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In examining any dictatorship, there are two good tests. Firstly, what is the relation between the rulers and the proletariat or common people? Are t… - Mohammad Reza I of Iran
" "In examining any dictatorship, there are two good tests. Firstly, what is the relation between the rulers and the proletariat or common people? Are the rulers members of the proletariat, as they would have you believe? Do they even identify their interests with those of ordinary citizens? The truth seems to be that, no matter where you find them, the so-called proletarian dictatorships are actually controlled by a small elite who ordinarily lose little sleep in worrying about the rights of the common man. Secondly, have the proletariat any effective say in what the rulers do? In the proletarian dictatorships I am familiar with, ordinary people enjoy little or no control over their Government or over their own lives and futures.
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About Mohammad Reza I of Iran
Mohammad Rezā Shāh Pahlavi (Persian: محمدرضا شاه پهلوی, pronounced [mohæmmæd-rezɒː-ʃɒːh-e pæhlæviː]) (26 October 1919 – 27 July 1980) was the Shah of the Imperial State of Iran from 1941 until he was deposed in 1979 by the Islamic Revolution. He died in exile in Egypt.
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محمد رضا پهلوی
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Mohammad Rezā Shāh Pahlavī
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Shah of Iran Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
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Shah of Iran Moḥammad Rezā Shāh
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Shah of Iran Muhammed Reza Pahlavi
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Mohammed Reza, Shah of Iran Pahlavi
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Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi
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Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, Shah of Iran
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Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
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Mohammedreza pahlavi
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There was a sharp break in my life after 1953. I came to realize that I couldn't have the same relationships with my friends. Friendship involves the exchange of confidence between two people, but a king can take no one into his confidence. I have even had to put some distance between myself and my old friend Hossein Fardoust whom I trust implicitly. I even observe certain distances with members of my family. I had to tell my mother- who is a very dictatorial woman- that it would be better if she didn't ask me for favours for I might have to refuse her.
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