Published on July 25, 2019.
Based on Masayuki Takayama’s “Henken Jizai” column in the July 25 issue of Shukan Shincho, this article examines modern Iranian history and Japan’s relationship with Iran.
Through Crown Prince Mohammad Pahlavi, Japan’s Mitsubishi twin-engine transport plane “Soyokaze,” Islamic forces, Ayatollah Khomeini, the Pasdaran Revolutionary Guards, sanctions on Ayatollah Khamenei, the attack on a Japanese tanker, and criticism of the Asahi Shimbun’s editorial stance, it considers the nature of contemporary Iran.

July 25, 2019.
The United States imposed economic sanctions on Ayatollah Khamenei, the head of the mosques, and it is because of this background that the personal assets targeted amounted to more than ten trillion yen.
The following is from Masayuki Takayama’s serialized column published in the July 25 issue of Shukan Shincho.
This essay, too, perfectly proves the correctness of my assessment that he is the one and only journalist in the postwar world.
The Iran We Do Not Know.
Japan and Iran, Persia, had deep ties.
In 1939, for the wedding of Crown Prince Mohammad Pahlavi and Princess Fawzia of Egypt, Japan dispatched an imperial envoy to Tehran aboard the Mitsubishi twin-engine transport plane “Soyokaze.”
Special congratulatory airplanes also flew in from Germany, Italy, and other countries, but Pahlavi is said to have been especially moved by the Japanese aircraft.
Iranians are of the same Aryan lineage as Western Europeans, yet they have been strangely discriminated against.
Being white yet Islamic is also one reason they have been disliked, and the Hollywood film “300” depicts Iran as a land of monsters.
That contempt still lives today.
Two years after the wedding, when Germany invaded the Soviet Union, the Allied forces occupied Iran because it was convenient for transporting supplies to the Soviet Union, and his father, Reza Shah, was exiled to an island in the Indian Ocean.
It was treatment on the level of some native country.
In a world controlled by arrogant white people, Japan had industrialized by its own power, and had even built aircraft, which only white people were supposed to be able to make, and flown them there.
The Japanese aircraft “participated specially in the formation flight celebrating the wedding at the special request of the Iranian royal family,” according to the history of Greater Japan Airlines.
Pahlavi himself also had a special experience.
After his father was expelled, he ascended the throne as emperor under Allied control.
At the end of 1941, after completing his courtesy visits and while returning home aboard a Pan American aircraft, he encountered the attack on Pearl Harbor.
His plane landed at Hilo on the island of Hawaii, and there he certainly saw the white people who had always behaved arrogantly turn pale and flee in panic.
After the war, Pahlavi broke the Islamic restraints that had kept his homeland stagnant and pushed forward the industrialization of his country, saying, “Be the Japan of western Asia.”
At that time, farmers donated their farmland to mosques in order to avoid taxes and became tenant farmers on that land.
The mosques had grown fat.
The United States imposed economic sanctions on Ayatollah Khamenei, the head of the mosques, and it is because of this background that the personal assets targeted amounted to more than ten trillion yen.
The mosques were also a fiscal obstacle to modernization.
The emperor came into serious conflict with Ayatollah Khomeini, the head of the mosques at the time.
However, Europe and America abandoned the emperor.
They did not need a “Japan” in the Middle East.
You people can be covered in the dregs of Islam and just produce oil.
Ayatollah Khomeini’s resistance was rather welcomed, and the sermons of the exiled ayatollah were carefully broadcast into Iran by the BBC.
Thus it was Pahlavi who, in turn, was driven out of the country.
Ayatollah Khomeini successfully defended the property of the mosques, but he was not satisfied with that.
Why not have us clerics take over this country?
The hands he used were the Pasdaran Revolutionary Guards, a group of Shiite fanatics.
They slaughtered opposing republican factions and placed companies, universities, and government offices under their control.
Then they put to a national referendum a draft constitution that would “revere Islamic clerics as leaders, while the people become good Muslim believers.”
If it passed, drinking and gambling would be forbidden in accordance with the Koran.
Women would not be allowed to show their hair or bare faces to anyone other than their husbands.
Above all, if they committed adultery, they would be subjected to the most cruel punishment, stoning.
The people turned away, but around the time of the vote, the Pasdaran occupied the U.S. embassy and took the staff hostage.
Amid anxiety that American missiles might come flying at any moment, the result of the national referendum was announced as follows: “99.8 percent of the people approved the clerical dictatorship constitution.”
If anyone said it was a fraud, he was immediately dragged away and killed.
From the next day, women accused of adultery were actually publicly executed, and men who had hidden alcohol were whipped.
That has continued for 40 years now.
The Iran known to Japanese people had long since disappeared.
Iran’s new face, the Pasdaran, recently blew up a Japanese tanker, shot down a U.S. military unmanned reconnaissance aircraft, and seized a British tanker.
This shows that their madness is still alive and well.
Bolton has supported citizens resisting insane religious rule.
He also publicly stated that “if Khamenei does not change the country, there is no choice but to overthrow the regime.”
He also believes that the United States bears part of the responsibility for having silently tolerated Ayatollah Khomeini at that time.
The Asahi Shimbun’s editorial on this issue writes that “Trump is to blame.”
That is a little wrong.
Let us understand that there are sometimes regimes that are better off destroyed.