Message from 70 Current and Former Political Prisoners on the Anniversary of the Passing of Reza Shah and Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi

In the noble name of Iran

“On the arrival of the fourth and fifth of Mordad, the anniversary of the passing into eternity of the Pahlavi kings who built Iran, we offer our condolences to all true Iranians and patriots.

May their name be everlasting and their path well travelled.
Reza Shah, may your soul rest in peace.
Shahanshah Aryamehr, may your soul rest in peace.

Kings who, like a kind and loving father, wished for nothing but the welfare and comfort of the people and the security and prosperity of the land of Iran.

The Pahlavi kings, the fathers of modern Iran, are a symbol for Iranians — a symbol of progress and development, of the transformation of the political, economic, social and civil order, of secularism, modernity, and territorial integrity...

Reza Shah Pahlavi and Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi both chose Iran over their own survival, and so remained forever in the heart of history...

Kings who entrusted the judgment to history, to the people of the land of Iran, and to the world...

Because they knew that in the passage of history they would be the conquerors of the hearts of their good-minded people...

And today there is a generation that loves and adores them, a generation that never saw them!
Yet their memory remains alive in the heart of the noble nation of Iran.
And their name will shine at the summit of this ancient land’s history so brilliantly, for all eternity, that the enemies and the demons will remain forever bewildered by the echo of it.

Without doubt, the renewed bond between the King and the nation can save Iran and bring it once again to the gates of civilisation.
That day will come soon, and light will triumph over darkness.

“Long must the aged father of the heavens live
before the mother of the world bears another child like you.”

Long live Iran
Javid Shah

Names of a number of the signatories:

Zohair Deylam Katouli
Golareh Abbasi
Mahnaz Tarrah
Zohreh Sarv
Masoud Vazifeh
Hassan Qoran-Nevis
Mehdi Hemmati
Danial Moghaddam
Alireza Najjari
Kazem Alinejad Baranlou
Fariborz Babakhani
Meysam Gholami
Ali-Asghar Hassani-Rad
Mohammad Hayat
Maziar Rezaei
Mostafa Hamidi
Akbar Shah-Maleki
Hojjatollah Rafei
Bakhtiar Sasani
Behfar Lalehzari
Saleh Khamoushi
Moeid Salari
Mohammad Derikvand
Amir Zohourian
Hamid Rezaei
Amin Sokhanvar
Shahriar Bayat
Hossein Estaji Arian
Hossein Sohrabi-Rad
Hossein Rostamzadeh
Morsal Ketabi
Azad Peykarifar
Sajjad Imannejad
Navid Vafaei
Alireza Rouhafza
Reza Salavati
Mojtaba Tavakkol
Sajjad Keshtpour
Parviz Akbari
Mahmoud Mehrabi
Meysam Mohammadi Aghdam
Milad Hassanlouei
Danial Soleimani
Mohammad Moghaddam
Ehsan Ravazhjian
Ali Aghel
Gholamhossein Boroujerdi
Peyman Jamshidiha
Fereshteh Souri
Ali Jahanian
Yashar Ghazaei
Reza Norouzi
Meysam Mohammadi
Mojtaba Ebrahimi
Ali Maghsadlou
Ramin Pouramir
Mojtaba Delavar
Souri Chegini Babaei
Reza Behrouz-Moradi
Omid Sadeghi
Mohsen Khanmohammadi
Mohammad Soltani
Saeed Nasimi
Afshar Mounesi
Hamid Farhadi
Mozhgan Tadrisi
Sohrab Hassankhani