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1/20
In 1975, Mohammad Reza Shah #Pahlavi The Great gave this interview to Canada’s CBC
According to the CBC’s own description of the interview,
“The Shah contends that the West built itself at #Iran’s expense and he is now putting things right”
THREAD:
In 1975, Mohammad Reza Shah #Pahlavi The Great gave this interview to Canada’s CBC
According to the CBC’s own description of the interview,
“The Shah contends that the West built itself at #Iran’s expense and he is now putting things right”
THREAD:
2/20
𝙎𝙝𝙖𝙝:
“You can’t keep on the way you were doing because the old way was a little exaggerated”
𝙌:
Do you think our inflation in the Western world is our own fault?
𝙎𝙝𝙖𝙝:
“Not mine anyway because it started well before we increased the price of oil”
#Iran
𝙎𝙝𝙖𝙝:
“You can’t keep on the way you were doing because the old way was a little exaggerated”
𝙌:
Do you think our inflation in the Western world is our own fault?
𝙎𝙝𝙖𝙝:
“Not mine anyway because it started well before we increased the price of oil”
#Iran
3/20
“You’ve built your progress & your affluence at our expense”
“So you can’t say that we increased the price of oil all of a sudden because for 20 & some odd years, maybe 24 years, we have just been terribly exploited in a very mean way”
— #Iran’s Mohammad Reza Shah #Pahlavi
“You’ve built your progress & your affluence at our expense”
“So you can’t say that we increased the price of oil all of a sudden because for 20 & some odd years, maybe 24 years, we have just been terribly exploited in a very mean way”
— #Iran’s Mohammad Reza Shah #Pahlavi
4/20
“We had no choice. They dictated to us, they decreased the posted price of oil when all the price of commodities in the world were on the increase & they were telling us ‘well, take it or leave it,’ & we had to take it”
“Now, things have been put right. . .“
— #Iran’s Shah
“We had no choice. They dictated to us, they decreased the posted price of oil when all the price of commodities in the world were on the increase & they were telling us ‘well, take it or leave it,’ & we had to take it”
“Now, things have been put right. . .“
— #Iran’s Shah
5/20
𝙎𝙝𝙖𝙝: I don’t know why you think that you are superior [..] but probably it will change
𝙌: Why will we change?
𝙎𝙝𝙖𝙝: B/c your eyes are opened. . You have just been living in an unjust world for so long, but you will accommodate with the new realities of the world
𝙎𝙝𝙖𝙝: I don’t know why you think that you are superior [..] but probably it will change
𝙌: Why will we change?
𝙎𝙝𝙖𝙝: B/c your eyes are opened. . You have just been living in an unjust world for so long, but you will accommodate with the new realities of the world
6/20
“We won’t be pushed around. We don’t wish a war, but if it is imposed on us, we will not shrink.”
— Mohammad Reza Shah #Pahlavi of #Iran
“We won’t be pushed around. We don’t wish a war, but if it is imposed on us, we will not shrink.”
— Mohammad Reza Shah #Pahlavi of #Iran
7/20
“. . . the Strait of Hormuz, which is the entrance to the #Persian Gulf is our jugular vein. We live by that”
“& furthermore, our forces which are there, are not just for the #PersianGulf, that they’re just stationed there. They could serve in any direction”
— #Iran’s Shah
“. . . the Strait of Hormuz, which is the entrance to the #Persian Gulf is our jugular vein. We live by that”
“& furthermore, our forces which are there, are not just for the #PersianGulf, that they’re just stationed there. They could serve in any direction”
— #Iran’s Shah
8/20
“Nobody could invade us without being forced to crush us because we are not going to surrender. What excuse will you have...? It will be barbaric w/o any precedent in the world, the worst imperialistic movement that the world had ever known. How could you do that?”
— Shah
“Nobody could invade us without being forced to crush us because we are not going to surrender. What excuse will you have...? It will be barbaric w/o any precedent in the world, the worst imperialistic movement that the world had ever known. How could you do that?”
— Shah
9/20
“And it’s strange that it’s absolutely normal for other countries to have even more arms than we have, & you start to talk about our force, when you find it so obvious & normal for other countries. I can’t quite make this up”
— Mohammad Reza Shah #Pahlavi of #Iran
“And it’s strange that it’s absolutely normal for other countries to have even more arms than we have, & you start to talk about our force, when you find it so obvious & normal for other countries. I can’t quite make this up”
— Mohammad Reza Shah #Pahlavi of #Iran
10/20
𝙌: Is it perhaps that the Western countries are just not used to thinking of #Iran as a major world power . . . whether it’s dealing about oil or whether it’s talking about an army?
𝙎𝙝𝙖𝙝: Yes, maybe you’re right, but they will have to cope with this development soon
𝙌: Is it perhaps that the Western countries are just not used to thinking of #Iran as a major world power . . . whether it’s dealing about oil or whether it’s talking about an army?
𝙎𝙝𝙖𝙝: Yes, maybe you’re right, but they will have to cope with this development soon
11/20
𝙌:
You’re extremely popular.. 90% of.. people would vote ‘yes’ for the Shah.. Why.. be.. authoritarian..?
𝙎𝙝𝙖𝙝:
“First of all, it’s more than 90%. Secondly, what do you call authority? To enforce the law? To make such fantastic, drastic changes without bloodshed?”
𝙌:
You’re extremely popular.. 90% of.. people would vote ‘yes’ for the Shah.. Why.. be.. authoritarian..?
𝙎𝙝𝙖𝙝:
“First of all, it’s more than 90%. Secondly, what do you call authority? To enforce the law? To make such fantastic, drastic changes without bloodshed?”
12/20
𝙎𝙝𝙖𝙝:
“Some people have even said that there are between 25,000 & 100,000 political prisoners”
𝙌: You deny this?
𝙎𝙝𝙖𝙝:
“Do I deny it? First of all, it’s our business & not any of their business. But the truth of the reality is that we have not more than 3000”
𝙎𝙝𝙖𝙝:
“Some people have even said that there are between 25,000 & 100,000 political prisoners”
𝙌: You deny this?
𝙎𝙝𝙖𝙝:
“Do I deny it? First of all, it’s our business & not any of their business. But the truth of the reality is that we have not more than 3000”
13/20
“.. this.. question.. it’s so ridiculous that I don’t have to answer.. But for.. sake of.. interview, I will say.. we don’t have to torture.. This is the way.. a unsophisticated organization were doing things. We are as sophisticated as you are now”
— Shah #Pahlavi #Iran
“.. this.. question.. it’s so ridiculous that I don’t have to answer.. But for.. sake of.. interview, I will say.. we don’t have to torture.. This is the way.. a unsophisticated organization were doing things. We are as sophisticated as you are now”
— Shah #Pahlavi #Iran
14/20
𝙎𝙝𝙖𝙝: ..I don’t.. appreciate.. a serious organization like you repeating trash.. in one paper in one country. Why do you have even to repeat that?
𝙌: So you categorically deny that?
𝙎𝙝𝙖𝙝: Yes & I don’t have to deny it because it’s none of your business, but I do
𝙎𝙝𝙖𝙝: ..I don’t.. appreciate.. a serious organization like you repeating trash.. in one paper in one country. Why do you have even to repeat that?
𝙌: So you categorically deny that?
𝙎𝙝𝙖𝙝: Yes & I don’t have to deny it because it’s none of your business, but I do
15/20
“They [would-be killers] were all pardoned by myself. &.. we know.. attempts which did not materialize & they have been also pardoned.. this has been my policy.. I forgive when.. concerns me personally & I can’t do it when it concerns the country & the state”
—Shah #Iran
“They [would-be killers] were all pardoned by myself. &.. we know.. attempts which did not materialize & they have been also pardoned.. this has been my policy.. I forgive when.. concerns me personally & I can’t do it when it concerns the country & the state”
—Shah #Iran
16/20
𝙌:
“Are you ever afraid when you make public appearances?”
𝙎𝙝𝙖𝙝:
“Never. First of all, I’m not afraid of anything. Secondly, I know very well that I will be around as long as it has been written.”
#Iran
𝙌:
“Are you ever afraid when you make public appearances?”
𝙎𝙝𝙖𝙝:
“Never. First of all, I’m not afraid of anything. Secondly, I know very well that I will be around as long as it has been written.”
#Iran
17/20
Same energy:
Same energy:
18/20
Historian Andrew Scott Cooper explains in the clip below how so-called journalists (like the hostile CBC interviewer) would report dishonest, astronomically inflated numbers of those imprisoned, tortured, or killed by the Shah’s state
Fake news existed then as it does now https://twitter.com/AshkanTweets/status/1367119994862075910
Historian Andrew Scott Cooper explains in the clip below how so-called journalists (like the hostile CBC interviewer) would report dishonest, astronomically inflated numbers of those imprisoned, tortured, or killed by the Shah’s state
Fake news existed then as it does now https://twitter.com/AshkanTweets/status/1367119994862075910
19/20
My last thread:
The Shah of #Iran’s EPIC speech given on #Nowruz
in 1976
https://twitter.com/AshkanTweets/status/1375119376718905355
My last thread:
The Shah of #Iran’s EPIC speech given on #Nowruz
in 1976 https://twitter.com/AshkanTweets/status/1375119376718905355
20/20
A previous thread I made is linked below: an interview by historian Andrew Scott Cooper
(12 OF MY PREVIOUS THREADS ARE ATTACHED IN THE SAME THREAD BELOW)
#Iran #Pahlavi #Persian #Iranian #ايران #پهلوى #پاينده_ايران #جاويدشاه #جاويد_شاه #نه_به_جمهوري_اسلامي https://twitter.com/AshkanTweets/status/1367213713850310656
A previous thread I made is linked below: an interview by historian Andrew Scott Cooper
(12 OF MY PREVIOUS THREADS ARE ATTACHED IN THE SAME THREAD BELOW)
#Iran #Pahlavi #Persian #Iranian #ايران #پهلوى #پاينده_ايران #جاويدشاه #جاويد_شاه #نه_به_جمهوري_اسلامي https://twitter.com/AshkanTweets/status/1367213713850310656
