contrary to what many believed, my father was kind and tenderhearted, especially towards his family. His forbidding sternness seemed to melt into love, kindness, and easy familiarity when he was with us. Especially with me, his acknowledged successor to the… — Mohammed Reza Pahlavi Copy Share Image
Yugoslavia is, with Iran, the only country which under difficult, not to say agonising, circumstances stood up to Joseph Stalin. It was not easy to unite ethnic groups or to modernize a country like Yugoslavia, and it must be acknowledged… — Mohammed Reza Pahlavi Copy Share Image
They want liberalization! I'll give them liberalization. I'll loosen the screws until the Americans beg me to tighten them again. — Mohammed Reza Pahlavi Copy Share Image
He [the King of Morocco] spends half his time asleep and the rest of it buried between the legs of the fairer sex. — Mohammed Reza Pahlavi Copy Share Image
Muslim brothers be damned; they're our greatest enemies. You know yourself that I'm a Muslim, even a fanatical Muslim. But that does nothing to… — Mohammed Reza Pahlavi Copy Share Image
O Cyrus , great King, King of Kings, Achaemenian King, King of the land of Iran. I, the Shahanshah of Iran, offer thee salutations… — Mohammed Reza Pahlavi Copy Share Image
A crown, a throne could not be based on the not too very solid foundation of blood. — Mohammed Reza Pahlavi Copy Share Image
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… — Mohammed Reza Pahlavi Copy Share Image
You approach the Mullahs as if they are normal people. They are not. You see them in your own image; you should not. — Mohammed Reza Pahlavi Copy Share Image
To be first in the Middle East is not enough. We must raise ourselves to the level of a great world power. — Mohammed Reza Pahlavi Copy Share Image
As far as we are concerned, we are not the toys of any country, including the United States. — Mohammed Reza Pahlavi Copy Share Image
For all its apparent tolerance, the USA maintains a peculiar balance between the forces of capitalism and democracy. To achieve this I feel sure… — Mohammed Reza Pahlavi Copy Share Image
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 -… — Mohammed Reza Pahlavi Copy Share
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