Nixon has the audacity to tell me to do nothing in the interest of my country until he dictactes where that interest lies. At the same time he threatens me that failure to follow his so-called advice will be to jeopardize the special relations between our two countries. I say to hell with such special relations.
Thank God we in Iran have neither the desire nor the need to suffer from democracy. - Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
Thank God we in Iran have neither the desire nor the need to suffer from democracy.
- Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
Growing terrorism, permissive societies, democracy collapsing through lack of law and order. If things continue on their present track, the disintegr… - Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
Growing terrorism, permissive societies, democracy collapsing through lack of law and order. If things continue on their present track, the disintegr…
You approach the Mullahs as if they are normal people. They are not. You see them in your own image; you should not. - Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
You approach the Mullahs as if they are normal people. They are not. You see them in your own image; you should not.
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. - Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
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.
Soviet propaganda is remarkably effective and the Americans are even more remarkably stupid. - Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
Soviet propaganda is remarkably effective and the Americans are even more remarkably stupid.
He [the King of Morocco] spends half his time asleep and the rest of it buried between the legs of the fairer sex. - Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
He [the King of Morocco] spends half his time asleep and the rest of it buried between the legs of the fairer sex.
I want the standard of living in Iran in ten years' time to be exactly on a level with that in Europe today. In twenty years' time we shall be ahead … - Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
I want the standard of living in Iran in ten years' time to be exactly on a level with that in Europe today. In twenty years' time we shall be ahead …
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 femini… - Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
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 femini…
They want liberalization! I'll give them liberalization. I'll loosen the screws until the Americans beg me to tighten them again. - Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
They want liberalization! I'll give them liberalization. I'll loosen the screws until the Americans beg me to tighten them again.
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