Letter. Pahlavi and Rajavi [000G]
David Jones infers from Pahlavi père’s despotism that Pahlavi fils ‘can’t save Iran’. Jones praises his rival, Maryam Rajavi, leader of the Mojahedin-e-Khalq (MeK). Like Pahlavi fils, Rajavi makes all the right noises, but has never governed. Unlike Pahlavi fils, but like Pahlavi père, she has held enough power to have a track record—of abusing members of the MeK through ‘prolonged incommunicado and solitary confinement, beatings, verbal and psychological abuse, coerced confessions, threats of execution, and torture that in two cases lead to death’ (Human Rights Watch). Yes, prospective dynasts are politically answerable for their fathers’ crimes. And Rajavi is personally answerable for her own.