Shah Is A Kind Of Magic Word

Let The Dog Bark; The Moon Shall Beam On.

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.

When You Think I've Been Wounded By A Good Five Bullets, One In The Face, One In The Shoulder, One In The Head, Two In The Body, And That The Last One Stuck In The Barrel Because The Trigger Jammed... You Have To Believe In Miracles. I've Had So Many Air Disasters, And Yet I've Always Come Out Unscathed - Thanks To A Miracle While By God And The Prophets.

Was The Collaboration Of Some Slaves Any Different Than The Silence Of Some Iranians Who Stood By And Did Nothing As Savak Thugs Murdered And Tortured Opponents Of The Shah? How Could We Judge Other Men Until We Had Stood In Their Shoes?

What's Happened Recently In Pakistan, India And Kuwait Only Goes To Show That It's Futile To Imitate Western Democracy. They've Ended Up Exactly Where They Started.