"In the Shah’s time, when I went to Italy, they stood up for me, they talked to me with respect. When I went to France…"

"To witness the collective dispossession of the nurtured tradition and way of life in an entire nation, travel to Iran…"

"Iran is the country of the poorest of the poor and the richest of the rich. The lot of the majority of people in Iran…"

"Iran, because of the great leadership of the Shah, is an island of stability in one of the more troubled areas of the…"

"The reason most of my countrymen would tell you that they carry a grudge against the United States is that the U.S. g…"

"In Iran one cannot stage Hamlet, Richard III or Macbeth because no Iranian should see the death of a prince or a king…"

"It is a zoo in a glass tower. There are no kings, queens, princes, princesses, generals, ministers or secret agents h…"

"The large Iranian-American Jewish community in the United States, whose population is estimated to be close to 120,00…"

"I envisaged future generations of Iranians proudly taking their rightful place among the vast family of nations, and …"

"I was taught in my history classes that the Shah was a tin-pot dictator installed by the CIA to subdue Iran’s leftist…"