Iran exiles mourn lost era in death of shahs son

Iran exiles mourn lost era in death of shah's son
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Messages of mourning and anger poured out from Iranian emigres Wednesday as word spread of the apparent Suicide of the youngest son of the country’s late monarch. The reported death of 44-year-old Alireza Pahlavi at his home in Boston resonated through Iranian communities around the world as more than just of moment of grief, symbolizing for many another lost link to the era before the 1979 Islamic Revolution toppled the Western-backed shah. In Iran, the...

Death of a Prince: Latest tragedy to hit Iran's dynasty
Whatever it was that sustained Alireza Pahlavi – his money, perhaps, his good looks or even a lingering nostalgia for luxuries and status lost – it ran out this week. With a single squeeze of the trigger, the youngest son of the former Shah of Iran, aged 44 and living in a well-to-do corner of Boston, took his own life on Tuesday. Neighbours in the South End district of Boston won't miss him much, even if they liked to gossip about his royal lineage every once in a while. Almost no o...

Youngest son of former Iranian shah takes his own life in the US
Iran's exile community has expressed its grief after it was confirmed yesterday that the former shah's youngest son took his own life in the United States. The death of 44-year-old Alireza Pahlavi of a gunshot wound at his home in Boston brought home the personal tragedies of many who fled Iran more than three decades ago, and symbolised another lost link to the era of the Western-backed dynasty's Peac ADVERTISEMENT ock Throne. In Iran, the official Islamic Republic News Agency carried a brief...

Son of ex-Iranian shah says brother had depression
BOSTON — The oldest son of the former shah of Iran says his family is grateful for the support it has received since his younger brother committed Suicide after years of battling depression. Alireza Pahlavi was found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound Tuesday at his Boston home. On Wednesday, his brother, Reza Pahlavi, fought back tears as he remembered his younger brother and spoke about how depression has had tragic consequences in his family. Reza Pahlavi said his 44-year-old broth...

Iran exiles mourn shah's son after suicide
(01-05) 06:38 PST Paris, France (AP) -- The apparent Suicide of the former shah of Iran's youngest son has shocked and saddened Iranian emigres, many of whom were forced into exile by the Islamic Revolution and hoped their country's monarchy could one day be restored. The death of 44-year-old Alireza Pahlavi of a gunshot wound at his home in Boston brought home the personal tragedies of many who fled Iran more than three decades ago, and symbolized another lost link to the era of the Western-b...

Iran shah son's remains to be scattered in Caspian Sea
Pahlavi, 44, shot himself to death in Boston on Tuesday after what was described as a long struggle with depression. Prince Reza Pahlavi, the Shah's older son, said there was a worldwide outpouring of support for his family's loss. "We mourn today the succumbing of our beloved Alireza to the weight, pain and daily burdens of this grave illness, and because of its robbing the promise of yet another life, unfulfilled," he said, pausing to regain his composure. Pahlavi said he last spoke with his ...

Iran shah son's remains to be scattered in Caspian Sea
BOSTON | Wed Jan 5, 2011 4:28pm EST BOSTON (Reuters) - Prince Alireza Pahlavi, the younger son of the late Shah of Iran, will be cremated and his remains released into the Caspian Sea, his brother said on Wednesday. Pahlavi, 44, shot himself to death in Boston on Tuesday after what was described as a long struggle with depression. Prince Reza Pahlavi, the Shah's older son, said there was a worldwide outpouring of support for his family's loss. "We mourn today the succumbing of our beloved Ali...

Shah's younger son kills himself
The younger son of the Shah of Iran, Prince Alireza Pahlavi, has killed himself in the US after a long battle with depression, his brother says. Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi said family and friends had been plunged into "great sorrow" at news of the death. "It is with immense grief that we would like to inform our compatriots of the passing away of Prince Alireza Pahlavi," he said in a statement. Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi was ousted in Iran's 1979 Islamic Revolution. Repub...

Shah's son found dead in Boston
The youngest son of the late shah of Iran has apparently committed Suicide at his home in the United States. Police in Boston found a man dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound in the city's South End area. While there has been no official confirmation of his identity, an official said the man was Alireza Pahlavi, 44. His elder brother, Reza Pahlavi, later wrote on his website: "It is with immense grief that we would like to inform our compatriots of the passing away of Prince Alireza Pahlavi....

Shah of Iran's younger son kills himself in US
Source: BBC News 4 January 2011 Last updated at 15:48 ET Shah of Iran's younger son kills himself in US The younger son of the Shah of Iran, Alireza Pahlavi, has killed himself in the US after a long battle with depression, his family says. His brother, former crown prince Reza Pahlavi, said the family had been thrown into "great sorrow" by the news. "It is with immense grief that we would like to inform our compatriots of the passing away of Prince Alireza Pahlavi," a family statement said. Sh...

Son of former Iranian shah found dead in Boston
BOSTON — The youngest son of the late shah of Iran has been found dead of an apparent Suicide at his home in Boston. Reza Pahlavi, the shah’s oldest son, announced the death on his website Tuesday. Pahlavi says his 44-year-old brother, former Iranian prince Alireza Pahlavi, had "struggled for years to overcome his sorrow." Police say they found a man dead from an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound shortly after 2 a.m. Tuesday at a home in Boston’s South End neighborhood. ...

Angry Crowd Forces Israeli Prime Minister to Halt Speech
© Associated Press/Oded Balilty, Pool Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, gestures, as security officers gather around Danny Rosen, center, life-partner of Haifa Police Chief Ahuva Tomer who was killed in last month's massive Carmel Forest Fire, after he interrupted the official ceremony for the fire Victims, in Kibbutz Beit Oren, northern Israel, Wednesday, Jan. 5, 2011. Angry relatives forced Netanyahu to stop his Speech at a ceremony honoring 42 Israelis killed in a huge ...

Iran Escalates Repression Against Sufis
Get alerts when there is a new article that might interest you. Like other tyrannies before it, the Iranian clerical Dictatorship, headed by “supreme leader” Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and the venomous demagogue Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, seeks to frighten and intimidate its subjects by identifying a wide range of alleged internal and external enemies. But the Iranian authorities cannot definitively defeat their main domestic adversaries, because there are, by now, just too many of them. Thus,...

Dutch minister wants detail of Iran death sentence
THE HAGUE, Netherlands - Foreign Minister Uri Rosenthal called on Iran Wednesday to provide details of the case of a Dutch-Iranian woman whose daughter says she has been sentenced to death for Drug Smuggling. Rosenthal said in a statement he was "very concerned" about the fate of Sahra Bahrami after her daughter told a Dutch Radio Station Wednesday her mother was handed the death sentence. Bahrami has been jailed in Iran since December 2009. Dutch Diplomats have been denied access to her b...

Death of a Pahlavi: Iran Reacts to the Suicide of the Shah's Son
The youngest son of the late Shah of Iran, Alireza Pahlavi, committed Suicide in Boston on Tuesday, the latest tragedy to afflict the exiled Persian royal family. The 44-year-old Pahlavi's death darkens his family's complex legacy at an awkward moment, just as the clan is seeking to rekindle its ties with Iranians and identify itself with the country's democratic opposition movement. Since the 1979 Islamic Revolution ousted his father, the Shah, from power, Pahlavi lived a quiet life in exile ...

St. Louis Police Officer beats down and pepper sprays man
The Police Officer pulled the man from a car at a Shell gas station about 2:30 a.m. The officer then pushes the man to the ground, strikes him seven times with a police baton and uses Pepper Spray before handcuffing him and walking him toward a police substation on the property. Three men standing near the car witness the incident without getting involved. - St. Louis cop involved in beat down covered up incident, filed no report, faced previous abuse Lawsuits Please read our About Page, our Dis...

Teen in a Coma After Accident, Cited for Jaywalking
"He said, 'Takara was jaywalking. She has got to go to court on March 6th,'" said Obong. "If she was jaywalking, then she was jaywalking. But maybe you give it to me at a later time. Don't give it to me when they are rushing her into the operating room." - St. Louis Police Officer beats down and pepper sprays man - St. Louis cop involved in beat down covered up incident, filed no report, faced previous abuse Lawsuits Please read our About Page, our Disclaimer, and our Comments Policy. Please not...

Cop pulls gun on man during argument, faces possible assault with deadly weapon charges
A Veteran San Rafael Police Officer was arrested on allegations he threatened a man with a gun during a New Year's Eve argument at a Petaluma restaurant, police said Tuesday. [...] The alleged Victim told police he was waiting inside the restaurant for a seat when a man approached, bumped him for no apparent reason and yelled profanities at him, Cook said. The suspect left the restaurant, the Victim followed and a shouting match ensued outside. The suspect then pulled out a semiautomatic Handgun...

Fulton Deputy Accused Of Shooting Neighbor
[...] Martin said he walked out of his house to find his neighbor and her husband on top of his son. When he asked what was going on, Martin said the deputy quickly turned. “I noticed someone turning around and they started firing shots at me,” said Martin. When asked whether the off-duty deputy gave him commands, Martin told Young: “No, nothing. Just boom boom, boom. I saw my life flash before me.” By that point, several people in the neighborhood started dialing 911. That's...

St. Louis cop involved in beat down covered up incident, filed no report, faced previous abuse lawsuits
A 2005 civil suit in St. Louis alleged that Ries struck a man on the head with his baton and sprayed him with Pepper Spray in an on-duty Traffic Stop on North Grand Boulevard in September 2004. Records show that case was dismissed; it was unclear Tuesday whether a settlement was reached.Read More - St. Louis Police Officer beats down and pepper sprays man Please read our About Page, our Disclaimer, and our Comments Policy. Please note: InformationLiberation is neither liberal or conservative. Wh...

Explosion at French Embassy in Mali
PARIS - A French Foreign Ministry spokeswoman says an Explosion has rocked France's Embassy in the Malian capital. Christine Fages says the cause of the Explosion Wednesday evening in Bamako was not immediately clear, but it was not an accident. She said she had no information about possible casualties or motives. The West African nation of Mali, a former French colony, is one of the countries in which Al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb, AQIM, operates. The group has claimed responsibility fo...

Anti-US cleric strikes deal to end exile from Iraq
Anti-US Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr returned to Iraq yesterday from years of self-imposed exile in Iran, after his faction struck a deal to join a new government, Sadrist officials said. A somewhat diminished maverick whose Militia was once viewed by US forces as the greatest threat to Iraq, Sadr's return could boost Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki as he tries to form his second government before a full American withdrawal this year. ADVERTISEMENT Mazan al-Sadi, a Sadrist cleric in Baghdad, s...

Lanny Davis Puts Dems to Shame
The State Department has been late to respond to the controversies generated by a man who acted as Hillary Clinton's designated surrogate during her failed Presidential Campaign. Why should it not be assumed by foreign leaders that the outlandish actions of someone who promotes his past service to Bill and Hillary Clinton in his resume reflects her views, or at the very least that he has access to those making U.S. Foreign Policy. Davis' foreign policy interventions were reported by Glenn Gre...

Why WikiLeaks Leaks Matter
Why should anyone care about the secret diplomatic cables Wikileaks has disclosed? So what if State Department Bureaucrats say unflattering things about other world “leaders”? Some people may be asking those questions in response to WikiLeaks’s latest disclosures. Okay, they say, leaks about atrocities on the battlefield (such as the first Wikileaks disclosure, the “Collateral Murder” video) tell us something we should know about — the gross misconduct by U.S. milit...

Iran Has Arrested 60 Christian Leaders Since Christmas, Calling Them 'A Corrupt and Deviant Current'
Iran Arrests Christians, Says They're Hard-Liners Wednesday, January 05, 2011 By Staff, Associated Press Cairo - Iranian state television said Wednesday that leaders of the country's Christian minority have been arrested and accused of spreading a hard-line version of their faith. The report did not give the number of people arrested. The group was promoting hard-line Christian views at cultural gatherings with the support of Britain, the TV reported, quoting Tehran Governor Morteza Ta...