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Ba  Salam.
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Throughout our 5000 or 7000 years of civilization, Iran has never been a DEMOCRACY but a Kingship and Monarchy!  For most of the time brutal and precarious.
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How could a nation without a track record of democracy manage a democracy overnight?
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For a country to prosper, it needs an effective POLITICAL ESTABLISHMENT at first, which would in turn, lead to FINANCIAL  &amp;amp; later on to SOCIAL leaderships.
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Dealing with the oil consortium in 1973, the Shah said: “ Bayad saf bekeshan!”
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