As Far As We Are

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.

A Person Who Does Not Enter The New [rastakhiz] Party Is Either An Individual Who Belongs To An Illegal Organization, Or Is Related To The Outlaw Tudeh Party, Or In Other Words Is A Traitor. Such An Individual Belongs In An Iranian Prison, Or If He Desires, He Can Leave The Country Tomorrow, Because He Is Not An Iranian, He Has No Nation, And His Activities Are Illegal And Punishable According To Law.

Nixon Has The Audacity To Tell Me To Do Nothing In The Interest Of My Country Until He Dictactes Where That Interest Lies. At The Same Time He Threatens Me That Failure To Follow His So-called Advice Will Be To Jeopardize The Special Relations Between Our Two Countries. I Say To Hell With Such Special Relations.

The Shah Regarded Politics As The Province Of Demagoguery, An Art In Which Only Charlatans Could Excel. He Had No Time For What He Saw As The Tedious Process Of Achieving Consensus Through Debate And Discussion And Tried To Justify His Solitary Exercise Of Power By Insisting It Was What Iran Needed To Catch Up With Lost Time. He Believed He Was More Patriotic Than Anyone Else And Needed No Advice On How Best To Promote And Protect The Highest Interests Of The Nation.

We May Be Delighted To See Israel Putting The Arabs In Their Place, But We Have Repeatedly Condemned Their Occupation Of Arab Territory.