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  Pahlavi language on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Pahlavi is the form of the Persian language that followed Old Persian and preceded Modern Persian.
Reza Pahlavi of Iran discusses the Persian Gulf with the National Geographic.
Reza Pahlavi Urges EU to Invest in the Process of Change in Iran; Declares Regime Change in Iran as Imminent.
www.encyclopedia.com /html/P/Pahlavil.asp   (237 words)

  
 FORWARD : News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Pahlavi said that his profile has risen in recent years, not so much because he decided to be more outspoken and hired a lobbyist, but because the Middle East has become the focus of world attention, thus providing him with more exposure.
Pahlavi shares the hawks' assessment that the regime in Tehran cannot reform itself and that it only understands "a message of strength" and should not be engaged diplomatically with the United States.
Pahlavi contends that the concept of an Islamic democracy promoted by the mullahs is a contradiction in terms and that the debate raging between reformists, including Iranian President Mohammad Khatami, and conservatives is just for show.
www.forward.com /issues/2003/03.05.30/news7.html   (896 words)

  
 IranAndWorld.Com - Subpage
Pahlavi, 41, is seizing the moment and campaigning from afar for the return of the monarchy.
Pahlavi's father, who fled from country to country on an ignominious journey that landed him briefly in the United States for cancer treatment and finally in Egypt, where he died the next year.
Pahlavi believes the regime is vulnerable to nonviolent resistance, pointing to the defection in recent years of prominent clerics.
iranandworld.com /arch-170.asp   (977 words)

  
 Democracy according to Mr. Reza Pahlavi
Pahlavi’s democratic pretensions, the fact that on the one hand he claims to stand for true pluralism in Iran, and yet, on the other hand, is quick to brand any one who sides with Khatami and his reform movement as falling into a “good cop, bad cop” gimmick.
Pahlavi who likes to see the entire population on the march again, thus fully recycling the paradigm of “heroic society,” to borrow a term from the philosopher McIntyre, albeit with a secularist and royalist twist.
Pahlavi, and his warning may be revealing of the difficulty of turning the wheel of royalist elitism to popular democracy, no matter what the discrete charm of palace bourgeoisie.
www.payvand.com /news/02/dec/1066.html   (903 words)

  
 PRINCE REZA PAHLAVI TELLS EUROPE TO STOP SUPPORTING AYATOLLAHS
Pahlavi said Europe in particular and the Western press in general tend to portray the Iranian President Hojjatoleslam Mohammad Khatami as "moderate", but they forgot that it is under his governance that tens of political and intellectuals dissidents had been jailed, several murdered and more than 80 publications shut, without Mr.
Pahlavi said the struggle in Iran is not between the conservatives and the so-called reformers, "but between a people that want democracy, freedom, prosperity and secularism and a theocracy that want to rule by the sword, blood and gun".
Pahlavi, whose father was overthrown by the Islamic revolution of 1979, said he is not fighting for the return of monarchy to Iran, but a parliamentarian democracy.
iran-press-service.com /articles_2002/Dec_2002/reza_pahlavi_31202.htm   (599 words)

  
 Iran News - Pahlavi backs "axis of evil" speech but opposes attack   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Pahlavi pointed out that Bush took pains in his "axis of evil" speech late last month to separate the Iranian people from the Tehran regime and had referred to the Iranian "people in search of their freedom who are still led by force."
Pahlavi, who remains active in the exiled opposition, urged fellow Iranians and the international community not to be conned by the reformist stance of Iranian President Mohammad Khatami had failed.
Pahlavi, whose late father ruled Iran with an iron fist and US support until he was toppled by the 1979 Islamic revolution, said he wanted to be a catalyst for forces committed to democratic change.
iranmania.com /News/ArticleView?NewsCode=8981&NewsKind=CurrentAffairs   (1108 words)

  
 IranAndWorld.Com - Subpage
In a telephone interview, Pahlavi says he wants to be a "catalyst" to help Iranians achieve the full democracy they have never experienced in more than 2,500 years of recorded history.
Support for the younger Pahlavi is also a form of social protest against religious restrictions that, though eased significantly in recent years, still prohibit public drinking of alcohol, dancing and women appearing with their hair uncovered.
Pahlavi is a fresh and clean-shaven face for those fed up with being ruled by bearded clerics and disappointed that reforms championed by Iranian President Mohammad Khatami have been blocked by religious conservatives.
iranandworld.com /arch-52.asp   (1148 words)

  
 Pahlavi   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The Pahlavi script was used broadly in the Sasanid Persian Empire to write down Middle Persian for secular, as well as religious purposes.
The word Pahlavi, refering to the script of Middle Persian, itself is a borrowing from Parthian (parthau "Parthian" --> pahlaw; the semivowel glide r changes to l, a common occurrence in language evolution).
The third category of Pahlavi, Psalter script, was used to write down a Middle Persian translation of the Psalter, and it took advantage of some improvements such as the absence of heterograms and further distinguishment of letters.
www.worldhistory.com /wiki/P/Pahlavi.htm   (609 words)

  
 AncientScripts.com: Pahlavi
3rd century BCE to 9th century CE The Pahlavi script was used to record the Pahlavi or Middle Persian language that was spoken in pre-Islamic Iran between 3rd century BCE and 9th century CE.
Pahlavi evolved from the Aramaic script, and so it retained the right-to-left writing direction.
The Pahlavi script continued to be written for the next 300 years, but it was slowly phased out by an Arabic-derived alphabet modified for Persian.
www.ancientscripts.com /pahlavi.html   (370 words)

  
 Reza Pahlavi the son of the shah of Iran on ideas for democracy
Any change, syas Reza pahlavi, would be superficial to help lift US sanctions or improving trade to serve the interest of the ruling elite, and not for the benefit of millions of impoverished Iranians.
The candle-lit vigil held by many Iranians, men and women of all ages and all walks of life, on the night of September 11 for the American victims, was a liberal phenomenon using western Christian symbols, like candles, in defiance of the regime and risking arrest by the revolutionary guard.
Reza Pahlavi described to me how the Clergy regime, after such reports were published, sent their police around the houses confiscating satellite dishes.
www.mideastnews.com /Reza0202.html   (2580 words)

  
 Mohammad Reza Pahlavi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
His Imperial Majesty Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi (Persian: محمدرضا شاه پهلوی;) (October 26, 1919 – July 27, 1980) holder of the deferential title Aryamehr ("Light of the Aryans"), was the last Shah of Iran, ruling from 1941 until 1979.
His father, Reza Pahlavi, (1877–1944), had risen from the post of Minister of War to that of Prime Minister, before he was elected by the National Assembly (parliament), also known as the Majlis of Iran, as Shah of Iran in 1925, starting the Pahlavi dynasty.
Prior to Reza Pahlavi's ascension, the kingdom of Iran had been feeling the gradual encroachment of two expanding empires: Russia and Britain.
www.bonneylake.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Mohammad_Reza_Pahlavi   (1221 words)

  
 KRSI: Radio Sedaye Iran راديو صدای ايران
Pahlavi's approachable and cordial style as he signed books and chatted with students could not mask his deep passion for his country and his overwhelming anticipation of imminent change in Iran.
Reza Pahlavi, the former Crown Prince of Iran and son of the late Shah, arrived on campus on March 8th to speak to a group of eagerly awaiting students and faculty.
Pahlavi passionately stressed that events that happen in Iran have a strong impact on the rest of the region.
www.krsi.net /news/detail.asp?NewsID=1050   (906 words)

  
 Mohammad Reza Pahlavi - Open Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi (October 26, 1919 - July 27, 1980)(in Persian:محمد رضا پهلوی; was the last Shah of Iran, ruling from 1941 until 1979.
His father, Reza Pahlavi, (1877-1944), was Minister of War and then Prime Minister before he was elected by the Iranian Assembly as Shah in 1925, starting the Pahlavi dynasty.
His second wife was Soraya Esfandiary Bakhtiari (June 22, 1932-October 26, 2001), daughter of Khalil Esfandiary Bakhtiari, Ambassador of Iran to the Federal Republic of Germany, and his German wife, Eva Karl; they married in 1951 and divorced in 1958 when it became apparent that she could not bear children.
open-encyclopedia.com /Mohammad_Reza_Pahlavi   (706 words)

  
 Pahlavi - Introduction
Arsacid Pahlavi was the official language of the Arsacid dynasty of Parthia, which ruled from 250 B.C. to 226 A.D.; it did not die out with the dynasty.
The Sasanian or Southwest Pahlavi was the official language of the Sasanian dynasty, which ruled from 226 A.D. until the Mohammedan conquest in 652.
The best texts, then available, of all the known Pahlavi rock-inscriptions had just been collected by Thomas, mostly from the recent copies made by Flandin and Coste; and the bilingual inscription of Shahpuhar I, in a cave at Haji-Abad near Persepolis, was selected by Haug as the most complete and legible of the longer inscription.
www.farvardyn.com /pahlavi.php   (2745 words)

  
 Reza Pahlavi of Iran discusses the Persian Gulf with the National Geographic
WASHINGTON, Dec. 6 /PRNewswire/ -- Reza Pahlavi of Iran was received, on Friday, December 3rd, by John M. Fahey, Jr., President and CEO, of the National Geographic Society for the purpose of bringing clarity to the issue of National Geographic's recent usage of a secondary name (Arabian Gulf) for the Persian Gulf.
Pahlavi that his organization was respectful and fully cognizant of the level and depth of sentiment among Iranians on the matter, disclosing that his organization was in the midst of an in depth study and reflection on the merits of the use of a secondary name for the Persian Gulf.
Reza Pahlavi, who has been leading a campaign of political defiance against the Theocracy of Iran, is the former Crown Prince of Iran.
www.prnewswire.com /cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/12-06-2004/0002583221&EDATE=   (350 words)

  
 PAHLAVI - LoveToKnow Article on PAHLAVI   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
It is most suitable to confine the word, as is now generally done, to designate a kind of writingnot only that of the Pahlavi books, but of all inscriptions on stone and metal which use similar characters and are written on essentially the same principles as these books.
Thus Ibn Mokaffa', who translated many Pahlavi books into Arabic, tells us that the Persians had about one thousand words which they wrote otherwise than they were pronounced in Persian.3 For bread he says they wrote LHMA, i.e.
In Pahlavi, for example, the word for " female" is written matak, an ancient form which afterwards passed through madhak into mddha.
www.1911encyclopedia.org /P/PA/PAHLAVI.htm   (2519 words)

  
 Pahlavi: No U.S. Position on Iran Is Good Position   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Reza Pahlavi, former Iranian Crown Prince and heir to the fabled Peacock Throne, walks a precarious line as he uses his famous name and a growing nostalgia for the good old bad days of his father’s reign to prod a country now in social and economic chaos towards a referendum for freedom and democracy.
Pahlavi explains the difficulty as owing to the unhappy fact that any time the United States endorses one position, it is the kiss of death for that faction - in terms of how these statements are interpreted domestically and within politics in Iran.
Pahlavi not to overly emphasize his close ties with his adoptive country of America, which is often called "The Evil Satan” in Iran’s halls of power.
www.newsmax.com /archives/articles/2002/8/30/212206.shtml   (1023 words)

  
 Reza Pahlavi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
His Imperial Majesty Reza Shah Pahlavi (Persian: رضا پهلوی;), (March 16, 1877–July 26, 1944), called Reza Shah the Great after his death, was Shah of Persia from 1925 until 1935 and Shah of Iran (as the country was renamed to Iran, the name which had always been used by its people) from 1935 until 1941.
The National Assembly deposed the Ghajar Dynasty in 1925 and Reza Khan's rule was formalized when he was proclaimed Shah by a constituent assembely on December 12, 1925.
Out of his marriage with Taj al Molouk (1896–1982) his son and successor Mohammad Reza Pahlavi of Iran was born.
www.pineville.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Reza_Pahlavi_of_Iran   (588 words)

  
 Iran News - Pahlavi: US overtures should not appease Iran   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
WASHINGTON, Jan 4 (AFP) - Reza Pahlavi, son of the late shah of Iran, said Sunday that any US diplomatic overtures to Iran should not seek to appease "the clerical regime" ruling the country.
Pahlavi spoke with Fox News in the wake of Iran's decision to turn down a US offer to send a high-level humanitarian delegation to the site of last month's massive earthquake in the city of Bam.
Pahlavi said he would like to see an open referendum occur in Iran "so that the people of Iran can democratically decide for themselves what they want."
iranmania.com /News/ArticleView?NewsCode=21290&NewsKind=Current+Affairs   (580 words)

  
 REZA PAHLAVI GETTING MORE POPULAR IN IRAN
Still, Pahlavi, 41, is seizing the moment and campaigning from afar for the return of constitutional monarchy.
In 1979, Ayatollah Roohollah Khomeini directed the overthrow of Pahlavi's father, who fled from country to country on an ignominious sojourn that landed him briefly in the United States, for cancer treatment, and finally in Egypt, where he died the next year.
Despite such ruthlessness, Pahlavi believes the regime is vulnerable to non-violent resistance, pointing to the defection in recent years of prominent clerics.
www.iran-press-service.com /articles_2002/Aug_2002/reza_pahlavi_poluparity_26802.htm   (732 words)

  
 Pahlavi alphabet --  Encyclopædia Britannica   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The Pahlavi alphabet developed from the Aramaic alphabet and occurred in at least three local varieties: northwestern, called Pahlavik, or Arsacid; southwestern, called Parsik, or Sasanian; and eastern.
Pahlavi books were written in a confusing writing system of Aramaic origin called the Pahlavi alphabet.
The Pahlavi Dynasty was founded by Reza Khan, a man of humble origin who had gained control over the elite Cossack Brigade and used it to unify the country under his command.
www.britannica.com /eb/article-9057998?tocId=9057998   (831 words)

  
 NPR's Weekend All Things Considered -- Reza Pahlavi
Pahlavi, 41, is the son of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the late Shah of Iran.
The younger Pahlavi was in America attending college in January 1979, when his father was sent into exile by a popular revolt that swept the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini and hardline Muslim clerics into power.
Pahlavi says he learned several important lessons from the fall of his father's regime.
www.npr.org /programs/watc/features/2002/jan/shah/020119.shah.html   (822 words)

  
 [FREE IRAN Project] In The Spirit Of Cyrus The Great :: View topic - Reza Pahlavi advocates democracy for Iran
Pahlavi said the world needs to be careful not to lend any legitimacy to the current regime, and should focus on supporting the active opposition within the country.
Pahlavi has been a United States resident since 1984, and lives in suburban Washington with his wife and two daughters.
In his 2002 book, "Winds of Change," Pahlavi devotes a chapter to the merits of a constitutional monarchy system, saying that countries like the United King-dom, Japan, and the Netherlands, all have such a system and are clearly democratic.
www.activistchat.com /phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=2071   (1068 words)

  
 History of Iran: Pahlavi Dynasty
n 1921 Reza Khan (later Reza Shah Pahlavi), an officer in Iran's only military force (Cossack Brigade) used his troops to support a coup against the government of Qajar Dynasty.
In 1925 a specially convened assembly deposed Ahmad Shah, the last ruler of the Qajar dynasty, and named Reza Khan, who earlier had adopted the surname Pahlavi, as the new shah.
Pahlavi Dynasty was succeeded by an Islamic government under Ayatollah Khomeini.
www.iranchamber.com /history/pahlavi/pahlavi.php   (1129 words)

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