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StevieM

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33. The Shah was never this bad.

Reply to PSPS (Reply #7)

Tue Nov 15, 2022, 07:30 PM

Nov 2022

There were certainly legitimate criticisms to be made of him. And his authoritarian regime is subject to condemnation. But he never approached the level of evil that we have long seen from the Iranian theocracy.

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Gee. Just like back in the Shah days! PSPS Nov 2022 #7

THIS!!! Samrob Nov 2022 #29

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