Section 3 – Persian Conspiracies after the Islamic Conquest
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Section 4
Iran in the Era of the Pahlavi (Bahlawi) Family
- Iran and the Pahlavis
Iran and the Pahlavis
Reza Khan migrated to Tehran at the age of eighteen and remained in Tehran for a few years. He worked in restaurants and cafes to earn his livelihood until a friend advised him to join the military.
When he presented himself to the camp commander, he was immediately accepted, his great height, about two meters tall, was his best advocate. So, he was appointed supervisor of the camp’s stables and was responsible for the animals in it. After several months, he left this job to join the Lorestan camp as an ordinary soldier. Reza Khan showed great willingness and activeness in his work, so he was promoted to the rank of corporal and later to sergeant. In this manner, Reza Khan began climbing the ladder of the army ranks, one after the other, until he became the head of one of the military barracks in Tehran, and then head of Camp Hamedan.[1]
Britain had vital interests in Iran. It feared the new communist power in Russia, adjacent to Iran. It knew that Ahmed Shah was weak and was unable to face the imminent dangers in his country. The British delegated Reza Khan to this task. This delegation came in stages.
The deportation of Ahmed Shah was completed in 1921. In 1925, Reza Khan appointed himself as Shah and took for himself the title Pahlavi. In 1926, Reza Pahlavi banned the wearing of Hijab (covering of the hair and face). His wife was the first to uncover her head in an official ceremony. He then instructed the police to arrest women who refuse to emulate their queen and instead choose to cover their heads. No woman left her home with hair covered except that she returned with it unveiled. The police would confiscate her ‘abayah (cloak) and insult her as much as they could to humiliate her. When the Shah was asked the reason behind his suppression of women, whereas recent history had guaranteed him the achievement of his goals, he answered, “My patience has run out. Until when will I see my country filled with black crows?”
In 1927, Reza Pahlavi abolished the provisions for Islamic law and established a new civil law for punishments based on French law. In 1930, he religious education in public schools and then made it non-compulsory in primary and secondary schools, and imposed the Persian language instead of Arabic.
Reza Khan was a close friend of Kemal Atatürk. He was always desirous of imitating him and following his footsteps. This friendship led to a visit by Reza Khan to Atatürk in 1934. Therefore, Reza Pahlavi, in his war against Islam, was a mirror image of Atatürk.
In 1935, he changed the name of the state to Iran after it had been Faris (Persia). Reza Pahlavi continued to enforce the policies of the British, aimed to disseminate heresy and battle against Islam, until his allied masters removed him in 1941 and chose his son Mohammad Reza as Shah of Iran.
The new Shah of Iran, Mohammad Reza, was a student of the Madrasah Rawzah near Janif. He had close ties with British intelligent agent, Monsieur Brown. This was the methodology of the British in nurturing and preparing leaders. After the Shah completed his preparatory studies, he returned to his country with his friend and teacher, M. Brown. His wife, Soraya (Thurayya) talks in her memoirs about the Shah’s relationship with Monsieur Brown after he became Shah saying, “Nothing puzzled or surprised me in the time I spent with the Shah, more than this close and mysterious contact between him and Monsieur Brown. I could have asked him anything, except about Brown’s personality and his dealings with him.”
In 1948, the Shah of Iran Mohammad Reza Pahlavi recognised Israel and established strong ties with it. These ties were not severed until the reign of Mosaddegh. Ties returned to their previous state after Mosaddegh’s government was toppled and the Shah returned to speak on loving Israel and established strong ties with it. He accepted its ambassador, Dorrell, at his court and opened all avenues for him. In Iran, an army of Jewish experts worked in the Ministry of Agriculture alone, more than 200 agricultural engineers. The Jews have widespread companies and institutions that constitute an economic weight in the capital, Tehran.
The Baha’is had vast authority over Iran. Among the most important figures belonging to this sect were Lieutenant General Ayadi, the personal physician of the Shah, Abbas Hoveyda, the former Prime Minister who was born in Palestine to a Baha’i father, Abbas Aram, the former Minister of Foreign Affairs, and senior officials in charge of television, headed by Thabet Basial, Jamshid Amouzegar, former Prime Minister and Minister of Defense, Health, and Water.
During the pilgrimage season to Acre, a scared city to the Baha’is, Israeli El Al planes transport Baha’is to and from Iran. The Iranian government offers many facilities to these Baha’is in all fields, and they are free to take whatever money they want with them.[2]
The British brought Shah Mohammad Reza in the forties. In the fifties, the Americans took over his protection, so they provided him with weapons, experts, and soldiers and returned him to power after him leaving Iran during the era of Mosaddegh.
After the return of Mohammad Reza, he became a prisoner of the CIA, and he did not disobey its orders. The Americans made Iran a centre to protect their interests in the Arabian Peninsula.
When the Shah’s power strengthened in Iran, he began to talk about his expansionist ambitions in the Gulf region. After the British withdrew from the Gulf in 1971, the Shah occupied the following Arabic islands: Abu Musa near Sharjah, the Greater Tunb near Ras Al Khaimah, and the Lesser Tunb which is 8 miles from the Greater Tunb.
The Shah openly proclaimed his vision:
Iran must build its future military plans on the Gulf.
He added saying:
We do not want forces to exit the Persian Gulf [as he claimed] only for it to be replaced by other forces. There is no doubt that such a thing will not happen. Ensuring freedom of navigation in this region will be entrusted to us and we are able to fulfill our obligations.[3]
In the religious and national frameworks, the Shah worked to revive the glories of the Persians and he repeated on every occasion that his people should be Iranian, first of all, and he believed that the principles of the Magi religion were sufficient to make humanity happy and were not less than the principles brought by Islam.
Dr. Musa al Musawi says:
Anyone who visits the Shah in his private office must see that golden plaque on which he wrote the three phrases, i.e. the well-known principles of Zoroaster: good thought, good deed, and good word. It was placed on the side of his office so that he may have the fortune to read it every morning.[4]
Shah Mohammad Reza tried to revive the customs, traditions, and rituals of the Sasanids. At the same time, he fought and persecuted the non-Persian minorities in Iran, such as Arabs, Kurds, Turkmens, and Baluchis.
Finally, the Royal Court was rife with various kinds of corruption and absurdity. The Shah’s older sister, Shams, converted to Christianity at the hands of Paul II in 1955 and built a church in her palace. She prides herself in carrying the cross and spreading Christianity among the people. Princess Khairia married a musician who worked in Tehran’s amusement park, then he quit playing after marrying the princess and became Minister of Art. The Shah’s twin sister Ashraf runs the largest drug-trafficking establishment in the world and holds the worst evening parties at her palace. The Shah’s ex-wife Soraya described these parties:
When the party reaches its crescendo at 1 AM, the lights would go out and every now and then the attendees would hear dogs barking from a recording, and soon the truth would be revealed that it was the Shah who was imitating the sounds of the dogs.[5]
Corruption was not limited to the Royal Court, but drugs spread among the young people in Iran, together with the spread of decay and the spread of atheism. The reader will find details of this elsewhere in this book.[6]
Summary
We have presented a brief history of Iran and highlighted the stance of the Persian Magians on Islam since the advent of the chosen Messenger salla Llahu ‘alayhi wa sallam until this day. We established with decisive proofs that the Persian Magians did not stop conspiring against the din for a single day.
In this summary, we did not mention all the esoteric movements of the Magi, and if we did that, we would need to compose a number of books.
We did not date the Assassin movement and the history of its leader, the Persian Magi Hasan al Sabbah and what role he played, and is playing today in the history of Syria, India, Africa, Iran, and Europe. If we might add, then it is worth mentioning, that the doctrine of the Bohra is no different from the doctrine of the Assassins.
We skipped the history of the Almohads, Hamdanids, Aghlabids, and Idrisids, as well as that of the many esoteric Magi movements. We omitted the discussion on these sects and on the people of esotericism because we did not want to provide a detailed historical study. Rather, we intended to provide a summary that includes the main stages of history, and what we omitted to mention is no different in terms of belief from what we mentioned previously.
Based on this historical study, we can say that the essence of the esoteric movements of the Magi is the same throughout history. The movement of Mazda, Zoroaster, Mani, and Mazdak are not different in their general fundamentals from the Kaysaniyyah, Rawandiyyah, Barkamiyyah, and Zanadiqah. Then, these are no different from that of the Buyids, Fatimids, and Qarmatians. These, furthermore, do not differ from the Safavids, Druze, Nusayris, Assassins, and Baha’is.
These movements and divisions were influenced by Jews, Christians and Buddhists[7], and from here we learn the secrets of the conspiracies that are
planned and implemented by the Crusader countries of the West, the Jews, the Communists, and other esoteric groups.
From this historical presentation, we know that the slogan raised by the Shia, of the Ahlul Bayt and the infallibility of the Imams, is originally a Magi belief. All esoteric movements believed in a sacred religious family.
We are no longer surprised, after this display, about why the esotericists today resort to the use of methods of violence and oppression, and why they eliminate their opponents through assassinations and suppress the freedoms of their citizens.
We are no longer surprised about how esotericists spread libertinism, how they make mobs, fools, and murderers judge over people, and why they drown the country in seas of vice and decay.
After this historical presentation, we know why the new esotericists everywhere say what suits them: they become socialists with socialist countries, capitalists with capitalist countries, and advocates of Islam with Islamists.
Their approach to secrecy and Taqiyyah is the cause of all these contradictions. This is the way of the esotericists yesterday and this is their way today and in the future, as long as they believe in these corrupt doctrines.
Muslims should discover these schemes and not be tempted by the internal differences that take place between their groups, which are in fact a summer cloud and are easy to overcome when compared to external danger.
[1] Dr. Musa al Musawi: Iran fi Rub’ Qarn, pg. 172.
[2] Iran fi Rub’ Qarn, pg. 99.
[3] Dr. al Fil: Al Ahammiyyah al Istratijiyyah li al Khalij al ‘Arabi, pg. 46-102.
[4] Iran fi Rub’ Qarn, pg. 204.
[5] Iran fi Rub’ Qarn, pg. 192.
[6] When we discuss the history of the Pahlavi family, we relied on the book al Sira’ bayn al Fikrah al Islamiyyah wa al Fikrah al Gharbiyyah of al Nadwi, pg. 138 quoting from the book al Sharq al Awsat fi al Qadaya al ‘Alamiyyah. Similarly, we relied on the book Tarikh al Shu’ub al Islamiyyah of Brockelmann, pg. 796.
[7] See the outcomes of the discussion in the first section.