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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...
from Iran's Shahanshah, Mohammed Resa Pahlavi...
...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...
Clearly, Shah Reza Pahlavi has much to gain through Harvard's cooperation in an Iranian research center. The Shah hopes that by dealing with prestigious American universities such as Harvard he can promote his own image, and that of his nation as being democratic, freedom-loving and in favor of economic and social development...