00:02:16.000well good evening everyone or good morning or good afternoon wherever you might be i'm goldie
00:02:28.400gomari and this is the evening edition of the goldie show and uh you know the evening edition
00:02:35.200is where it's a little bit more light-hearted you know as light-hearted as it can get when we're on
00:02:41.840the topic of um you know iran and islamic terrorism and the middle east but it is a little bit more
00:02:48.720lighthearted than you know my usual uh daily live streams that i do at 12 noon eastern um big hello
00:02:56.560to the mods and of course a shout out to all the members on the youtube chat thank you for joining
00:03:02.640and yeah shout out to the goldie gang great to see you all um so the last time we left off
00:03:08.240we were watching a documentary called the mystery of the last shah of iran um uncover the mystery
00:03:15.920of the last shah of iran's exile from his country during the iranian revolution of 1979 his illness
00:03:24.560misdiagnosis maltreatment and eventual death and its impact on the middle east united states and
00:03:31.280of the world um i think we we were somewhere i think around a seven because of certain like
00:03:40.160historical inaccuracies and narratives that had been pushed um about the shah but then we kind
00:03:47.200of got into the more interesting parts and then of course i got a copyright claim which is
00:03:52.240unfortunate because the stream went down but then of course i appealed it and then that is back up
00:03:58.640So part one of this documentary watch party is live.
00:04:05.020It's back on my YouTube channel with no issues whatsoever.
00:04:08.480So what I'm going to do today is instead of playing it at one speed, I'm going to try playing it at 1.25.
00:04:19.500I have a feeling that maybe it's the music in the background of some of the clips that maybe gets a copyright violation or something.
00:04:28.180i i have no idea um so i feel like it's triggering like the automatic mechanism in youtube or
00:04:35.220something because um because every time my stream goes down i appeal it and it comes back up
00:04:41.140especially since all of these videos are publicly available on youtube so this one for example is
00:04:46.820available um on a channel called royal world mobility and dynasties so i'm just going to try
00:04:54.020playing it live from here um major says before we get started i'm going to make a definitive
00:05:01.140historical statement all of iran's problems started with the fall of the sauce on its
00:05:10.420wow okay um that is definitely taking it quite far back but one thing i can say um for certain
00:05:21.780is that you know within the history of um uh monarchy in iran and the various dynasties
00:05:30.580there are three dynasties that stand out really um for iranians in terms of you know some of the
00:05:37.860best dynasties the first one is of course the pan levy um the second one is the sauce on it and0.84
00:05:44.100And the third one, oh gosh, the name, I think it's like the Afshavids or something like that.
00:05:53.140I can't recall the third one, but they're somewhere in the middle between the Sasanids and the Pahlavi dynasty.
00:05:59.820And it's those three dynasties that were truly the greatest ones in Iran.
00:06:08.160So I'll have to look into that, but that's a very, very interesting statement.
00:06:14.100You might not be wrong there. You might not be wrong. I mean, my, my expertise, let's say, is more modern Iranian history, you know, starting from like the 1850s, up until the present day, I have read and looked into, you know, ancient, ancient Iranian history as well, but I'm just not as up to speed with the details, like on the spot as I am with with modern Iranian history.
00:06:40.580so i'm going to make a note of that major and i'm going to go back and uh and look that up
00:06:46.100because that's a very interesting very interesting statement um that you're making
00:06:53.140so what was it the rr sasset maybe maybe it was the r sasset okay okay it was the it was
00:07:01.300the r sasset okay i think that's the one that's the one yeah okay all right guys so let's try
00:07:08.100continuing this documentary i'm going to play it at 1.25 speed so you know if the sound is a little
00:07:15.140bit off that's going to be why um but hopefully this isn't going to catch the um the you know
00:07:24.820copyright um algorithm evolution asadullah alam the shah's most trusted advisor and friend passed
00:07:35.140away. The cause of his death, ironically, was cancer of the blood. Alam's death, particularly
00:07:40.260dying of the same illness, immensely weakened the Shah, both physically and emotionally.
00:07:45.140Basically, the Queen took over and they always believed that the Shah is very much hated,
00:07:49.780the Queen is very much loved, and so if the Shah goes, they can take over, and they never put any
00:07:56.820value on religion. With the backing of a small obscure committee created to counsel the Queen
00:08:02.580a few years earlier, the ailing king's condition paved the way for the Empress Farah to begin
00:08:07.060making critical national decisions. They released all the communists, all the prisoners, and they
00:08:11.620put their own people in jail. This is Mrs. Farah's move. I said, if you think this lady,0.65
00:08:17.860the Windsor Queen, or your son could take your place, I'm sorry to say you're mistaken. If you go,
00:08:24.900everything which was done, it probably would be blood in the streets. If you go,
00:08:29.780all the people who has served you with their heart and loyalty they would be those who would
00:08:35.540not say good thing about you i think most of it was queen and her entourage i really think those
00:08:40.740days those decisions were imposed on the shah and it wasn't him who had taken the initiative
00:08:50.500isn't that her role though like he literally crowned her as empress right so for the first
00:08:56.660time in over a thousand years iran had an empress um isn't that her role and responsibility if the0.73
00:09:04.100shah is sick of course it's it's her responsibility to help run the country right so i don't see why
00:09:12.980that's a criticism here betrayed by friends at home and abandoned by allies abroad the shah0.68
00:09:18.980was faced with the country on the brink of collapse this is the wonder oven pro from our0.52
00:09:24.500our next generation non-toxic at the time that the shah was meeting his new civilian government0.83
00:09:30.680this past weekend he was aware that the u.s had made its decision it was a subtle decision it
00:09:36.020did not constitute a public disavowal of the shah nor in any way call for his abdication
00:09:40.600the decision was simply to instruct u.s ambassador sullivan that the next time the shah asked for
00:09:45.600advice on whether or not to take a vacation the advice should be by all means yes this was done
00:09:50.940in the full knowledge that if the shah leaves he may never get back so that's really important
00:09:56.540right like like they are confirming that the shah never abdicated right that's really important
00:10:02.700because that kind of gets into um that gets into the whole you know the shah abdicated and left0.75
00:10:09.660and that's a lie that the communists and the islamists love to push out there um as a way to
00:10:16.540delegitimize um the uh the the current shah of iran who's in exile right because again
00:10:24.220his royal highness was aphalabi when he was um i believe he was 20 years old as soon as as
00:10:30.300soon as his father the late china passed away um he swore the succession oath in cairo so
00:10:38.060that's a really important fact guys the the shah never abdicated not even when he left iran for
00:18:05.800It is not known how long the Shah will stay in Egypt or when he will arrive in the United States.0.59
00:18:10.100Early today, three of his children and his mother-in-law arrived in Texas near Lubbock to join the Shah's son there.
00:18:15.040It is believed that the Shah and his family will take up temporary sanctuary in the Palm Springs, California, estate of publisher Walter Annenberg, where the Shah's sister and mother now are staying.
00:18:25.100The Shah had lost his throne, but the crisis of Iran was just beginning.
00:18:30.360He remained in Egypt only for about five days.
00:18:34.220It's interesting that Dr. Flandrean came to Aswan to do a blood campaign.
00:18:38.000I also want to point it out, like, it was only when the Shah left that things got really
00:22:17.840President Carter was put on notice for the first time and knew from this point on that allowing the shot into the U.S. would cause harm for U.S. personnel stationed in Iran.
00:22:25.960With that trouble in Tehran, the government of Morocco and King Hassan felt very uncomfortable in him staying in Morocco and asked him to leave.
00:22:41.280But where was he going to go? Nobody wanted to take him. They were afraid of reprisals.
00:22:47.840And finally, with the intervention of the Princess Ashraf, his twin sister, and Henry Kissinger, and David Rockefeller, they prevailed upon the government of the Bahamas.0.93
00:23:02.780Powerful friends were able to get the Shah and his entourage
00:23:15.700temporary safe haven in the Bahamas0.96
00:23:17.400Exorbitant sums were charged for the royal stay
00:23:21.280The king and queen did not enjoy their new residence
00:23:26.160Their quarters were cramped and afforded little privacy
00:23:28.580The Shah swam in the tropical waters and took strolls down the beach, but his health was
00:23:35.840continually deteriorating. Rockefeller employee Robert Armeo was sent to the Bahamas. From there
00:23:42.860on, Armeo would become the king's main advisor, handler, spokesman, and chief of staff.0.94
00:23:51.220Blue skies and clear waters did not change the fact that the Shah was sick.0.54
00:23:58.580Dr. Flandrand came to see him in the Bahamas and that was the first time that the Shah's illness
00:24:05.460seemed to become more severe. Apparently while he was in the Bahamas, he had developed a lymph
00:24:10.900node in his neck and they had done a needle biopsy and had made a diagnosis of Hodgkin's
00:24:15.300disease. Needle biopsies are really not a good way to make a primary diagnosis of lymphoma.
00:24:20.500They had contended that it was because of the nature of secrecy that they were not able to get
00:24:25.140a genuine biopsy an excisional biopsy i find that a little hard to believe because taking the lymph
00:24:31.300node out from the neck is a rather simple procedure i was surprised that the french
00:24:35.780hematologist was treating the sha for a hematologic problem a malignant problem without a proper
00:24:43.780diagnosis and in secret i actually have heard this um from several several iranian historians um that
00:24:55.540allegedly the the french doctors who had been diagnosing and treating him in secret for a while
00:25:02.740um had misdiagnosed him on purpose and were like mistreating him on purpose or something i don't
00:25:09.140know if it's true or not but that's what is said by some iranian historians and they say the reason
00:25:14.820that he was like misdiagnosed and wasn't treated properly by the french is because the french um
00:25:20.420had khomeini in exile right and they were trying to get khomeini to go back to um iran so i mean
00:25:28.900i don't know um how how true that is again like those are just what i've heard from from iranian
00:25:35.460sources um so take it with a grain of salt but i'm sure you know some of the iranians in the
00:25:40.420chat can can comment on that in the youtube chat doing chemotherapy without a tissue diagnosis
00:25:45.540a mistake. The disease, which had previously been a more benign cancer in 1974, was becoming more
00:25:57.020malignant and required more active treatment, preferably in a hospital. They thought that he
00:26:03.060had a lymphoproliferative disorder and now a low-grade lymph malignancy of non-Hodgkin's
00:26:07.620variety, and now they thought he had Hopkins disease. Now, instead of being chronic lymphatic
00:26:12.240leukemia had turned into a large cell lymphoma which is a more dangerous disease with the1.00
00:26:22.400guys i just want to point out something uh you know this is the idiocy and the stupidity of the0.99
00:26:27.360trolls in the chat so um this guy named ali khan so obviously he's not iranian i'm assuming he's0.98
00:26:33.360like pakistani or something because no iranian has a last name khan anyway he said the shah
00:26:38.560conspired in killing the ayatollah's father um if anyone bothers to go and read history0.94
00:26:45.920um the ayatollah's father died when the ayatollah was a kid okay so i mean it's just a ridiculous1.00
00:26:55.440statement to make but you know this is the low iq um idiots who push out all these false statements1.00
00:27:04.640without any facts, without any knowledge, without anything, right? Because again, just the word1.00
00:27:09.820Pahlavi instills such fear in them that they start howling like rabid animals. Why? Because
00:27:18.400Shah was a big reason why Islamists did not gain power in the Middle East. So, I mean,0.98
00:27:27.180they will throw anything and everything they can. And it's usually like, you know,
00:27:31.880the weird Pakistani box or whatever um so yeah like just this is a low level you know iq1.00
00:27:40.040nonsense that we iranians constantly deal with from from non-iranians who try and like0.98
00:27:45.800put out like a bunch of of islamist nonsense about our shah
00:27:50.320a much more serious outcome chronic lymphocytic leukemia is a type of cancer that starts with0.90
00:27:58.480certain white blood cells in the bone marrow. These cancer cells travel from
00:28:02.020the marrow into the blood. The size of the cancer cells is one classification
00:31:55.420and withholding critical information about his illness.
00:31:58.280Ben had worked with the Rockefellers for a number of years
00:32:00.740and that the Rockefellers were good friends of the Shah
00:32:03.580and they implored him to bring him to New York.
00:32:08.280Should I? Should I switch to Brave? Okay, I'll do that. I'll do that. I have Brave on my phone, but I don't have it on my laptop. Maybe I'll do that for the next one.
00:32:21.080shaw in mexico uh they had the facilities at their hospital we have the best private
00:32:26.520hospital in mexico we have the facilities to go i actually don't mind the commercials right now
00:32:31.960because um i'm worried about being copyrighted right even though i'm literally just playing a
00:32:38.200documentary um and giving comments and feedback on it so you know like i'm literally at um like my
00:32:46.120playback speed i'm at 1.25 right like i'm at 1.25 so that you know it helps with you know maybe i'll
00:32:54.600bring it down to 1.15 um let's see what happens there right all right so i'm at 1.15 but i'm
00:33:03.720hoping that this will kind of prevent it from being copyrighted or something which is again
00:33:08.440the most bizarre thing because the first time it happened stream went down but then i appealed it
00:33:14.360and now that stream is back up. So I know it's not an issue and it's never an issue, but yeah,
00:33:23.080that's why I'm just keeping the commercials here. The diagnosis, we had the facilities
00:33:26.760to perform surgery. Dr. Flandron initially thought that the Shah could be treated in Mexico.
00:33:33.800He inspects the hospital in Mexico City and gives a favorable report to our mail,0.65
00:33:38.120who responds to Dr. Flandron, for a patient like his majesty, this is not enough. We have
00:33:42.840to go for the best and only the united states can provide the best and apparently dr king's
00:33:49.000thought the mexican facilities were inadequate dr keen the only american physician to have
00:33:54.360personally examined the shop was at this point in direct talks with state department's chief medical
00:33:58.840officer dr even dustin recalling these events in his book dr keen highlights five distinct
00:34:04.360conditions all demanding immediate treatment the shaw's cancer and enlarged spleen were included
00:34:09.000in the report answering the question of how much time the shah has dr keen reiterates days maybe
00:34:14.840weeks we do not have months when asked if he can treat the shah in mexico dr keen replies
00:34:20.120not as easily or as quickly but it could be done i was in washington dc i visited the state
00:34:27.400department then having dinner with dr even dustin we're talking about the facilities for operating
00:34:32.120in mexico and i said we do have that we had everything ready at the abc hospital according
00:34:36.840to him we are ready to to bring him over and then all of a sudden he was called over the phone and
00:34:43.320you have a ct scan in mexico i said no we don't have but we don't need it we we can make a
00:34:47.880diagnosis with regular ultrasound which we did at the time for everybody with gold stones we
00:34:53.720always use ultrasound and then after he went back to the phone and i went that was it and i have no
00:35:01.240idea if the shaw ever made a decision himself he took dr keen's uh word for most of the thing but
00:35:07.560at that time when this happened i had already done two operations i had operated on two ambassadors
00:35:12.760to the u.s so they knew that i was a board certified surgeon and i had been trusted to
00:35:20.360operate on the u.s ambassador to mexico what more truth of confidence you needed you need me back
00:35:28.920in parliament i was in parliament for seven years and uh you know politics for 10 but in parliament
00:35:35.480as elected official for seven i'm just like i'm taking a breather it's kind of nice being1.00
00:35:41.160a private citizen and being able to say what i want to say and call out all of the islamists0.97
00:35:46.120right um i'll think about it i'll think about it but right now like i'm just i'm really focusing on0.97
00:35:53.000raising awareness about radicalism and and islamic terrorism right
00:36:01.400but thank you for the kind words jay i appreciate that
00:36:06.600i felt that and so did henry kissinger who and also in no room and worked with me on this
00:36:14.360worked together, we felt that at the very least he should be invited to find refuge in the United
00:36:24.040States. And what about the Rockefellers? What was their interest in the Shah's affairs?1.00
00:36:29.640Chase Manhattan Bank, which was owned by the Rockefellers and on whose board Henry Kissinger
00:36:34.120sat, was the exclusive bank to the Shah's government. The main accounts for the Central
00:36:38.440Bank of Iran as well as the National Iranian Oil Company were held at Chase.
00:36:41.800President Carter was very reluctant to admit the Shah, because he knew all the possibilities.0.56
00:57:53.540Most of it was immediately taken by the banks
00:57:55.380to offset loans made to the Shah that weren't being paid.
00:57:58.520Foreign branches of American banks had the largest amount, $4 billion worth, mostly held at the Chase Manhattan-London branch.
00:58:05.540Freezing that money was especially contentious because European banking laws did not allow the government freezing of assets to offset business losses.
00:58:13.380Finally, U.S. corporations had frozen Iranian money, $500 million worth, which Iran never gained access to.
00:58:20.000As for outstanding loans or claims against the frozen assets, they totaled nearly $10 billion.0.55
00:58:24.480dollars that's roughly 50 billion in today's dollars but no one knew for sure the shah's
00:58:31.200wealth was the second part of the financial deal to get the hostages back the islamic government
00:58:35.600wanted that money too by some estimates it ranged in the billions of dollars with only
00:58:40.560about a tenth of that physically located in this country the u.s had no legal right to touch that
00:58:44.880money the financial aspects of the hostage crisis were never publicly discussed
00:59:06.320there were at least 275 lawsuits aimed at getting iranian money
00:59:09.600The United States government at that time was convinced that the Shah had to leave the
00:59:19.800United States, and I think the Shah himself said to ensure the fact that the hostages
00:59:27.040were not endangered, he knew that he had to leave.
00:59:29.920They told him, you are not welcome anymore, your visa has expired.
00:59:33.160Frantically, they began to look for another place that he might go, again, that where came up, and again, the delay in treatment.
00:59:45.380The Shah thought he would be allowed back in Mexico.
00:59:48.520Mexican people have told President López Obrador, if we are not good to treat him, we are not good to rescue him.0.91
00:59:56.740The risk posed by the Shah's presence in the U.S. was such that President Carter
01:00:00.960sent his chief of staff, Hamilton Jordan, in an exhaustive search for possible countries to admit
01:00:05.740the Shah. They began negotiations with Panama, but in the meantime, they decided that they should go
01:00:13.540to an air base in Texas, where he and the Queen were allowed to establish their quarters.
01:00:20.620The transferal from New York to Lackland was arranged under tight security. The confined
01:00:25.640quarters the psychiatric wing of the military base finally generated a vocal
01:00:29.960complaint by the Queen ironically the ill treatment and misdiagnosis of the shot
01:00:34.640up to that point or afterwards did not warrant such an outward display from her
01:00:38.400but meanwhile the spleen became larger the blood count became worse is and it
01:00:45.200was evident that his spleen had to come out the main concern was to get a shot
01:00:48.740of the US then they went to Iranians to to give it words of killing and one0.92
01:00:54.260American every 24 hours. Arrangements were made to fly him to Panama with his entourage and he was0.93
01:01:01.320flown to Contadora Island. The Shah was led in with the understanding that the reason for his0.93
01:01:09.440visit was medical and for humanitarian purposes only. After the taking of the American hostages,
01:01:15.600medical or humanitarian grounds did not warrant his presence in the U.S.
01:01:24.260With his pride injured, the fallen monarch arrived in Panama City and was flown by helicopter
01:01:36.120to the Pacific resort island of Contadora, 35 miles southwest of the capital.
01:01:43.600The king and queen found comfortable respite in the vacation home of former Panamanian
01:02:15.440We were informed by Dr. Carlos Garcia that the Shah was going to have an operation because
01:02:20.020Dr. Garcia and Dr. Rios, Adán Ríos, had been taking care of the shock.
01:02:25.040And his blood count was very low and that he needed to have his spleen out because it was destroying his blood cells.
01:02:32.760Dr. Keen came down and initially thought that he would be treated at Gorgas Hospital, which was in the Panama Canal zone and was an American administrative hospital.
01:02:44.300The Panamanians felt that he could be treated as well as in a Panamanian hospital.
01:02:48.220And so the next morning, they called the Gorgas Army Hospital director and asked for the Shah to be transferred.
01:02:55.240Of course, it was denied because the American government did not want the Shah anywhere near any American facility
01:03:02.360or any American doctor or anything that smelled USA to protect the hostages in Tehran.
01:03:09.880We were so shocked by this question of hostages that I even volunteered to leave New York Hospital
01:03:14.840or when I was under treatment to eventually help solve this problem and this time in panama they
01:03:21.880wanted to do the surgery and the physician in panama wanted to do that they asked let us do it
01:03:29.560but ashraf his sister he said no i want an american physician to do this we had prepared to do the
01:03:36.120surgery on a sunday morning very early also we had negotiated through the american embassy
01:03:42.360and the U.S. Army to have a blood separator sent to Panama. At that time, that was a very
01:03:46.920new type of equipment with Dr. Gene Hester, who was a hematologist in Houston, and they had about
01:03:53.40010 U.S. soldiers of his blood type set up there, just fresh blood. The aim was processing large
01:03:59.640volumes of normal donor blood to collect and concentrate sufficient granulocytes
01:04:04.280for replacement therapy on leukemia patients, a technique Dr. Hester had been involved in
01:04:08.840developing since the early 70s so we seem to have everything going very well when all of a sudden
01:04:16.200we got an article from new york where dr keen had stated that cha would be admitted that weekend to
01:04:22.360the panamanian hospital for a splenectomy and then on wednesday dr debakey made a statement
01:04:28.760to the press that he was coming because nobody in panama knew how to take care of his spleen
01:04:33.000Dr. Keene decided that Dr. DeBakey should be a surgeon rather than the Panamanian surgeon.
01:04:41.700But Dr. DeBakey was not a spleen surgeon.
01:04:44.720He was a very noted and deservedly noted cardiovascular surgeon, world famous.
01:07:44.240I said, Dr. Garcia de Paredes, but Dr. DeBakey goes all over the world operating on people.
01:07:49.060And I told him, this is not Afghanistan, you know.
01:07:51.160settled on a miniature chair in a foreign land far removed from the peacock throne
01:07:59.900once again the king's indecisiveness had created a vacuum for others to make important decisions
01:08:05.540about his affairs i think i've tried about 38 600 pans this one is definitely my favorite i've
01:08:12.720watched a lot of documentaries on teflon and they scare the shit out of me this is toxin free
01:08:18.680And it went back and forth between Dr. Flan Tran, DeBakey, Keane, the Panamanian surgeons, to where would the operation take place and who would do it, when it would be done. Meanwhile, the spleen was getting worse.
01:08:35.320Dr. King told the Shah in Panama that they didn't want to have the operation in Panama
01:08:50.000because he didn't trust the Panamanian surgeons.
01:08:52.060And he was afraid that the Iranians would pay General Torrijos for us to kill him during
01:08:59.680And General Torrijos had told us, if the Shah dies, you're all going to jail.0.66
01:09:03.820And Ben Keene was there manipulating all the way around.
01:09:08.820In terms of the facilities that I found there, I recommended that the operation not be done there because I felt it would increase the risk.
01:09:15.820And Dr. DeBakey never even went to see our operating rooms or any installation in the hospital.
01:09:21.820He never, he just came and we met in the library and that's where we had our meeting, that's the only time he was in our hospital.
01:09:28.820how can he say all these things he never even walked in to see our recovery rooms or or anything
01:09:34.820meanwhile the government of iran had arranged for a this is crazy it's like the the doctors0.73
01:09:41.540are like you know having a meltdown meanwhile the shah is like literally dying this is
01:12:31.520After a six-hour delay, the sick, feverish king was allowed to proceed, oblivious to
01:12:36.800the danger that had just passed, and helpless in stopping what was about to come.0.79
01:12:41.420No, I'm pretty sure the Shah was not oblivious to the danger that had just passed.0.86
01:12:47.420He literally left Panama because he knew what was happening, and he left before they could0.91
01:12:53.560extradite him back to the Islamic Republic.
01:13:06.800with you gentlemen and ladies yes i love how the president you know sadat is just like yes like0.57
01:13:16.560he's basically telling the reporters to like you know shut up um sadat was a good friend of
01:13:23.520of the shah and you know guys i can tell you um you always know who your friends are because
01:13:30.640they're the ones who stick with you during the most difficult parts of your life right like
01:13:37.980everyone wants to be your friend when things are going well and you know you you have a lot of
01:13:42.540power or control or whatever the case might be um but your true friends are those who are there with
01:13:50.520you in your time of need remember that always guys that's such an important important life lesson and
01:13:58.360We're seeing it right here with the Shah of Iran, where in his time of need, it was Anwar Sadat and basically Richard Nixon, who had his back.
01:15:58.300Usually when we do a splenectomy, especially in cases like this, we leave a drain to make sure that everything is able to drain out which doesn't belong there.
01:16:09.300especially since there's a very close relationship to the pancreas.
01:16:15.300The pancreas is the thing you have to pay a good deal of attention to
01:19:25.220According to Dr. DeBakey's account, the Shah's bone marrow and blood were back to normal, to the point that he was ready to continue chemotherapy.
01:19:31.860Now, the gold standard therapy at that time was CHOP, and we had developed a therapy called