There were a lot of abuses during the Shah’s reign; things were not all roses and cherries, particularly for the poorer rural population. The Iranian revolution in 1979 wasn’t some manufactured imposition on people who were otherwise doing quite well.
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Hmm..........who knew roses and cherries were an obligation of governance???
Man accepts/embraces his rule, be it Chinese, Greek, Aztec, Hapsburg among
many; or he rejects it, while fighting to change it. It's hardly complicated.
To their credit, the Phalevi's stabilized Iran after the turbulence created by the
Great War, as Kemal did in Turkey, and w/o the noisy antics of the Mullahs.
Perhaps Iran welcomes quietude rather than turbulence. Let's see!