Pictory

Iranvatan, the late shah was no dictator or authoritarian despot

just because it's in few peoples interest to use their valuable time to educate you, the new york times or time magazine, doesn't mean that wise individuals who use a dictionary to know the definitions of words don't find your ignorance objectionable.  If you wish to join the intelligent, start by learning the differece between a dictator and a law abiding monarch.  Infact if you wish to grow from ignorance towards knowledge make your first assignment learning how through controlling points of view and information the minds of many go into the hands of a small group of individuals, which in Irans deeply sad case caused the people to betray both king and country, and for the people to lose the freedom they enjoyed with the shah before the illigitimate revolution of 1979.

Iranian Army Then and NOW

Iranian Army during the Dictator Shah Regime and the Current Fascist Islamic Regime has done crimes against humanity and against Iranians

 So it has not been the Army of the people but the Army and servant of Dictators and Enemies of Iran

God Bless the Shah, Imperial Iranian Army, and SAVAK!

Three tenets of leadership, patriotism, dedication, service, and democracy.

The Sibilovich-minded groups don't like to hear this but without these three you would be nothing just like your Arbabs Lenin, Marx, and Akhtarov of Albania!

Shlomo proudly served the late Shah for 20 years as the Chief of SAVAK operator in ....!

I agree with you tehran e Azad, however you don't make it clear

what resulted in 1979.  It was not the shortcomings of the Pahlavi's that resulted in 1979, but it was a combination of 1) USA betrayal and unlawful actions, starting with murdering the late shah, and 2) short comings of the people of iran, which allowed themselves to be deceived by anti-monarchists/extremsts being the supported group of a deceived people and a treacherous west. On Khomeini and his revolution.  The Younger Generation can see it as it is and call it what it was, a big mistake.

Today the Masses and Consensus of Iran based on 33 years of hardship and lots of Pain, know The IRI Regime is Illigitimate, because the revolution was
illigitimate and is today unwanted by most of the people of Iran in particular the Youth who did not participate in the Crime of 1979
against KING AND COUNTRY.  Mullahs are not wanted for participating in the crime against King and Country and for torturing Iranians, corrupting them, enslaving them, lying
to them about the late shah, stealing their future all of which makes the mullahs
the Biggest Traitors to Iranian Culture.

Iranian Army

Even though the Pahlavis had their short comings , but they were the best Iran has seen so far, for the  past few hundred years!

Iran was great socially, culturally, economically, militarly ..etc  some say that iran had some political prisoners, but let see who the prisonors were : 1) fenatic islamists like khamenei, rafsanjani, etc 2)communists ( we all know what happened to  communism  and that rotten idiology) 3) Mojahedin ( which are in the world list of terrorists) so i must say that the shah was ahead of his time!!!

Both kings Loved Iran and did everything for iranian progress. But the past is the past. I hope iran can one day again become as great if not better than what it once was.