It should be noted that Mike Wallace was Jewish, and that the Shah was an ally of the United States:
Was the Shah right about this too, Mark Levin?
— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) April 6, 2026
The Shah on the “Jewish lobby”: https://t.co/JgvbJjrO7B pic.twitter.com/EOr2IGpMnv
The Shah didn’t pull any punches.
No, he didn’t, Fred. I found this pretty interesting. He died in 1980– one year after the Islamic Revolution– although I don’t know when the interview took place. I note, however, more than a hint of bitterness.
He states the obvious. 95% of US Congressman are on the take from Israel [laundered US taxpayer money in effect] and each has an Israeli handler, who unlike all other agents of foreign governments need not register as a foreign agent. This last was the gift of LBJ after the JFK assassination–JFK having told the Zionist ‘over my dead body’ re this and getting nukes.
DC is Israeli-occupied territory to such an extent that US taxpayers have cumulatively sent on the order of $400,000 to Israel. We send them billions each year, while Israel is less in debt and pays less tax than Americans.
Without Israel’s influence, the million+ innocent civilians killed in Middle East wars the US initiated would be alive. Even the US-initiated Syrian civil war–resulting in it being ruled by Al Queda, which abuses Christians that Assad protected–was for Israel.
So strong is their grip on media, Hollywood, & the DeepState, that the area Americans have the least free speech is to make any criticism of Israelis. A graduate student merely saying she was against the genocide of 80,000 Gazans got her kicked out of her university and the country. No historian employed by a university can point to the evidence that Zionists probably in 1949 assassinated James Forestal, 1st US Sec. of Defense, who merely opined that taking Palestine from the Arabs would drive the Arab world into the hands of the Soviet Union and cause the US to forever have to come to Israel’s defense. Was he ever right! The truth can get you killed.
I didn’t know about Forestal, J. Sobran.
We need to have freedom of speech in this country. One of the tools used to take away freedom of speech is to label as anti-Semitic any effort to call into question the lengths to which we go to assist Israel.
One could see in the Shah’s comments that there was acute awareness of these issues in that part of the world even more than four decades ago. My concern has been with the current military action that we are feeding grudges in the Middle East rather than ameliorating them. We are seeing that the waging of war is becoming more “democratized” with smaller nations having more access to technologies that change the playing field. This could come back to bite us.
You are so right, Triad. And notice how frequently the stigmatizing slander is used to shut down any debate, freeing the name-caller casting the “anti-Semitic” cudgel of ever responding to any criticism, no matter how valid.
Did you notice how nervous the Shah, ruler of a country the size of Europe, was about speaking of Israeli power even in the gentlest terms?
I found the interview pretty fascinating, J. Sobran. We need to keep in mind that, while he was regarded as somewhat of a dictator, the country back then was fairly westernized, and the people had much more liberty than they now have. And yes, he was anxious about Israeli power and the assistance the Israeli’s were getting.