62 Quotes by Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

O Cyrus, great King, King of Kings, Achaemenian King, King of the land of Iran. I, the Shahanshah of Iran, offer thee salutations from myself and from my nation. Rest in peace, for we are awake, and we will always stay awake.

They want liberalization! I’ll give them liberalization. I’ll loosen the screws until the Americans beg me to tighten them again.

My advisers built a wall between myself and my people. I didn’t realize what was happening. When I woke up, I had lost my people.

Nobody can influence me, nobody. Still less a woman. Women are important in a man’s life only if they’re beautiful and charming and keep their femininity.

What’s happened recently in Pakistan, India and Kuwait only goes to show that it’s futile to imitate Western democracy. They’ve ended up exactly where they started.

It would serve the Americans right if we emptied the prisons and let the subversives take power. They’d soon show Washington just how much they appreciate good old American values.

Muslim brothers be damned; they’re our greatest enemies. You know yourself that I’m a Muslim, even a fanatical Muslim. But that does nothing to alter my opinion of the Arabs.

Nixon is a strong leader with a good grasp of the world’s problems. He knows that the only way to argue with the communists is from a position of strength.