Amongst the most despicable, more grotesque, more phony images in the last few days has been that of the deposed Shah’s family taking to television and expressing support for the Iranian demonstrators.

The late Shah’s son and former Crown Prince of Iran Reza Pahlavi was at the National Press Club where he even wept. Pahlavi condemned the Iranian regime as brutal and oppressive and standing in the way of democracy. He abused the image of the young Iranian woman killed - Neda - by placing her photo is his wallet with all his other family photos - he stated she is family now - in unsubtle propaganda.

The Shah’s wife also wept tears of corruption. The Shah’s family is nothing more than a bunch of thieving, lying opportunists. The Shah’s rule was that of looting from the state treasury, of oppression against Iranians and even harsher crackdowns. When Iran’s took to the streets during the beginning of the Islamic Revolution, the Shah’s troops killed far more people. Once they even closed the doors of a movie theater and burned to death hundreds of people trapped inside.

The Shah was a tyrant who never sought accommodation with protests, the compromise that his empty suit of a son is now selectively advocating. The Shah could have saved himself were it not for his greed and unwillingness to see that his people were growing resentful. The demands of the protesters in the beginning was for more democracy and accountability. But the Shah refused to give one inch until the demand become regime change and it was too late for the despot.

The Shah’s family made away with hundreds of million from the Iranian Treasury when they were forced to flee the country.

The Islamic Republic, whatever its awful faults, is far more democratic than the Shah’s rule.

Now his propagandist of a son wants to pose as a freedom fighters! Is he ready to condemn his father’s rule as just as bad for Iranians as the reign of the ayatollahs? Of course not. He is not a champion of anything expect his self-interest. He could care less about normal Iranians. He just wants to ride to power on the backs of courageous Iranians so that then he can install himself as Shah and loot and pillage like his tyrant father.

Like father, like son.