Senator Lindsey Graham earned the affection of millions of Iranians by standing with them in their fight for freedom.
Today, I will attend his funeral in Washington to bid farewell on behalf of my compatriots.
Read my tribute in the @WashingtonPost:
https://t.co/VERdynceJH
مراسم بزرگداشت رضا شاه بزرگ و محمد رضا شاه اريامهر در چهارم و پنجم امرداد ٢٥٨٥ برابر با ٢٦ جولاى ٢٠٢٦ در شهر لس أنجلس ، بورلى هيلز كاليفر نياى جنوبى با سوگند وفادارى به پرچم ، به ايران و شاه…
اردوان مفيد
One of the two most powerful nations on Earth, with enough nuclear weapons to end the world twice over, disappeared in under two years.
No war, no invasion. It just fell apart from the inside.
This is the collapse of the Soviet Union.🤔
Before it fell, the USSR was massive: over 22 million square kilometers, spanning eleven time zones, home to nearly 290 million people across fifteen republics.
It held the world's largest nuclear arsenal, and stood as America's only real rival.
He wanted to save the system. Instead, he cracked it wide open. Once people could speak freely, they used that freedom to demand change.
Through 1989, one Soviet-controlled country after another threw off Communist rule, almost all of it peacefully.
One by one, all fifteen republics declared independence... Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus simply announced the Soviet Union no longer existed.😯
On December 25th, Gorbachev resigned on live television, saying, "We now live in a new world."
The Iranian people have spoken, loud and clear: they want King Reza Pahlavi.
President Trump, stop negotiating with those blood-soaked terrorist mullahs who for 47 years have slaughtered people worldwide, including Americans.
Cut a deal with Pahlavi instead and free Iran!
Just as the Nazi regime was not synonymous with the German people, the Islamic Republic is not synonymous with the Iranian people. True patriotism is standing alongside the Iranian people and their courageous struggle for freedom, prosperity, and the reclaiming of the homeland, not defending a regime that has stolen the life and strength of our land for 47 years.