Goldie Ghamari - Documentary about the Shah of Iran： Rated by an Iranian

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00:02:00.000 well good evening everyone thank you for joining me for our usual evening live streams

00:02:29.900 where we go over documentaries about Iran and myself and a number of other Iranians in the chat,

00:02:37.000 talk about it and answer your questions. And of course, at the end of the documentary,

00:02:41.620 we will provide a rating. I'm Goldie Kumari, and this is the evening, I guess, stream of

00:02:48.660 The Goldie Show. And you know, today's been a very, very busy day for me, surprisingly.

00:02:53.960 you know, every day is busy, but today has been exceptionally busy. I did a podcast

00:03:00.520 with someone named Michael. He goes by the name of, I guess his podcast is called Coptic Cave.

00:03:11.520 He's Egyptian. So I did a podcast there. But before that, I actually went on Piers Morgan.

00:03:16.400 It was my first appearance on Piers Morgan. And I was speaking about the Nigerian genocide.

00:03:21.600 For those of you who follow me on my daily podcasts, you know, at 12 noon Eastern, you've

00:03:28.360 seen my episodes about that. But today I found a very interesting documentary. And the reason

00:03:35.220 that I want to play that is, you know, I'm hopeful, I'm hopeful that we can find a documentary

00:03:42.200 that provides a fair and accurate depiction of who the Shah of Iran really was, what he was like,

00:03:53.820 and also why we Iranians love him and want him to return. And that goes into the breaking news that

00:04:02.540 came out today, right after I finished my daily show, where we can see two Iranians who are

00:04:11.300 dressed in military outfits. This was with the Air Force, it seems. And they go into a subway

00:04:20.580 station in Tehran. Tehran is the capital city of Iran. And they show the lion and sun flag of Iran.

00:04:31.220 Guys, that is the same flag that you are seeing behind me. That is the flag of pre-Islamic Iran. 0.81

00:04:38.420 That is the flag that we Iranians still consider to be our true and real flag.

00:04:45.500 So let me just play this for you guys, because this is actually kind of a big deal.

00:04:51.780 I mean, this is not something that you normally see in Iran.

00:04:56.440 And I actually, you know, in the 15 years that I have been monitoring news and videos and images coming out of occupied Iran, I have never, ever seen anything like this.

00:05:14.200 I have never seen two soldiers with the Atish, that's the military, two soldiers who are dressed in uniform.

00:05:23.320 They have not covered up their identity and they are proudly holding the pre-Islamic flag of Iran, the lion and sun flag.

00:05:34.100 Let's just watch this, guys.

00:05:44.200 i wonder if if anyone can confirm the audio i wonder like no one's really commented on

00:05:54.340 the speaker that they have there right because they have a speaker um i almost get the sense

00:06:00.880 that we're hearing the voice of uh muhammad isa pahlavi shahad shah aryomer the the late shah of

00:06:07.500 iran i feel like that's what we're hearing but if you guys can like for those iranians if you

00:06:14.040 listen and confirm i'd appreciate your feedback on that because um because no one no one has

00:06:20.280 commented on the speaker everyone's commenting on the flag but i have yet um i have yet to hear

00:06:27.240 anyone comment on on the speaker and what the soldiers are broadcasting so um let's just try

00:06:34.920 try to see if you can listen to this

00:06:46.440 okay so so maybe maybe he's using his phone to broadcast into the microphone

00:06:52.520 but the audio is a little bit distorted and i can't tell

00:07:04.920 I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry.

00:07:34.920 so there you go that's the that's the breaking news coming out now unfortunately i do have some

00:07:40.520 bad news um these two brave soldiers have been arrested and detained um so their lives um

00:07:51.000 so you know their lives are at risk they are an imminent danger of being executed by the 0.53

00:07:57.240 islamic republic so i think it's very important to um make sure that we keep we keep this in the

00:08:03.560 news we keep the focus on this because um these two people are have basically risked their lives

00:08:10.760 um to do that again this would be considered treason by the islamic republic you know the very

00:08:16.200 act of holding the pre-islamic flag of iran would be considered a crime against allah and um its 0.82

00:08:24.920 grounds for execution so i know that these soldiers um have been arrested um so it's important we keep

00:08:32.840 we we keep an eye on this and we keep this trending um in in social media um i'm also 0.89

00:08:40.360 going to just block trolls like i don't have time to deal with islamist trolls in the chat

00:08:44.200 right now um okay so so with that we are going to go to today's documentary let me pull that up for

00:08:52.280 you guys here so uh oh we're still gonna here so today's documentary is called the mystery of the

00:09:01.640 last Shah of Iran documentary. Now, of course, he's not the last Shah of Iran because we do

00:09:08.780 currently have a Shah, Rizal Shah II. He swore the succession oath after his father passed away.

00:09:16.380 He swore that on October 30th, 1980, I believe, in Cairo. But anyways, so let's look at the

00:09:24.460 description here. The mystery of the last Shah of Iran. Uncover the mystery of the last Shah of

00:09:28.860 Iran's exile from his country during the, it wasn't the Iranian revolution, it was the Islamic

00:09:35.240 revolution. I hate when they call it the Iranian revolution, because there's nothing Iranian about

00:09:40.500 what happened in 1979. It was an Islamic takeover, and previous documentaries have shown that.

00:09:48.100 So his illness, misdiagnosis, maltreatment, and eventual death, and its impact on the Middle East, 0.86

00:09:54.700 united states and the world so this is a documentary um from 2017 so um let's watch this

00:10:03.980 and uh let's see how this goes let's see how accurate this documentary about shahad shaharyamir

00:10:14.060 is going to be

00:10:24.700 These are the last images that the Shah of Iran saw on the morning of January 16, 1979,

00:10:34.700 on board a military helicopter for what was to be his last trip to Mehrabad International Airport.

00:10:44.700 Few people understood the rationale for his decision to leave the country at such a critical juncture.

00:10:50.700 The King of Kings left this Pahlavi reign and went on to die 19 months later in exile

00:10:58.080 due to medical complications.

00:11:01.500 His departure changed the future history of the Middle East and the world.

00:11:07.540 This is the medical story of that 19-month odyssey which brought about his death.

00:11:37.540 oh this is so hard guys this is hard to watch

00:11:58.260 I mean it's it's like groundhog day right it's like just same horror over and over again but

00:12:06.940 But, jeez. 0.75

00:12:20.480 The Shah's decline from power was a classical tragedy. 0.94

00:12:24.880 But the kingship bestowed upon him overnight 0.91

00:12:27.200 resembled a fairy tale.

00:12:29.720 His father, Reza Shah, the founder of the Pahlavi dynasty,

00:12:34.300 declared neutrality in World War II

00:12:36.180 and denied Iran's use as a transport corridor for the Allies.

00:12:41.200 This stand instigated the Anglo-Soviet invasion

00:12:44.180 and subsequent division of Iran into spheres of influence. 0.70

00:12:49.120 In September 1941, Reza Shah's... 0.80

00:12:52.180 Isn't it wild?

00:12:54.060 Switzerland declared neutrality

00:12:56.040 and the Anglo-Russian influence didn't go into Switzerland and take over,

00:13:03.300 but you know iran declares neutrality and all of a sudden um they they get involved right like do you

00:13:10.980 see the abdication forced by the british brought his 21 year old son muhammad reza pahlavi into

00:13:20.020 power the young shah nearly lost his symbolic reign when in 1953 the prime minister muhammad

00:13:28.580 Mosaddegh nationalized Iran's oil industry and demanded autonomy from Western colonial rule.

00:13:35.820 Okay, so that's not the reason why the Shah removed Mosaddegh. Mosaddegh wasn't actually

00:13:43.580 that's so that's again the communist Islamist lie. So it just seems like this person didn't

00:13:48.220 actually do his research on this. Mosaddegh didn't nationalize the oil industry. The Shah

00:13:56.340 was nationalizing the oil industry, Mossadegh was trying to give the oil industry to the Soviets 0.76

00:14:02.900 because he was a Soviet asset and a Soviet puppet. So that's 100% incorrect there.

00:14:10.980 The Shah dismissed the prime minister, but Mossadegh refused to step aside.

00:14:16.260 Fearing for his life, the young monarch fled Iran into exile in Rome. In his absence, the Iranian 0.72

00:14:23.380 military with support from the american and british intelligence services conducted a

00:14:28.100 covert operation to depose mosaddegh protests erupted on the streets of tehran leaving hundreds

00:14:35.220 dead they don't so he doesn't mention because we saw guys we saw this in the other documentary

00:14:40.740 about mosaddegh these protests these are not um iranians these are the people who are part

00:14:47.300 of the two-day party remember the two-day party was um founded in in moscow and it was funded

00:14:53.780 by moscow so the people you're seeing on the streets here um they are they are basically the

00:14:59.460 russian um russian kgb assets there um switzerland you can't take over exactly right so so major you

00:15:11.060 make a really good point switzerland remained neutral no one went in and and you know took

00:15:16.580 over switzerland or took control of switzerland but iran wants to remain neutral and all of a

00:15:21.540 sudden that's the problem for for the british and the soviets right the double standard there right

00:15:27.540 it's um yeah pro shah tank regiments stormed the capital and bombarded the prime minister's

00:15:35.940 official residence mosaddegh was arrested and on august 22nd 1953 the reluctant shah returned to

00:15:44.020 to iran i mean do you see all the people cheering for the shah like no one wanted musadiq everyone

00:15:48.820 knew musadiq was a traitor musadiq was trying to suspend the constitution and consolidate power

00:15:54.420 so of course the military was going to step in right like people didn't want musadiq they wanted

00:15:59.080 their shah muhammad reza pahlavi began his reign a timid monarch oh uzi love from greece down with

00:16:11.000 the IRGC. Thank you so much. You know, I don't speak, I don't speak enough about Greek people,

00:16:17.580 but I absolutely love Greek people. And I love Greek history. And one of the reasons that I

00:16:25.340 love Greek history is because your historians play a very important role in preserving and

00:16:35.380 maintaining the history of the Persian Empire, because when the Arab Muslim invaders came to

00:16:42.960 Persia in 650 AD, they burned down most of our libraries and, you know, our scrolls and whatever

00:16:49.600 the case might be, right? And so we actually lost a lot of information when the Arab Muslim 1.00

00:16:56.360 invaders came. But we are still able to know about our history. And we're still able to learn

00:17:05.420 about the Persian Empire and the Persian civilization, because of the amazing Greek

00:17:10.780 historians that wrote about us. And, you know, maybe there was beef 3000 years ago, but I feel

00:17:16.840 like today, Iranians and Greeks were very close. One of my best friends is Greek. I've actually

00:17:23.220 visited greece several times beautiful country beautiful history and you know amazing amazing

00:17:30.040 food and culture so thank you so much for that i really appreciate that october 26 1967 26 years

00:17:39.480 into his reign during an extravagant coronation ceremony he designated himself the shah and shah

00:17:46.180 and crown okay so again he's missing the point here so the shah so he even said like guys okay

00:17:52.900 let's go back here because he just said two minutes ago that the Shah came to power in 1941,

00:17:59.680 but he didn't actually have a coronation ceremony until 1967. And the reason he waited 26 years is

00:18:08.700 because he said, I want to make sure that I don't, I don't assume the throne officially, 0.73

00:18:15.160 or I don't coronate myself when Iran is poor. So he basically spent 26 years building up the

00:18:21.800 country, combating illiteracy, building schools, building universities, building infrastructure.

00:18:27.080 And only when Iran was finally on a path to modernization, did he then coronate himself.

00:18:33.540 So, I mean, people need to have the context. No other monarch has waited 26 years before they

00:18:40.340 have their coronation. It's not like he just randomly did this a second or third time. No,

00:18:44.120 no, no. This is a coronation. All other monarchs pretty much have their coronation right away or

00:18:49.180 within a year but the shah of iran waited 26 years found his third wife farah as shah banu

00:18:58.460 this gave the pahlavi dynasty exactly what it was longing for an empress and heirs

00:19:08.860 he pronounced himself the king of kings as he should income combined with western support

00:19:14.780 gave the shah a false sense of comfort ironically the shah came to believe it his mission to change

00:19:21.260 the world order which had placed them in guys i just want to give you a little bit of context

00:19:26.060 into this concept of king of kings right so um the reason that he referred to himself as king of

00:19:31.660 kings is because you know the concept of a king or a shah is is critical to um iranian culture

00:19:39.980 and it plays a really important role and you know one of the things uh you know so so the shah and

00:19:45.180 shah when he's saying king of kings he's basically referring to king of the iranian people so it's

00:19:52.220 it's as if there it's as if he's saying that iranian people are kings in their own right

00:19:58.540 and then he is the king of kings right so that's what it refers to um in in iranian culture our

00:20:05.980 In the old days, you, British and others who had influence here, you could change the prime ministers as you wished.

00:20:14.980 Are you sorry for that time that you have lost?

00:20:19.920 Do you want the same thing, to manipulate our internal affairs? We won't let you.

00:20:25.720 Ending 20 years of U.S. aid to Iran in 1973, 0.93

00:20:29.120 President Nixon gave the Shah full discretionary power

00:20:33.000 to buy almost any American weapons he desired.

00:20:37.000 Nonetheless, the king's appetite for power and arms would not be satiated.

00:20:41.620 If the United States limits the supply of American weapons,

00:20:44.880 would you buy weapons elsewhere?

00:20:46.940 Definitely.

00:20:48.500 The U.S. had invested...

00:20:50.340 So, this guy is making it seem as if the Shah was this, like, warmonger. 0.54

00:20:54.560 The Shah was literally building up the Iranian army in order to combat the threat of Islamism and communism. 0.57

00:21:02.800 Right. So this is weird.

00:21:05.000 Like he's he's throwing all these points in here, but he's not providing any context.

00:21:11.000 And I don't know, guys, but like I have to look up the sky.

00:21:14.220 But from his voice, he sounds pretty young.

00:21:17.320 Like he sounds like a young guy. 0.76

00:21:19.160 Iran invested a great deal in making the Shah's Iranian military regime a frontline

00:21:25.400 against the spread of Soviet influence in the region, though the Shah had other agendas

00:21:30.120 on his mind. 0.54

00:21:32.440 In a race to transform Iran into a major world power within a single generation, he expedited 0.83

00:21:38.940 a grand plan to modernize the country. 0.99

00:21:42.380 By rallying Arab nations to join him in cutting output, world oil prices increased almost 0.96

00:21:48.200 five-fold in 12 months. Iran's GNP expanded by the unsustainable rate of 50 percent per year.

00:21:56.040 The Shah was unmoved by the negative impact of his policies on Western economies.

00:22:01.480 It's true that when we started to defend our interests, the price of commodities also rocketed

00:22:09.160 up by several hundred percents. But this cannot continue. If you increase, we increase. If we

00:22:16.760 increase you increase we have got to find some solution for this the oil revenue windfall

00:22:22.040 financed modernization liberalization and expanded education of iranian society however

00:22:29.400 the political and intellectual awakening of the middle class meant the masses demanded more freedom

00:22:35.160 from the palavi government numerous assassinations freedom right guys again those are the communist

00:22:42.520 agitators right because um the soviet bloc right like iran shared a border with the soviet bloc

00:22:50.520 and so the soviets were constantly trying to bring iran under the iron curtain and the shah

00:22:58.440 prevented that so what the soviets did is they created this party called the two-day party the

00:23:04.200 two-day party was created in moscow it was funded by the soviets and they basically indoctrinated

00:23:10.680 a lot of young people a lot of communists um and so all these riots that you're seeing those aren't

00:23:16.680 regular normal iranian people those are all the communists very similar to um like today's antifa

00:23:24.600 right you know all those like pro-socialist marxist you know whatever um young people who

00:23:31.320 are going into your streets in western countries and protesting against your governments and you

00:23:36.280 you know whatever literally the exact same thing they you know it's it's that same communist

00:23:41.180 mentality mission attempts on the shah did nothing to slow this trend as the rapid modernization

00:23:47.460 continued poor infrastructure you know what i i like how he just literally he like he literally

00:23:53.820 glosses over the fact right where was this where was this he literally just glosses over the fact

00:24:01.840 that they tried to assassinate the Shah of Iran, right?

00:24:06.740 He doesn't talk about who tried to assassinate.

00:24:10.080 He doesn't talk about why or when or how. 0.84

00:24:12.620 Just, you know, despite the assassination attempts, the Shah continued. 0.76

00:24:15.640 It was the communists who tried to assassinate the Shah, guys. 0.94

00:24:19.280 These people are violent and savage. 0.79

00:24:22.400 No one ever talks about that.

00:24:23.620 By the way, the people who tried to assassinate the Shah,

00:24:26.480 the same ones who supported Mossad. 0.71

00:24:28.520 Keep that in mind.

00:24:29.960 Society.

00:24:31.260 However, the political and intellectual awakening of the middle class meant the masses demanded more freedom from the Pahlavi government.

00:24:39.280 It wasn't the masses, guys. Again, it was the communists, right?

00:24:42.520 Because at that point, communism was very, it was very in style, right? 0.92

00:24:50.260 And all these people who were educated, they were educated because of the Shah.

00:24:55.400 Because the Shah was investing in education.

00:24:58.360 He was building 4,000 schools a year.

00:25:00.360 not just schools for young people, but also schools for adults as well. He was also paying

00:25:06.400 for Iranians to go get an education abroad in the United States, right? So he was paying 0.69

00:25:12.560 and investing in the middle class to get educated. It's not like the middle class just

00:25:18.720 randomly got educated. They got educated because of the Shah. And what did they do in return, 0.99

00:25:24.260 guys? What did they do in return? They decided to overthrow the Shah because, you know,

00:25:29.720 communism was in power so all of these people you see here um these are all the communists that

00:25:35.720 ended up overthrowing the shop these are not the regular middle class these are the the ones that 0.82

00:25:42.200 that were educated because the shah wanted to bring the country out of you know poverty and 0.79

00:25:48.120 turn iran into a first world society and you know these students unfortunately turned to communism

00:25:56.280 Numerous assassination attempts on the Shah did nothing to slow this trend.

00:26:02.820 As the rapid modernization continued, poor infrastructure, lack of planning, mismanagement

00:26:08.920 and corruption brought many of the Shah's plans to a halt.

00:26:13.120 Average Iranians were disillusioned.

00:26:16.700 The king had misjudged the oil markets, as well as his own power.

00:26:21.320 As far as threatening to cancel long-standing oil contracts with Western consortiums, coming

00:26:26.700 due in 1979, Iran's economy was in shambles.

00:26:32.420 The Padlevi monarch was losing support at home and abroad.

00:26:37.160 In 1977, the incoming U.S. president, Jimmy Carter, put pressure on the Shah to improve

00:26:43.020 the human rights situation in Iran.

00:26:45.760 Opposition. 0.74

00:26:46.760 So again, the human rights situation in Iran was fine.

00:26:50.200 Like, I speak to my family on both sides, my mother's side, my father's side.

00:26:55.440 There was no issue with human rights. 0.84

00:26:58.140 The human rights violations, again, that's an Islamist communist narrative. 0.98

00:27:03.860 The Shah had banned communism, rightfully so. 1.00

00:27:06.860 Do you know which country just recently banned communism, guys? 0.92

00:27:10.580 Czech Republic.

00:27:12.080 The Czech Republic recently banned communism because they recognize it is an inherent threat

00:27:17.460 to the stability of their democratic society. No one is accusing the Czech Republic of being

00:27:25.900 a dictatorship. But the Shah, in his wisdom, 50, 60 years ago, he recognized the threat of communism,

00:27:33.160 he recognized the threat of Islamism, he banned both of those. And then those people were the 0.98

00:27:39.100 ones who were complaining about, you know, human rights violations, right, because they felt that 0.67

00:27:44.960 their human rights to blow up people in the name of communism or islam was being violated by the 0.91

00:27:52.240 shah and jimmy carter being the idiot that he was believed them and i don't like the fact that um 0.97

00:27:59.760 this documentary is kind of glossing over that part groups saw this as a sign to step up their 0.99

00:28:05.920 pressure they united behind a religious leader ayatollah ruhola khomeini who orchestrated the

00:28:12.380 revolution from exile in france by broadcasting into iran via remember why he was exiled he was

00:28:19.540 initially the the independent courts initially um had his um his his initial sentence was

00:28:28.500 execution right execution for attempting to assassinate again khomeini tried to assassinate

00:28:34.060 the shah he was tried in an independent judicial court he was found guilty so his sentence was um

00:28:41.560 he got a death sentence basically and then the Shah because he was such a graceful human being

00:28:50.680 he pardoned Khomeini and instead of you know giving the death sentence like instead of allowing 0.54

00:28:56.520 the death sentence to go through the Shah said no no no you know what let's just exile the man

00:29:01.600 let's not murder him right that's how gracious and kind the Shah was that's how he that's how 0.95

00:29:08.920 much he tried to appease the communists and islamists what happened this evil demon man 0.94

00:29:17.180 he should have been grateful for the fact right he should have been grateful for the fact that the 0.99

00:29:21.780 shah pardoned him and allowed him to live his life somewhere else what did this evil demon ayatollah 0.90

00:29:30.000 man do he said you know what i'm going to continue i'm going to continue my islamic jihad and he 0.87

00:29:36.620 He literally couldn't. And that's when he started spreading lies about the Shah. Guys, take this as

00:29:42.340 a lesson. Learn from the mistakes that we made as Iranians. Do not trust Islamists. Do not trust 0.94

00:29:49.240 these evil demonic clerics because all they do is lie. They will never be satisfied until 0.98

00:29:56.540 they have control of your countries and they impose Sharia law on you. This evil demon man 1.00

00:30:02.920 It didn't even show a single ounce of gratefulness for the fact that the Shah spared his life. 0.57

00:30:10.500 The Shah's only mistake, guys, I will say this, I will always say this. 0.98

00:30:15.320 His only mistake is that he showed too much mercy and leniency to these Islamic terrorists, right? 0.97

00:30:23.340 Because the Shah assumed that he could negotiate with them. 0.98

00:30:27.160 The Shah assumed that he could deal with them like rational human beings.

00:30:32.920 That's what the Shah did. 0.99

00:30:35.500 And what did the Islamists do in return? 1.00

00:30:38.480 They took over the country and they turned it into a 7th century Islamic hellhole governed 1.00

00:30:43.220 by Sharia law. 1.00

00:30:44.720 Right?

00:30:45.720 Keep that in mind, guys.

00:30:47.220 Western media outlets.

00:30:48.960 Iran was overwhelmed by strikes and riots.

00:30:52.460 The Shah made concessions to the opposition by arresting and imprisoning some of his main

00:30:57.480 supporters, but the protests only grew louder.

00:31:02.100 carter sent in nato commander four-star general robert huyser to ensure the iranian military

00:31:08.340 stood down paving the way for the king to leave the country and khomeini to take his place

00:31:18.260 but what influenced the shah to defy his u.s masters and what persuaded western powers mainly

00:31:24.900 this is again what u.s masters did the show didn't he just literally say a few minutes ago

00:31:32.200 that in 1973 the shah became fully independent from the united states so he just said that in

00:31:39.000 1973 the shah was fully independent now he's once again portraying the shahs like u.s masters this

00:31:45.980 is very very poorly done this documentary is full of contradictions the united states to abandon an

00:31:52.020 old familiar friend in place of political Islam?

00:31:57.260 The answers surprisingly start with the Shah's illness.

00:32:09.780 The prevailing story, as told by the Queen in her book An Enduring Love, contends that

00:32:15.080 the Shah's cancer was first discovered by the French doctors in 1974, who kept it a

00:32:20.280 a secret, even from the king, having only learned of his illness at the very end, sometime

00:32:25.040 around 1977.

00:32:26.040 Well, there was a lot of secrecy as far, and even conspiracy, of silence. Apparently,

00:32:34.040 when the Shah was on one of his vacations on the Isle of Kish water skiing, he noticed

00:32:42.560 a lump in his upper left side. And I think he himself, I understand, thought it was the

00:32:49.200 The Shah shared his pain with his long-time confidant and trusted minister of court, Asadullah Alam.

00:33:19.200 In 1974, world-famous French cancer specialist Dr. Jean Bernard and his lab technician Dr. Georges Flandron were secretly flown into Iran to examine the Shah.

00:33:40.200 When the doctors in France, the specialists, were called, they were not told that they were going to see the Shah.

00:33:49.120 They thought they were being called to see the court minister and aid to the Shah.

00:34:10.200 Dr. George Flandron, the queen's medical voice on the Shah's illness, who throughout

00:34:18.960 her book recounts this story via letters he supposedly sent to his mentor, Dr. Jean Bernard,

00:34:24.700 claims that both French doctors made their diagnosis after looking at the Shah's blood

00:34:28.920 samples under a microscope inside the marble-tiled bathroom of the palace.

00:34:34.200 they did some blood tests, they determined it was a chronic lymphatic leukemia. But the

00:34:42.540 people surrounding the Shah, the court minister, his physicians, other officials felt that

00:34:49.020 it would not be wise to disclose that at that time, even to the Shah. And they told the

00:34:54.820 Shah that not that he had leukemia, which is a form of cancer of the blood, but that

00:35:00.460 He had a disease called Waldenstrom's disease.

00:35:05.460 Dr. Flandron further claims that General Ayadi,

00:35:08.460 the Shah's enigmatic and obscure personal physician

00:35:11.460 who was entrusted with all of his medical decisions,

00:35:14.460 requested that the French doctors

00:35:16.460 refer to the Shah's cancer as Waldenstrom's

00:35:19.460 so that the Shah would not become alarmed at the diagnosis.

00:35:30.460 It was a big issue for you to have malaria.

00:35:35.460 We gave this evidence that we don't have a disease.

00:35:38.460 A quick look up of the word Waldenstrom's in any dictionary would have confirmed it as a type of cancer. 0.96

00:35:44.460 It seems unlikely that they could have used such a trick to hide the illness from the Shah. 0.70

00:35:49.460 Now I don't know what was in the Shah's mind.

00:35:52.460 He might have suspected that he had something more serious, but he did not let on.

00:35:57.460 and it was agreed by all that the public should not know anything but the shot

00:36:07.280 did see other doctors before the French examined him and he knew about his

00:36:11.220 illness why else would he specifically seek the services of a cancer specialist

00:36:18.220 With a great love for skiing, the Shah made regular winter trips to Switzerland and Austria.

00:36:37.620 He would also use these trips as an opportunity for secret annual visits with his primary doctor for check-ups.

00:36:48.220 At the time, radioisotope technology in nuclear medicine used radiation to provide diagnostic

00:37:16.400 information about specific organs or to treat various medical conditions, particularly

00:37:21.640 cancer.

00:37:46.400 I went after Faut al-Hazad, I went there because I had a small job 0.91

00:37:52.020 and then I went to Pellinger and I went to Pellinger and he did a lot of anxiety from this area

00:37:59.180 and then he said that when they arrived in 1968, I was convinced that it was possible that there was an anxiety in the presence 0.98

00:38:10.060 I didn't say anything, but when I came back to the Uyadi, I said that the Uyadi is better than the Uyadi.

00:38:19.060 What they discovered was that they didn't do that at that time.

00:38:23.060 Or the Uyadi's Uyadi's back in the context.

00:38:31.060 On behalf of the Shahbarnu, myself, and the Iranian people, I welcome.

00:38:37.060 government. Why does it matter when the Shah got sick? As the cornerstone of U.S. foreign policy

00:38:45.000 in the Middle East, his mortality embodied the breakdown of American strategy for the future of

00:38:50.500 the region. Iran, because of the great leadership of the Shah, is an island of stability. I just

00:39:00.120 want to say I hope Jimmy Carter is burning in hell. In one of the more troubled areas of the 0.99

00:39:06.720 world. He chose to keep his own illness as a state secret. He kept it secret from his wife,

00:39:13.800 from his own family. For six years, he had cancer. He did not tell his twin sister, Princess Ashraf,

00:39:20.720 and he certainly didn't tell the United States. In fact, at one point, he misled American doctors

00:39:25.400 who were examining his mother and asked about the family medical history. He was under the opinion

00:39:31.400 that uh iranians once they learn about his illness would not be supportive of him as before

00:39:43.320 the interesting part of i have to say guys so far um i am actually pretty happy with the people

00:39:56.520 that we're seeing in this documentary. I mean, the introductory part, I didn't like that,

00:40:03.480 you know, it was a usual like communist sort of Islamist propaganda narrative, just, you know,

00:40:08.280 these points here and there put out without context. But now that we've gone into speaking

00:40:15.740 about the Shah's illness, which is something that we don't really hear about very often,

00:40:22.780 I actually like the fact that the documentary is actually referencing the book that Her Imperial Highness Shah Banu Pahlavi wrote, and I actually like the people that are speaking here because these are all, you know, people who were involved prior to the Islamic Revolution, right?

00:40:46.840 so we're not hearing from communists or jihadis necessarily we're hearing from like iranians who

00:40:53.480 are very familiar with the shah and i actually do like that because we don't hear these sorts

00:40:57.800 of voices very often understanding the psychology of the alpha person is that for every alpha person

00:41:05.880 there are people who really are in a sense conspiring against him you can't have a leader

00:41:14.120 without people wanting to be in his leadership position and when a person starts to feel the

00:41:23.240 noise may stream down

00:41:36.920 oh guys

00:41:44.120 Do you think it'll come back up?

00:42:14.120 All right, let's see if it's going to come back here.

00:42:20.360 Oh, I see myself.

00:42:22.880 I see myself.

00:42:29.760 Okay.

00:42:32.800 All right, guys, we're going to try and continue this.

00:42:37.200 Yeah, it's always a challenge.

00:42:39.520 it's always a challenge right um to to to play this and i kind of have to do it bit by bit so

00:42:49.680 yeah all right guys let's um let's continue weaknesses when they start to feel things

00:42:58.380 going wrong that they can't you know what it is i usually find that it's the background music

00:43:03.380 sometimes like it's just youtube is so strict about these control and by the way control is

00:43:09.080 an essential aspect of being an alpha person the man was getting sicker and

00:43:15.260 sicker I had a gentleman agreement with my beloved king we never should lie to

00:43:21.380 each other I said to him why did you ever didn't tell me the answer was if I have

00:43:27.260 told you you would have gone public as a hundred person I would your people have

00:43:33.420 to know what you have so they would have a sympathy for you they would cry a

00:43:38.700 of blood for you those days i had seen some symptoms or something i really like the fact

00:43:46.780 that this guy um i think he was like a he was one of the ministers of the shah um i like the fact

00:43:53.020 that he has the same flag behind him that i do right like um guys that that's the flag of the

00:44:00.060 good guys right there the lion and sun flag that's the flag that we want think unusual is going on

00:44:06.060 The Queen recalls the unexpected decision by the Shah to involve her and their elder

00:44:11.340 son, the Crown Prince, in meetings with the Prime Minister, Parliament, and Chiefs of

00:44:16.180 Armed Forces.

00:44:18.140 She specifically mentions a visit in 1975 by the French President who expresses his

00:44:23.160 surprise at the speed of growth in Iran.

00:44:27.820 is the live down again

00:44:36.820 I'm having issues on on YouTube guys like this is just

00:44:48.820 you know what it is I think it's the background music

00:44:57.820 i think it's the background music right um the background music maybe seems to be triggering

00:45:06.640 um youtube or something but let's see if it comes back

00:45:11.320 all right this is incredibly frustrating guys

00:45:27.820 So let's see if we come back. I mean, this I'm literally streaming this documentary from YouTube, like this documentary is available on YouTube. That's what's very strange for me.

00:45:45.180 um like

00:45:50.540 let's see if we can get this back online on youtube wow

00:46:02.100 oh i think i'm back okay i'm back on youtube

00:46:07.480 okay all right i am oh i don't know what to do guys should i

00:46:19.560 should i continue or should i leave the rest for another night because with the with the

00:46:30.440 other documentary, we had to do it in two. And, you know, I feel like once, oh, wow.

00:46:42.700 Raider, thank you so much. I appreciate your support, Raider. I really, really appreciate

00:46:47.780 that. Thank you for joining the channel. All right, guys, like, I definitely want to continue.

00:46:57.340 let let's let's let's see how long we can go because with the previous documentary um

00:47:04.240 we have to do it in two parts and i feel like once the documentary gets flagged right once

00:47:13.800 once i get flagged with with these you know uh fake violations it keeps on keeps on going down

00:47:22.280 So, I don't know. I mean, I will, okay, I will continue. I will continue. And if it goes down again, then maybe I might like fast forward a little bit here. Or maybe I should just try pausing and talking more in between. I don't know. But let's see. I will probably have to do this live stream in two parts.

00:47:46.400 The Shah simply replies, my problem is that I haven't enough time.

00:47:50.440 since his illness things change what be so i i have a feeling it's the music guys i have a

00:47:58.380 feeling it's the background music oh which was unbelievable was a man who was ordering

00:48:07.580 arrest and imprisonment of some of the most loyal people to him what did he just say this

00:48:14.840 the did he just say the shah was ordering the arrest and imprisonment of people loyal to him

00:48:19.280 that's that's a complete lie until mr. Alam was alive they couldn't do much but

00:48:31.040 after he died and the Shah became alone you know the the Queen's influence

00:48:36.380 increased tremendously on April 14 1978 less than a year before the Iranian

00:48:42.800 revolution, Asadullah Alam, the Shah's most trusted advisor and friend passed away. The

00:48:49.480 cause of his death, ironically, was cancer of the blood. Alam's death, particularly 0.98

00:48:54.800 dying of the same illness immensely weakened the shot played at 1.5 speed um

00:49:06.720 i don't know if i can do that this way let me see

00:49:12.320 you want me to play it at 1.5 speed

00:49:20.400 okay

00:49:24.800 Let me try something here.

00:49:27.040 18, 19.

00:49:32.980 Okay, guys.

00:49:48.220 Okay.

00:49:48.780 Let me see here.

Goldie Ghamari - November 13, 2025

Documentary about the Shah of Iran： Rated by an Iranian

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