Mohammed Reza Pahlavi Quotes

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• 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 of the United States.

  Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

  Iran, Years, Europe

  "Majestic Failure: The Fall of the Shah". Book by Marvin Zonis, p. 65, 1991.

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• Growing terrorism, permissive societies, democracy collapsing through lack of law and order. If things continue on their present track, the disintegration of Western societies will occur much sooner than you think under the hammer blows of fascism and communism. Freedom is not something that does not have a breaking point, and your enemies would like you to reach that point.

  Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

  Thinking, Blow, Order

  "Keeping Faith: Memoirs of a President". Book by Jimmy Carter, p. 444, 1995.

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• My main mistake was to have made an ancient people advance by forced marches toward independence, health, culture, affluence, comfort.

  Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

  Mistake, People, Independence

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• The Saudis have never shown any respect for human rights, either now or in the past. Even a petty burglar faces having one of his hands chopped off. The liberal press in America prefers to ignore all this, although they don't hesitate to blacken the reputation of Iran.

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  Past, America, Rights

  "The Shah and I: The Confidential Diary of Iran's Royal Court, 1968-77". Book by Asadollah Alam, p. 535, 1991.

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• Let the dog bark; the moon shall beam on.

  Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

  Dog, Moon, Bark

  "The Life and Times of the Shah". Book by Gholam Reza Afkhami, p. 261, 2009.

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• To be first in the Middle East is not enough. We must raise ourselves to the level of a great world power.

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  Middle East, World, Levels

  "The Shah and I: The Confidential Diary of Iran's Royal Court, 1968-77". Book by Asadollah Alam, p. 360, 1991.

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• You approach the Mullahs as if they are normal people. They are not. You see them in your own image; you should not.

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  People, Normal, Should

  "The Life and Times of the Shah". Book by Gholam Reza Afkhami, p. 591, 2009.

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• 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.

  Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

  Country, Lying, Two

  "The Shah and I: The Confidential Diary of Iran's Royal Court, 1968-77". Book by Asadollah Alam, p. 278, 1991.

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• A crown, a throne could not be based on the not too very solid foundation of blood.

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  Blood, Foundation, Thrones

  "The Shah Speaks". Interview with David Frost, January 1980.

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• Muslim brothers be damned; they're our greatest enemies. You know yourself that I'm a Muslim, even a fanatical Muslim. But that does nothing to alter my opinion of the Arabs.

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  Brother, Enemy, Doe

  "The Shah and I: The Confidential Diary of Iran's Royal Court, 1968-77". Book by Asadollah Alam, p. 330, 1991.

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• Thank God we in Iran have neither the desire nor the need to suffer from democracy.

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  Iran, Suffering, Democracy

  "The Shah and I: The Confidential Diary of Iran's Royal Court, 1968-77". Book by Asadollah Alam, p. 233, 1991.

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• 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 femininity.

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  Beautiful, Men, Important

  "The Mystically Divine Shah of Iran". Interview with Oriana Fallaci, Chicago Tribune, December 30, 1973.

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• O Cyrus , great King, King of Kings, Achaemenian King, King of the land of Iran. I, the Shahanshah of Iran, offer thee salutations from myself and from my nation. Rest in peace, for we are awake, and we will always stay awake.

  Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

  Rest In Peace, Kings, Iran

  Opening speech during the 2500th anniversary of Cyrus' founding of the Persian Empire, October 12, 1971.

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• I calculated the amount of time I spent with my father during my entire life... the total amount of time I had with him, if you add up the hours, was about two months. My father was a busy man... we had very few opportunities to really sit down and talk as father and son.

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  Father, Son, Opportunity

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• 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.

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  Wall, People, Realizing

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• When you think I've been wounded by a good five bullets, one in the face, one in the shoulder, one in the head, two in the body, and that the last one stuck in the barrel because the trigger jammed... You have to believe in miracles. I've had so many air disasters, and yet I've always come out unscathed - thanks to a miracle while by God and the prophets.

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  Believe, Thinking, Air

  "The Mystically Divine Shah of Iran". Interview with Oriana Fallaci, Chicago Tribune, December 30, 1973.

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• I am convinced that the majority of the religious hierarchy today deplores the hardship inflicted on our people. I am referring not only to the martyrs but of the families who have been dispersed and terrified, who have no resources, and to the four million unemployed who are suffering from the economic chaos of a country which only a year earlier was giving employment to a million foreigners. Those who have chosen to serve God must feel profoundly sad at seeing ridicule poured on the most sacred principles of our religion.

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  Country, Religious, Years

  Mohammed Reza Pahlavi (Shah of Iran) (1980). “The Shah's story”, Michael Joseph

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• We may be delighted to see Israel putting the Arabs in their place, but we have repeatedly condemned their occupation of Arab territory.

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  Israel, Occupation, May

  "The Shah and I: The Confidential Diary of Iran's Royal Court, 1968-77". Book by Asadollah Alam, p. 65, 1991.

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• Today the name of America has a magic meaning for the most distant commmunities of the world.

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  Names, America, Magic

  Said in 1961. YouTube Channel "felixiran"/"The Shah of Iran and President Kennedy", www.youtube.com. June 12, 2007.

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• Who on earth do the Americans suppose their allies are amongst the Arab world? Even Saudi Arabia they seem to regard as nothing more than a resevoir of oil and money.

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  Oil, Allies, Arabia

  "The Shah and I: The Confidential Diary of Iran's Royal Court, 1968-77". Book by Asadollah Alam, p. 474, 1991.

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• A person who does not enter the new [Rastakhiz] party is either an individual who belongs to an illegal organization, or is related to the outlaw Tudeh Party, or in other words is a traitor. Such an individual belongs in an Iranian prison, or if he desires, he can leave the country tomorrow, because he is not an Iranian, he has no nation, and his activities are illegal and punishable according to law.

  Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

  Country, Party, Organization

  "Majestic Failure: The Fall of the Shah". Book by Marvin Zonis, p. 75, 1991.

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• As far as we are concerned, we are not the toys of any country, including the United States.

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  Country, United States, Toys

  Said at the "Meet the Press" program in July 1973. "His Imperial Majesty Mohammed Reza Pahlavi Shahanshah, Aryamehr: an operational code". Book by William W. Sitz, archive.org. 1975.

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• I will frankly confess that I was convinced that God had ordained me to do certain things for the service of my nation, things that perhaps could not be done by anyone else. In whatever I have done and whatever I do in the future, I consider myself as an agent of the will of God.

  Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

  Done, Agents, Certain

  Mohammed Reza Pahlavi (Shah of Iran) (1967). “The white revolution [of Iran]”

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• For all its apparent tolerance, the USA maintains a peculiar balance between the forces of capitalism and democracy. To achieve this I feel sure the country is guided by some hidden force; an organization working in secrecy, powerful enough to dispose of the Kennedys and of anyone else who gets in its way.

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  Country, Powerful, Usa

  "The Shah and I: The Confidential Diary of Iran's Royal Court, 1968-77". Book by Asadollah Alam, p. 169, 1991.

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• I have always endeavoured, as my double duty of believer and sovereign dictated, to follow the precepts of the sacred Book of Islam: precepts of balance, justice and moderation. Although my religious education was very literal, in that I learnt to understand the precepts of the Koran precisely according to the text, we have seen that on several occasions throughout my life, I have felt myself to be very particularly in the hands of the Almighty.

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  Religious, Book, Hands

  "The Shah's Story". Book by Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, p. 166, 1980.

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