Che Shod Ke Chonan Shod? ("Why did it happen?") (Mass Market Paperback)

by Abbas Gharabaghi (Author), Ahmad Ahrar (Author)

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A chronicle of events in Iran: 1976-1978

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 209 pages
• Publisher: Arran Press; 1 edition (January 30, 1999)
• ISBN-10: 0967019915
• ISBN-13: 978-0967019918
• Average Customer Review: 1.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #7,685,400 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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1.0 out of 5 stars The Traitor, February 24, 2000

By	Bijan (USA) - See all my reviews

I read this book along 2 other books That Gharabaghi has written about the same subject(s). In his book he tries very hard to misguide the readers on what really happened. General Gharabaghi held many key positions during his 42 years in the Shah's Imperial Army. In the last 9 months of 1978, he became minister of war, minister of interior and chairman of joint chiefs of staff. Gharabghi had the opportunity and the absolute military power to save Iran from falling in the hands of the fundamentalists. Instead he used his power to misguide other military leaders who were loyal to H.I.M. Shahanshah. Had the Shah selected General Oveisi as the supreme commander of impeial armed forces instead of Gharabaghi, the uprising would have been crushed and all other conspirators would have been arrested or defeted. British MI-6 had a lot to do with what really happened and advised the Shah to install Gharabghi who was weak and always known as an outsider in the imperial court and spoke Farsi with a strong turkish accent. Iranin people must know that General Abbas Gharabaghi was one of the Persia's worst traitor who joined the oppositions and ordered the military to surrender rather than joining the other military leaders like Lt. General Rahimi, Lt. General Badrei and Major General Naji to carry out the "Operations Abortion" and crush the uprising in 1979.