Reza Pahlavi’s Warning on Future Nuclear Dangers

Dear compatriots,

Recently, a strong earthquake shook Japan and, in addition to widespread harm, damaged the world’s biggest nuclear power plant in that country, thus causing a grave danger. The spread of radioactive materials, in the immediate environment of that facility as well as throughout the region, with long-term negative consequences, has raised serious concern among the people and the government of Japan and in neighboring countries.

This event sends a sharp warning to the people of Iran: if, a country like Japan equipped with the most advanced industrial technology and management know-how in general and in the nuclear domain in particular, encounters such unpredictable natural disasters with the kind of consequences we all witness, it goes without saying that a country like Iran, located on some of the most active seismic faults, obsolete technology and weak management, if faced with a devastating earthquake, the results would be far more catastrophic for our people, our country and the region as what we have seen in Japan.

This event also sends a sharp warning to the Iranian scientific and expert community in the sense that the Islamic government’s populist and erroneous policies and nuclear trafficking through occult international smuggling networks aimed at precipitously assembling an obsolete set of secondhand nuclear facilities, put our country and our nation on a crash course at the end of which there will be nothing but sorrow and irreversible damage and destruction.

No political system, no national government, puts its own nation and country in front of such irremediable dangers.

In this matter as well as in others, the Islamic regime and its top-ranking officials will be held accountable in front of the people of Iran.

May God bless Iran,

Reza Pahlavi