You Approach The Mullahs As If They

The Shah Regarded Politics As The Province Of Demagoguery, An Art In Which Only Charlatans Could Excel. He Had No Time For What He Saw As The Tedious Process Of Achieving Consensus Through Debate And Discussion And Tried To Justify His Solitary Exercise Of Power By Insisting It Was What Iran Needed To Catch Up With Lost Time. He Believed He Was More Patriotic Than Anyone Else And Needed No Advice On How Best To Promote And Protect The Highest Interests Of The Nation.

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.

Yugoslavia Is, With Iran, The Only Country Which Under Difficult, Not To Say Agonising, Circumstances Stood Up To Joseph Stalin. It Was Not Easy To Unite Ethnic Groups Or To Modernize A Country Like Yugoslavia, And It Must Be Acknowledged That Marshal Tito Achieved Something Extraordinary. May God Grant That His Successors Be As Capable As He.

Let The Dog Bark; The Moon Shall Beam On.

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.