I watched 4 mins of that slanderous, nonsensical BULLSHIT. Not surprising that a 9/11 troofer, Holocaust Denying Douche bag would pelt such crap!
Reza Shah (the Shah of Iran Sr) was the guy who started the modernization movement in Iran! He built the railroads and modernized the infrastructure. He created the Parliament and Iranian constitution! He kicked off the constitutional revolution!
Here was Reza's (the Shah's Father) Legacy
Historic Personalities of Iran: Reza Shah Pahlavi
- Iranian Railway.
- Iranian treasury.
- Creation of the first university in Iran.
- Eradication of malaria.
- Eradication of corruption in civil servants, paying wages in time so people didn't have to rely on bribes.
- Creation of schoolbooks; before Reza Shah the Islamic madreseh was the only form of schooling and the Koran the only widely available book.
- Creation of birth certificates for all Iranians
- Start the Modernization of Iran
- Constutional Revolution
- Created the Iranian Parliament
Reza seeked reformed for women (which the clock was turned back on the by the Ayatollahs) and esp for the Jews. His son expanded on both of these!
A Brief History of Iranian Jews
Reza was forced from power in 1941 and DESPITE FALSEHOODS the Shah of Iran took power in 1941!!! I know everyone makes it seem like he took power in 1953, but that is when he consolidated power! Big difference!
Mohammad Mosaddegh became prime mininster in 1951. His first act was to break contracts signed with the British. Although the terms were viewed as unfair, Iran contracted freely with the British to set up operations to drill the oil. Iran didn't have the technology or know-hows to drill the way the modernized West did. The British had great terms because the Iranians didn't have the technology. Again the Iranians entered the deal freely, but like most revisionist, they say Britian stole the oil! Then Mosaddegh comes in promises one thing, break the contract with Britian! The guy did nothing but that and isolated Iran. He did this with one major problem, IRAN HAD NO IDEA HOW EXTRACT THEIR OIL ON THEIR OWN!!!
What did Mossaddegh's actions cause! BLOWBACK. It created a crisis that Iran couldn't afford. Iran had to originally contract with Britian to develop it's oil reserves because they didn't have the knowledge, technology or know-hows to do it. Leftist teach that Mossaddegh was a hero, but in fact when he kicked the British out, he created a crisis where no oil at all was being pulled from the ground and sold. Iran's economy was entirely dependent of this oil revenue. It would be like a billion dollar widget company selling millions of widgets a day going to selling zero overnight! That company would be in serious trouble!
Funny Britian developed Saudi Arabia, Kuwaits and Iraq's oil at the time and none of these countries feel apart or screamed of getting riped off. In fact Mossaddegh's move was a godsend to these countries, since Britian stepped up 10 fold production in these countries!
http://www.tehrantimes.com/PDF/10409/10409-16.pdf
The entire Iranian oil industry came to a virtual standstill, oil production dropping from 241,400,000 barrels (38,380,000 m3) in 1950 to 10,600,000 barrels (1,690,000 m3) in 1952. This Abadan Crisis reduced Iran's oil income to almost nil, putting a severe strain on the implementation of Mosaddegh's promised domestic reforms. At the same time BP and Aramco doubled their production in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Iraq, to make up for lost production in Iran so that no hardship was felt in Britain
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Mohammad (the Shah of Iran) saw this as any leader (dictator or elected President) would see it, as extremely troubling and alarming! The Iranian economy's life source was at a standstill.
The stoppage of oil production was creating a crisis. Mosaddegh convinced parliament to give Mosadegh emergency powers to which he used them cease power over the military. Lastly Mosadegh unjustly viewed Britian as the cause of his failed policies moved the country towards the Soviets and started to push the country towards communism!
The people were becoming poorer by the day!
http://www.tehrantimes.com/PDF/10409/10409-16.pdf
Mosaddegh's policies bankrupted the country and collasped the economy and pushed them towards communism. During cold war times, the US couldn't have Persia turn into a Soviet base, esp since the Arab countries made that turn. The CIA helped the Shah coup Mosaddegh and the Shah consolidated power.
The Shah was a secular Muslim and seeked to make Iran the first secular modernized Muslim country, something his father started and he seeked to continue. The Islamist hated him for being non-religious and seeking freedom of religion. They hated him because he wasn't anti-Israel. This was his biggest mistake. His opponents exploited this. If you weren't anti-Israel you were pro-Israel. If he would have taken at least a public anti-Israel stance he would have still been in power today!
Nowadays most Iranians see that Iran was more prosperous under that Shah and the government was actually LESS REPRESSIVE!
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the 1990s and the decade following 2000, the Shah's reputation has staged something of a revival, with many Iranians looking back on his era as a time when Iran was more prosperous and the government less oppressive.
Journalist Afshin Molavi reports even members of the uneducated poor - traditionally core supporters of the revolution that overthrew the Shah - making remarks such as 'God bless the Shah's soul, the economy was better then;' and finds that "books about the former Shah (even censored ones) sell briskly," while "books of the Rightly Guided Path sit idle."
The leftist bash the Shah, but he continued were his father left off in modernizing Iran. He ended the oil crisis that the arrogant Mosaddegh caused. He enacted huge land reforms so peasant farmers could own land and not be enslaved to the land owners. He granted women sufferage to vote in the parliament. He started the
White Revolution.
The White Revolution did the following:
Iran: The White Revolution - TIME
- Land Reforms Program and Abolishing "Feudalism": The government bought the land from the feudal land lords at what was considered to be a fair price and sold it to the peasants at 30% below the market value, with the loan being payable over 25 years at very low interest rates. This made it possible for 1.5 million peasant families, who had once been little more than slaves, to own the lands that they had been cultivating all their lives. Given that average size of a peasant family was 5, land reforms program brought freedom to approximately 9 million people, or 40% of Iran's population.
- Nationalization of Forests and Pasturelands: Introduced many measures, not only to protect the national resources and stop the destruction of forests and pasturelands, but also to further develop and cultivate them. More than 9 million trees were planted in 26 regions, creating 70,000 acres (280 km²) of "green belts" around cities and on the borders of the major highways.
- Privatization of the Government Owned Enterprises, manufacturing plants and factories by selling their shares to the public and the old feudal lords, thus creating a whole new class of factory owners who could now help to industrialize the country.
- Profit Sharing for industrial workers in private sector enterprises, giving the factory workers and employees 20% share of the net profits of the places where they worked and securing bonuses based on higher productivity or reductions in costs.
- Extending the Right to Vote to Women, who previously did not enjoy suffrage. This measure was criticised by some of the clergy.
- Formation of the Literacy Corps, so that those who had a high school diploma and were required to serve their country as soldiers could do so in fighting illiteracy in the villages. In 1963 aprox. 2/3 of the population was illiterate, with 1/3 found mainly in the capital city of Tehran.
- Formation of the Health Corps to extend public health care throughout the villages and rural regions of Iran. In 3 years, almost 4,500 medical groups were trained; nearly 10 million cases were treated by the Corps.
- Formation of the Reconstruction and Development Corps to teach the villagers the modern methods and techniques of farming and keeping livestock. Agricultural production between 1964 and 1970 increased by 80% in tonnage and 67% in value.
- Formation of the Houses of Equity where 5 village elders would be elected by the villagers, for a period of 3 years, to act as arbitrators in order to help settle minor offences and disputes. By 1977 there were 10,358 Houses of Equity serving over 10 million people living in over 19,000 villages across the country.
- Nationalization of all Water Resources, introduction of projects and policies in order to conserve and benefit from Iran's limited water resources. Many dams were constructed and five more were under construction in 1978. It was as a result of these measures that the area of land under irrigation increased from 2 million acres (8,000 km²), in 1968, to 5.6 million in 1977.
- Urban and Rural Modernization and Reconstruction with the help of the Reconstruction and Development Corps. Building of public baths, schools and libraries; installing water pumps and power generators for running water and electricity.
- Didactic Reforms that improved the quality of education by diversifying the curriculum in order to adapt to the necessities of life in the modern world.
- Workers' Right to Own Shares in the Industrial Complexes where they worked by turning Industrial units, with 5 years history and over, into public companies, where up to 99% of the shares in the state-owned enterprises and 49% of the shares of the private companies would be offered for sale to the workers of the establishment at first and then to the general public.
- Price Stabilization and campaign against unreasonable profiteering (1975). Owners of factories and large chain stores were heavily fined, with some being imprisoned and other's licenses being revoked. Sanctions were imposed on multi-national foreign companies and tons of merchandise stored for speculative purposes were confiscated and sold to consumers at fixed prices.
- Free and Compulsory Education and a daily free meal for all children from kindergarten to 14 years of age. In 1978, 25% of Iranians were enrolled in public schools alone. In that same year there were 185,000 students of both sexes studying in Iran's universities. In addition to the above there were over 100,000 students pursuing their studies abroad, of which 50,000 were enrolled in colleges and universities in the United States.
- Free Food for Needy Mothers and for all newborn babies up to the age of two.
- Introduction of Social Security and National Insurance for all Iranians. National Insurance system provided for up to 100% of the wages during retirement.
- Stable and Reasonable Cost of Renting or Buying of Residential Properties (1977). Controls were placed on land prices and various forms of land speculation.
- Introduction of Measures to Fight against Corruption within the bureaucracy. Imperial Inspection Commission was founded, consisting of representatives from administrative bodies and people of proven integrity.
He created and expanded diplomatic, economic and trade ties with Western and Eastern Europe, the US, China, Saudi Arabia and Israel. He grew and modernized the country. His support of Israel, Secularism and Modernization (best for his country and the people) was his downfall in country with too many radical Islamic extremist!
Was he arrogant? Yes Did he get corrupted by his power, wealth and influence? Absolute! But was he the BEST ruler (outside of Israel) in the Middle East over the last 1000 years? Arguably YES!
