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As Far As We Are Concerned, We Are Not The Toys Of Any Country, Including The United States.

I Want The Standard Of Living In Iran In Ten Years' Time To Be Exactly On A Level With That In Europe Today. In Twenty Years' Time We Shall Be Ahead Of The United States.

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.

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.

Pride Comes Before A Fall - Although In [henry Kissinger's] Case It's More Conceit Than Pride.