AT long last Mohammed Reza Pahlavi is dead. That is good Like cancer from which he died, the deposed Shah of Iran terminal sickness which in its time, responsible for the deaths of tens of thousands of people.
He was responsible as well for the torturing of countless citizens of Iran, and the incarceration political prisons of estimated 100,000 people.
"The century' the contemporary Iranian press has called him, and if that is an exaggeration it is only a slight one, and one that is excusable considering the dured during his reign.
The Shah did not impose his rule alone. He was returned to 1953 by British-US intervention. When he up in 1957, agents of this hated police were trained in the US and Britain. the in inThe Shah.
joint the 'white His Under the Shah there were questions at isolated moments in history. It is better to ask: Where is Iran going and whiere has it come from?
Under the Shah, the majority of the people the tionalities Khuzestan, Turkomenstan and Azerbaijan, women, workers — had no future. That was why these over 100,000 political prisoners; some met their fate at the It is best not to ask such nian society combined to overthrow the Pahlavi regime.
Today in Iran many of these people continue to be oppres ed, but they alse con fight that oppression. including Most removal of the Shah taught the masses in Iran the oil regime is itself that this been Child labour was Shah's Iran that he preferred to conceal from his Western fan hands of the mistary This st to portantly te power !
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