Javad Khadem

Javad Khadim: I think that after Mr. Khamenei, there will be a change and religion will be abandoned.

Javad Khadem: Transition starts from the point where the military forces leave the clergy.

Javad Khadem: Bakhtiar had accepted defeat, but Bakhtiar's thought did not fail.

Javad Khadem: After the failure of the coup, I came to the conclusion that nothing will happen for a generation.

Javad Khadem: If I go back again, I will choose the coup again.

Javad Khadem: I feel human guilt and not political guilt that I was responsible for the death of 300 people.

If Mirhossein Mousavi was not afraid of bloodshed, maybe the Green movement would have won.

Javad Khadem: Bakhtiar used to say that he will work with Satan to overthrow this regime. (So he did it with Saddam), Saddam was not a devil.

Neighboring countries are often our backyard.
These countries were all part of Iran and it is not bad to get help from them.

Javad Khadem: The goal of the Nojeh coup was not to weaken the army in any way.

Americans were tired of Saddam attacking Iran. Saddam could not withstand the pressure of war.

Javad Khadem: We were the main culprit of the failure of the Nojeh coup.

Saeed Hajjarian's narrative about how the Nojeh coup was revealed is closer to reality than other narratives.

Javad Khadem: America did not oppose Nojeh's coup.

Saddam gave full support to the coup.

Israel provided informational assistance.

Javad Khadem: When I suggested the coup to Bakhtiar, he was hesitant.

The coup was to prevent Iraq from attacking Iran.

Saddam gave us all the necessary facilities

Javad Khadem: When the news of the revolution's victory was broadcast on the radio, I was in the prime minister's building.

Mr. Bakhtiar said goodbye to each of us.

People were coming from both sides of the palace street.

Javad Khadem: Bakhtiar did not seek to preserve the legacy of the monarchy.

Bakhtiar was a libertarian who wanted democracy for Iran.

Javad Khadem: Hitting an Air France cost a lot, but it was possible.

Khomeini's assassination was planned, but Bakhtiar refused.

My father was ready to kill Khomeini.

The American and Israeli intelligence services did not intend to kill Khomeini.

Javad Khadem: Narration of the last minutes of Bakhtiar's cabinet in the prime minister's office

Bakhtiar was shocked when Qarabaghi called and informed about the army's neutrality. We had reached the end of the line.

The announcement of the army's neutrality was not a shock to me, But Bakhtiar was shocked.

Javad Khadem: France is a political whore in the real sense

The second face of France is the protection of human rights.

Bakhtiar was a French citizen and his Frenchness was more than his Iranianness.

Javad Khadem: The Shah could stay if he ordered the killing, but the Shah was not able to order the killing.

There was a list of 600 people to "exterminate".
The king wanted - like his father - to get out from under the domination of foreign forces.

Javad Khadem: 20 to 25 people were killed in Jale Square.

When the revolutionaries attacked the weapons depot, I told Bakhtiar to kill him, but he refused.

There may have been bigger killings; But I am not aware of them.

Javad Khadim: The 1979 revolution won 90% because of Khomeini's genius; The rest were tools.

I always considered Khomeini a genius; Because he knew society well.

The likes of Yazdi and Qutbzadeh were tools for Khomeini.

Javad Khadem: Dr. Bakhtiar was during the American talks with Khomeini.

If Bazargan knew what was going to happen, maybe he would not have agreed to become the prime minister and would have helped Bakhtiar.

Khomeini knew that his promises to America were not important.

Javad Khadem: Be sure that in revolutions, the minority with will is more important than the general society.

The king was a prisoner of an illusion and could not resist because of his illness.
The Americans and the British knew that the revolution could not be stopped.

Javad Khadem: When Hoveyda resigned, I said that the imperial regime was destroyed.

We should not think that Bakhtiar did nothing. Bakhtiar started his activity on the same day of Hoveyda's resignation.

Javad Khadem: The Islamic Republic is a version of the Pahlavi regime, but with more violence

The powers of the president today are almost equal to the powers of the prime minister during the time of the Shah.
As Hoveyda was a politician, he could use the same 20% of his authority effectively.

Why did Khomeini prefer Mehdi Bazargan to Shapur Bakhtiar? Conversation with Javad Khadem

Mr. Khamenei - like Khomeini - knows that the presence of strong people around him is dangerous for him.

Mr. Motahari prevented the meeting between Khomeini and Bakhtiar.

Apparently, Khomeini did not say anything irrelevant until he came to power.

Javad Khadem: Mr. Khomeini's Power Was Not Only in Mosques; His Supporters Were Also Present in the Streets

Saeed Hajjarian's account of the Nojeh coup is closer to the truth.

The Shah believed that a king should not kill his own people.