Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

Shah is a kind of magic word with the Persian people.

Let me tell you quite bluntly that this king business has given me personally nothing but headaches.

My main mistake was to have made an ancient people advance by forced marches toward independence, health, culture, affluence, comfort.

My advisers built a wall between myself and my people. I didn't realize what was happening. When I woke up, I had lost my people.