Shah went dictatorial because the country was fighting armed islamist/toudehi terrorists looking to make iran a soviet coloney. He had no reformist opposition, his opponents were either MKO terrorists and being helped by islamists.His vision of giving woman equal rights, making iran into a industrial power, Land reforms(which even his critics call a true revolutionary movement)having a good foreign policey of being friends with Israel, US, Europe and having stabel relationships in the east with China and even the soviets did not go down well with these armed terrorists. We were smack bang in the middle of the superpowers war. Iran would have been the first place the soviets would have invaded had it not been for irans wise foreign policey at the time
.It's easy to sit from afar and pass judgements.When the west was putting immense pressure on him to kill and execute communist students, he instead paid and send them abroad to be educated to comeback and serve heir country(sadly it did not happen). When the west asked him to attack Saddam he forced saddam to sign a humiliating accord without going to war and said one day of war will cost Iranian people a lot of lives and money that should be spent on building this country. When the west told him to attack Afghanistan he instad built a relationship and signed a security pact with them and Pakistan.Shah hated bloodshed and built the massive and proud armed forces as a deterent for countries to think twice about invading iran again.When the west pretty much bullied him to bring the oil prices down he replied by saying in 1979 I will start building our own refineries and will convert petrol into tens of different deravitives and start making private Iranian oil branches and refineries all over the world. We would have had Iranian owned petrol stations all over the world and would have started making our own engine oils and dominanating the world oil and petrol markets.As the shah said, there is no real profit in just selling oil, but the real profit is in refining it, making petrol stations all over the world and using it in different deravitives.
It's easy to say he should have created a paradise, but one must be fair and understand the circumstances we were under. Also to be fair,we were by far the most free society in the region at the time. Turkey had no press freedom. non whatsoever and despite that we had double annual income of the turks and much more progressive society.Iraq was had no freedom but they were pretty progressive to. We had far more freedom then anyonelse considering what kind of pressure the country was under.
Also mossadegh was no angel. he shut down plenty of papers and dissolved the parliament and his primer minster fatemi couped against the shah first. It was he who couped first not the shah. Shah had every legal power and right to sack mossadegh. Infact mossadegh tried to stop fatemi who next day orderd the papers to publish the pictures of the shah with a rope around his neck.You only listen to one side and watch the shah and his men biased bullshit and pass judgements regarding the shah's time. As for the shah's supposed coupe, well at the time iran was bankrupt and people were not happy with mossadegh as they were in poverty and they turned to the shah who cameback and made iran's economy and standard of life from 1963 to 1977 the best in the region and one of the fastest growing in the world.As stated by dr millani, well before china thought of first building a industrial power and then transition into a democracy, shah was planning that in 1963. This is a guy who opposed the shah but he has the guts to say that.Shah's plan was he would build the ground works for his son to make a transition into a society with more azadi siasi and from 1976 to 1978 shah had started that. The news papers were more azad to publish things and the Tv was the same and as a result look what happen.The problem at the time was even if you mentioned something positive, these roshan kekers would call you a backward taghooti. They even did the same with anyother roshan feker who made a positive comment about reza shah or the shah himself.Na ghajaan, aghe beh shah fosh nadee, roshan feker nistee.
These so called educated bunch were the sole reason khomenie who was uneducated clown tabdil shod be khoda. It is because people listend to this charlattans like sahabi, ghotbzadeh, sanjabi va yek mosht bi vatan hayed dighe who made khomenie into a demi-god. Comment like the sun is rising from paris this morning and we need to pray that way by these charlattans were hilarious and ironic. How can we forget khomenies strands in the holly book and his face in the moon beauties as well.
They knew full well who khomenie was but because they wanted power and revenge, they sacrificed iran because they thought they could crontroll khomenie once in power.They knew khomenie had the power through mass deciption and lies to unite the people behind them to grab power and they even backstabbed two of their former people in Sedighi and bakhtiyar just to get to the top. This charlattans are like voulchers but karma is a wonderfull thing.Now they are all suffering or have sufferd by the hand of the same man they held.Yazdi the murderer is in prison and hopefully will die a slow death. Ghotzadeh was executed by khomenie(how ironic). Sahabi is a senile old fool sitting somewhere still praising khomenie and calling him imam rahel(in 2009 he said shoar hyee sakhtar shekan nadid dar tazohoratt mardoom) , bazargan got screwed(but atleast he admitted we should have reformed the monarchy), sanjabi got booted out of iran(rotting in hell hopefully) and the rest of them are rotting as well all over the place. History has not and will continue to not look well aupon these sell outs power hungry voulchers.
Last but not least, shah agreed with the idea of making iran's oil national and infact it was reza shah who first said and talked about this.At the time iran did not have the power to go against the powers and reza shah was ousted.As ziba kalam said, there are two men who modern iran owes it's current exsistence to. Reza Shah and Mohamad khan.Not mossadegh or the shah.
...former communist student, current unemployed retard. In a candid moment on the front-lines of another crusade against shahollahis, soap and sanity:
