A CBS 60 Minutes, Mike Wallace, interview with the late king of Iran, Mohammadreza Pahlavi, from the 1970's on the media control by the Jews:
.. no doubt why he was overthrown.
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi was the last Shah of Iran, overthrown in the 1979 Iranian revolution. He is pictured here with his wife, Farah Pahlavi, former Empress of Iran
Mohammed Reza Pahlavi became Shah in 1941 when an Anglo-Soviet invasion forced his father to abdicate the throne. Allied forces were concerned about the old Shah's Nazi sympathies and wanted to deprive Germany of Iranian oil by replacing him with his more compliant son.
Foreign meddling in Iran's affairs only increased after World War II. The country became a major chess piece coveted by the Americans and the Soviets because of its vast oil reserves.
During the Cold War, the Shah survived a Soviet-orchestrated assasination attempt and received British and American covert help to depose Mohammed Mossadegh, a political rival who was Prime Minister in the early 1950s. Mohammed Reza was the first Muslim leader to recognized the state of Israel, a move that made him controversial both at home and abroad.
It is perhaps not suprising then that when Mohammed Reza Shah was forced into exile by the Islamic Revolution, the main charge lobbied against him was that his regime had become a puppet of Western powers.
He also angered clerics and conservatives by giving women the right to vote and instituting government-sponsored exams for Muslim clergy. Opponents also critized the Shah's lavish entertaining and extravagant lifestyle.
Mohammed Reza styled himself a modernizer, but became increasingly autocratic during his reign, banning opposition parties and torturing dissidents. Of course, it did not help that while his government was getting help from the CIA, the KGB was lending its support to the opposition.
This last shah's reign, under which Iran marked 2500 years of continuous monarchy since the founding of the Persian Empire, came to an end in 1979.
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