A crown, a throne could not be based on the not too very solid foundation of blood.
Mohammed Reza PahlaviYou approach the Mullahs as if they are normal people. They are not. You see them in your own image; you should not.
Mohammed Reza PahlaviThe great powers claim that whatever they possess is theirs by right, but whatever we, the smaller countries possess is negotiable.
Mohammed Reza PahlaviWe may be delighted to see Israel putting the Arabs in their place, but we have repeatedly condemned their occupation of Arab territory.
Mohammed Reza PahlaviThe world petroleum story is one of the most inhuman known to man: in it, elementary moral and social principles are jeered at. If powerful oil trusts no longer despoil and humiliate our country it is not because these predators have become human, but because we have won a hard-fought battle which has been going on since the beginning of the century.
Mohammed Reza PahlaviFor 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.
Mohammed Reza Pahlavi