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Tom Rinaldo

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8. This all sounds good. But I remember when the Shah of Iran sounded good too.

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Mon Nov 6, 2017, 12:14 PM

Nov 2017

The Shah was relatively advanced in his thinking on issues of women's rights, but below his western public relations surface, he was still an autocrat imposed on the Iranian public, and that festered into the revolution that brought in the current Iranian regime.

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This all sounds good. But I remember when the Shah of Iran sounded good too. Tom Rinaldo Nov 2017 #8