Wednesday, January 13, 2016

Cultural glitches: Why does the Iranian community and also the U.S. academy demonize national self interest?

Special to WorldTribune.com

By Sheda Vasseghi

The recent death of the late Shah’s twin sister Princess Ashraf Pahlavi (1919-2016) has caused an odd part of the Iranian psyche to resurface once again.

Under articles about the princess or the late Shah, some Iranians leave peculiar and negative comments on social media that are illogical, offensive, petty, and nitpicky. In hindsight after all the legacy of the Pahlavi family looks quite good in comparison to the catastrophic theocracy of the Islamic Republic which hijacked the national cultural heritage and may eventually push Iran into a another devastating and undesirable war. So why is it necessary to salute the legitimacy of the radical mullahs’ so called “revolution”?

The Pahlavi dynasty’s (1925-1979) main objective was to free Iran from a backwards and suffocating theocratic Islamic control under their predecessors, the Qajar dynasty (1789-1925), which had hindered the nation’s progress and civil rights especially for women and minorities.

FULL ARTICLE   http://www.worldtribune.com/cultural-glitches-why-does-the-iran-exile-community-and-also-the-u-s-academic-culture-demonize-national-self-interest/

[pic source alsiasi: The late Shah of Iran and his twin sister Princess Ashraf in their youth... for educational purposes only]

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