Word: pahlavi
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...outside Warsaw, the Carters flew to Tehran. When Air Force One rolled to a stop at Mehrabad Airport, Carter was the first person to pop out of the door, his tan trenchcoat and slightly disheveled appearance contrasting a bit with the regal elegance of his host, Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi. On the way to the city, they drove along roads that were lined with more security men than well-wishers. Only a few hours earlier there had been five anti-American demonstrations...
...There is one thing I can say about the Shah: he knows how to draw a crowd."-Jimmy Carter, toasting Iran's Mohammed Reza Pahlavi at the White House last week...
Some OPEC members are pushing for as hefty a price increase as they can get away with. Venezuela's Minister of Mines and Hydrocarbons, Valentin Hernández, has already called for a 25% oil price boost, and Iran's Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi came out for at least a 15% price increase. Both countries want the additional revenues so they can press ahead with their ambitious plans for industrialization...
...Iran, since a coup restored Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi to his throne in 1953, says the Geneva-based International Commission of Jurists, human rights violations, including torture, "are alleged to have taken place on an unprecedented scale." Estimates of the number of political prisoners range from 25,000 to 100,000; it is widely believed most of them have been tortured by the SAVAK, secret police, which French lawyer Jean Michel Braunschweig, who investigated conditions in Iran last January, claims has 20,000 members and a network of some 180,000 paid informers. The country's repertory of tortures...
...part of our Bicentennial observance, TIME asked the leaders of nations round the world to speak to the American people through the pages of TIME on how they see the U.S. and what they hope, and expect, from it in the years ahead. This message from Mohammed Reza Pahlavi Shah of Iran is the third in 'the series...