Word: pahlevi
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...existence of a double standard that forgives the collaboration of leftists while anathemizing rightists is not at all obvious to me. During the Cold War, scholars who collaborated with right-wing dictatorships were welcome at Harvard. (Tellingly, in 1968, the University granted an honorary doctorate to Mohammed Reza Pahlevi, the shahanshah of Iran...
...However, Kermit Roosevelt's fame did not come through electoral politics, but through clandestine activities. As CIA chief in the Middle East in the 1950s, Kermit Roosevelt organized a successful coup to bring Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi to power in Iran and remove Prime Minister Mohammed Mossadegh...
...period characterized by student dissent--Harvard students protested the appearance of Shah Muhammed Reza Pahlevi of Iran, interrupting his speech several times in an overcrowded Sanders Theatre...
...Sanders Theater where they were held from 1876 through 1915--there were more things for University officials to worry about than an early June downpour. The year was 1968, and it was, Anderson says, "the start of student dissent," when Harvard students protested the appearance of Shah Muhammed Reza Pahlevi of Iran, whose speech was interrupted several times in an overcrowded Sanders...
...talk, Sullivan reiterated, sometimes sarcastically, his criticism of Zbigniew Brzezinski, national security adviser to President Carter, and blamed internal Carter administration "scrapping" for what he termed a paralysis in U.S.policy towards the Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlevi in the final stages of his rule...