Let Me Tell You Quite Bluntly That

The Shah Regarded Politics As The Province Of Demagoguery, An Art In Which Only Charlatans Could Excel. He Had No Time For What He Saw As The Tedious Process Of Achieving Consensus Through Debate And Discussion And Tried To Justify His Solitary Exercise Of Power By Insisting It Was What Iran Needed To Catch Up With Lost Time. He Believed He Was More Patriotic Than Anyone Else And Needed No Advice On How Best To Promote And Protect The Highest Interests Of The Nation.

Many Westerners Forget That When The Prophet Spoke Of Four Wives As The Maximum Allowable Number, He Had In Mind A Reduction To Four As Compared To The Number Then Often Prevailing; Moreover, Mohammed Specified That A Man Should Acquire More Than One Wife Only If He Could Treat Them All With Equal Justice - Obviously A Difficult Feat For Even The Most Diligent Man To Achieve. In Effect, Then, The Prophet Curtailed The Number Of Wives.

Who On Earth Do The Americans Suppose Their Allies Are Amongst The Arab World? Even Saudi Arabia They Seem To Regard As Nothing More Than A Resevoir Of Oil And Money.

They Want Liberalization! I'll Give Them Liberalization. I'll Loosen The Screws Until The Americans Beg Me To Tighten Them Again.

For All Its Apparent Tolerance, The Usa Maintains A Peculiar Balance Between The Forces Of Capitalism And Democracy. To Achieve This I Feel Sure The Country Is Guided By Some Hidden Force; An Organization Working In Secrecy, Powerful Enough To Dispose Of The Kennedys And Of Anyone Else Who Gets In Its Way.