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To be first in the Middle East is not enough. We must raise ourselves to the level of a great world power.
Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
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Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
Age: 60 †
Born: 1919
Born: October 26
Died: 1980
Died: July 27
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Nixon is a strong leader with a good grasp of the world's problems. He knows that the only way to argue with the communists is from a position of strength.
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Henry Kissinger is possessed of a truly superior intelligence, in addition to which he has two qualities which, unfortunately, many great men lack: he is able to listen and he has a very subtle sense of humour.
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For all its apparent tolerance, the USA maintains a peculiar balance between the forces of capitalism and democracy. To achieve this I feel sure the country is guided by some hidden force an organization working in secrecy, powerful enough to dispose of the Kennedys and of anyone else who gets in its way.
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Yugoslavia is, with Iran, the only country which under difficult, not to say agonising, circumstances stood up to Joseph Stalin. It was not easy to unite ethnic groups or to modernize a country like Yugoslavia, and it must be acknowledged that Marshal Tito achieved something extraordinary. May God grant that his successors be as capable as he.
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Soviet propaganda is remarkably effective and the Americans are even more remarkably stupid.
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Today the name of America has a magic meaning for the most distant commmunities of the world.
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It would serve the Americans right if we emptied the prisons and let the subversives take power. They'd soon show Washington just how much they appreciate good old American values.
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The Jewish press in the USA is solely responsible for our poor publicity.
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