“In a country where the sole employer is the State, opposition means death by slow starvation. The old principle: who does not work shall not eat, has been replaced by a new one: who does not obey shall not eat.”

Mohammad Reza Pahlavi

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About Mohammad Reza Pahlavi

Monarch Iranian

Mohammad Reza Pahlavi was the last Shah of Iran, ruling from 1941 until his overthrow in the Iranian Revolution in 1979. His reign was marked by the White Revolution, a series of far-reaching reforms aimed at...

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