Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlaviwas the Shah of Iran from 16 September 1941 until his overthrow by the Iranian Revolution on 11 February 1979. He took the title Shāhanshāh on 26 October 1967. He was the second and last monarch of the House of Pahlavi of the Iranian monarchy. Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi held several other titles, including that of Āryāmehrand Bozorg Arteshtārān...
NationalityIranian
ProfessionRoyalty
Date of Birth26 October 1919
country claims great-power
The great powers claim that whatever they possess is theirs by right, but whatever we, the smaller countries possess is negotiable.
country middle-east levels
Nixon would like to consign us to to the level of the most backward countries in the whole Middle East. Why lower us to the standard of the Saudis rather than raising the Saudis to meet us?
country powerful usa
For all its apparent tolerance, the USA maintains a peculiar balance between the forces of capitalism and democracy. To achieve this I feel sure the country is guided by some hidden force; an organization working in secrecy, powerful enough to dispose of the Kennedys and of anyone else who gets in its way.
country toys united-states
As far as we are concerned, we are not the toys of any country, including the United States.
crowds draws one-thing
There is only one thing I can say about the Shah- he knows how to draw a crowd.
kings stupid headache
Let me tell you quite bluntly that this king business has given me personally nothing but headaches.
beautiful men important
Nobody can influence me, nobody. Still less a woman. Women are important in a man's life only if they're beautiful and charming and keep their femininity.
wall people realizing
My advisers built a wall between myself and my people. I didn't realize what was happening. When I woke up, I had lost my people.
art patriotic exercise
The Shah regarded politics as the province of demagoguery, an art in which only charlatans could excel. He had no time for what he saw as the tedious process of achieving consensus through debate and discussion and tried to justify his solitary exercise of power by insisting it was what Iran needed to catch up with lost time. He believed he was more patriotic than anyone else and needed no advice on how best to promote and protect the highest interests of the nation.
strong leader world
Nixon is a strong leader with a good grasp of the world's problems. He knows that the only way to argue with the communists is from a position of strength.
iran suffering thank-god
Thank God we in Iran have neither the desire nor the need to suffer from democracy.
people normal mullahs
You approach the Mullahs as if they are normal people. They are not. You see them in your own image; you should not.
country party law
A person who does not enter the new [Rastakhiz] party... is either an individual who belongs to an illegal organization, or is related to the outlaw Tudeh Party, or in other words is a traitor. Such an individual belongs in an Iranian prison, or if he desires, he can leave the country tomorrow... because he is not an Iranian, he has no nation, and his activities are illegal and punishable according to law.
done agents certain
I will frankly confess that I was convinced that God had ordained me to do certain things for the service of my nation, things that perhaps could not be done by anyone else. In whatever I have done and whatever I do in the future, I consider myself as an agent of the will of God.