئول و همه کاره بداند.

نظام گذشته علیرغم همه پیشرفت های حاصله برای ایران پایدار نماند، چون اکثریت جامعه بیشتر مصرف کننده بود و خودشان در شکل گیری زیرساخت ها بندرت دخیل بودند.

سیستم یک جامعه می بایست بر اساس خِرد جمعی و مشارکت جمعی پایه ریزی شود. ما مردم ایران می بایست همگی مدیر زندگی خویش، مدیر خانه و خانواده و جامعه خویش باشیم، مسئول باشیم و مسئولیت پذیر.

بی تفاوت ننشینیم در انتظار یک نفر یا عده ای محدود تا همۀ مسئولیت ها را به تنهایی به دوش بکشند. لازمه ترقی، رفاه، رشد و توسعه پایدار جامعه برای ایران فردا، سهیم شدن در فرایند خِرد و مسئولیت پذیری جمعی در تقویت زیرساخت ها است.

ما مردم ایران می توانیم و می بایست تلاش کنیم تا با هم در یک حرکت و همآهنگی ملی، کشورمان را برای فرزندانمان دوباره از نو بسازیم.

اینجا خانه خود شماست، بیاییم در این خانه مُشترک، فضای گفتمان جمعی را ایجاد کنیم. درد ودل، انتقادها، پشنهادها و راهکارهای ممکن را بیان کنیم تا به مشکلات ایران و ایرانمان بپردازیم. ازدیروز پُلی بسازیم تا بتوانیم با هم از امروز گُذر کنیم و به فردای بهتر آنچنانکه شایسته هر ایرانی است برسیم.
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شادباش شاهزاده رضا پهلوی برای آزادی یازده آزادیخواه در بند جمهوری اسلامی‎

Thursday, September 19th, 2013 by شاهزاده رضا پهلوی

 

 

به نام انسانیت و آزادی

پایداری، مقاومت و ایستادگی شیرزنان و دلیرمردان ایرانزمین به همگان نشان داد که می توان دیکتاتور را وادار به عقب نشینی کرد. خبر آزادی هشت شیرزن و سه دلیرمرد ایرانزمین، فضای ایرانیان را در سراسر جهان به وجد و شادی آورده است.

آزادی نسرین ستوده، محبوبه کرمی، مهساامرآبادی، مریم جلیلی، میترا رحمتی، فرح واضحان، ژیلا مکوندی، کفایت ملک محمدی، حسین زرینی، ابراهیم بابایی زیدی و محمدعلی ولایتی برهمه ملت ایران به ویژه خانواده های صبور و مقاوم این گرامیان شاد باد.

« به من گفتند آزاد هستی، ما می خواهیم همه زندانیان آزاد شوند»

نسرین ستوده

همچنان آزادی فریبا کمال آبادی، مجید توکلی، کاظمین بروجردی، بهمن احمدی امویی، احمد زیدآبادی، عیسی سحرخیز، سیامک قادری، وکلای زندانی و دیگر هم میهنان سیاسی و یا عقیدتی در بند جمهوری اسلامی خواهانیم.

 

ما زنان و مردان ایرانی، در فقدان حکومتی مسئول، باید دست در دست یکدیگر، برای استقرار حقوق بشر و دموکراسی در کشورمان و پایان دادن به تبعیض، نابرابری، بی عدالتی، خشونت و سرکوب تا رهایی و آزادی و برابری ایستادگی نماییم.

 

به یاد و احترام برای خانواده های داغدار آقا سلطان، اعرابی، ستار بهشتی، جوادیفر، عطااللـه رضوانی، حبیبی خامنه و همه جانباختگان راه آزادی کشورمان و همچنین خانواده های کشته شدگان کمپ اشرف را گرامی می دارم.

 

مبارزه ما برای رسیدن به آزادی و امنیت فردی هرچند سخت و دشوار است، اما اطمینان دارم که در آینده ایی نزدیک پیروز خواهد شد و همه ما ایرانیان در کنار هم آزادانه زندگی خواهیم کرد.

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