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It's too late but

It's too late now but I believe that with Shah we would be an advance country with a great economy. UAE would be placed in Bandar Abbas (as it was supposed to be the hub). We would benefit from oil and service economy. I don't claim that the revolution was done by the west, but I do believe that the west had a hand in overthrowing or speeding the overthrow of Shah.
Now that Shah is gone and we know what we could be, we should not fall for the same traps and be played. We must believe in our nation and focus our attention to our people inside the country. I am not sure what would be the best solution, and if you are not sure don't rush into something. Yet I read one comment in Iranian.com that I absolutely agree with and that is we need to help the Iranians inside by pushing the western regimes to lift the sanctions. Economical path is a valid method to political openness, especially for Iran. People will take care of business once they have time to "itch their head".

Whatever

Whatever shah was or was not, whatever he did or did not, iran and iranians had their best days in at least 200 years during his reign: peace, economic growth, development, education, and prosperity for a vast majority, except of course for those who focused on opposing him to grab power, like islamists and leftists. those days are long gone and frequent travelers to iran know that attitudes inside iran is much different these days, and many young and old long for those good old days, and curse the shah but for letting them down and handing the country to mullas.

John Carpenter

Yo Johnny,

We're sorry, won't you come on home...

YOU ARE THE LOOSER!!!

The greatest man...

What a great man, we really did not deserve him! He was too good for us.

:)

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I am an American who worked in Isfahan during the 70's

The Shahinshah was a great visionary who wanted to modernize his nation. And sometimes he had to resort to iron fist to put down the mollahs and after 911 we understand why. All in all he was a great patriot and great friend of America.

Afarin bar to farzande pake Iran

Kaveh Jon,

I totally agree with you.

Thank you

Khafeh show Bacheh haroomzadeh!!

Listen to your Dad and shut your trap. Ok?

but...we have democracy now!

Say what you want, but we have a real democracy now...we even have a space program, nuclear technology, we assemble pegut, benz, we are doing scholarly work on the history of Holocaust, we are building jet fighters, and the list goes on. If you are reading and nodding along you are an idiot!

We have yet to do the basic refinery work and we need India and China to do it for us. We should have been the jewel of the Mid-east and be the financial, trade, cultural and technological hub in the region. But instead we got the Napoleon-syndrome loud mouth, a crippling oil infrastructure, and embarrassment to our great culture.

Let's blame ourselves, az mast ke bar mast!

Mohammad Reza Shah was a disaster

The biggest idiot from the 1940s until 1979 was Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.

He was a nut who believed that Imam Mahdi could cure his cancer. What a nut.

The Shah was a loser.

His White Revolution failed.

His 2500 year celebration was a waste of money.

His SAVAK led to a revolution.

And even Khomeyni was smarter than Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.

Implement what?

He did nothing for Iran.

Any advance made during 1925-1979 would have happened no matter who was in charge.

Do you believe the Mullahs are the reason that Iran has internet access?

Come on, be REAL.

The Shah was a loser. The Pahlavis are losers.

he was right

and had he stayed in power and got the chance of implementing policies he wanted to do, the whole region including Iran would have looked far different than what it is today. Sadly he took a fight with people, organizations and governments that were far more powerfull and more curel than he ever imagnied. Indeed this was begining to an end.

The Idea Was a Great One, But.........

Unfortunately it had no chance of success when the U.S. and British governments threw so much money at OPEC to maintain the status quo.

Had Mohammad Reza Shah's idea been implemented and put into practice, we would be seeing a much different balance of economic power in the world today.

Re: People who are looking towards the west

XerXes said it best. While it is useful to realize that Shah's mistake was to pick a fight with someone way bigger than him with no internal support - whether his fault for being disconnected from his people or simply going to fast, it is more important to take the lesson that not only the Western Imperialist has no interest in improving Iran, but in fact they are keeping the country in the shape that it is because it serves their criminal purposes. It is time to realize that the mullahs are nobodies - just puppets. And those who target mullahs, ignoring the Western imperialists, or worse, ask the Western imperialists to help for a regime change, are just fools not realizing what is going on. Apparently Reza Pahlavi is now hoping that the West will remove mullahs and bring him or someone democratic in power. What these people don't realize is that the Western imperialists have no interest in bringing democracy and modernization to Iran. It would be completely against their wishes. Reza Pahlavi has NOTHING to offer the Western imperialists. The mullah's regime is FAR better to them than anything else right now. I hope we will realize this and stop targeting the wrong "enemy."

I told Shah but he did not listen

I told him in 1970, that the best alternative for Iran would be to close the British embassy and all its consulates, stop assembly of Paykan autos and start building Mercedes Benz. I also suggested that we bring Shahreh-no Tehran to where the British Embassy is located and make it easier for the fornicators to have fun!

First he agreed, but then Farah interferred and the case was dropped and here we are! LOOOL

People who are looking towards the west

People who are looking towards the west to solve the Iranian issues must watch this and realize that IT IS the west that we are like the way we are...

Dejavu

Wasn't this the logical conclusion of what
M ossadegh did 28 years before?

to All self appointed oil experts

How many nations can you name who are "connected" to their country's oil negotiations? Did you expect him to be submissive to the oil powers? Then you would have said he was just a puppet in the hands of the multinationals. You guys speak through your bottom's orifice.

Boil

Oil business is genericly and fundamentally is a gang deriven business-- just like heroin cartels...
In this bonding and bond business you are either in it or you are not... but the catch is once you are in it you must be in it for the rest of your time-- zero tolerace for the quitters-- no if and no but...

Bond! James bond! 007 Gold finger!

As you see baby I am joining the criminal oil cartels loud and clear by chnaging my name from Abol Danesh to Aboil Danesh...

Ahh I love these nice houses with all soft marbles all around it like sweet pussy...

He stood against the oil powers and lost!

Statements like that and the creation of OPEC was the begining of the end for his reign!

Disconnected indeed

And that was the MOTHER OF ALL MISTAKES !

That was the begining of the end, PERIOD !

Re: fattollah...

God bless him. He had his own fair share of mistakes, but his heart was in the right place. May he rest in peace.

Nafti jan and Afsous Khan

Nafti jan, Yoy said it brother! Afsous khan, easeier said than done!

Disconnected from his people

The problem with the Shah was that he sold himself to the world powers for so many years that he couldn't free himself from their domination easily. The huge petro-dollar fortune of the golden years in the 70's gave him some false confidence to make little noises against the western influence from time to time as seen, for example, in this video clip. At the end, the masters couldn't tolerate such misbehavior from a servant and finally got rid of him. He should have relied on the support of his own people and not the foreigners.

What we had here was the failure to communicate

Unfortunately the regime did not get its own people involved in these issues, consequently they made people ignorant and susceptible to opposition for false promises like "we bring the oil money to your door steps".