/siberia/ - Off-topic

Its because he wanted to modernize the country via industrialization and refused to fight the Israelis. So the good people of Iran replaced him with an Islamic republic that modernized the country through industrialization and refused to fight the Israelis

>>749419
By ""modernization"" you mean selling all Iranian oil and resources to western companies by banana price? Iranian resources rightfully nationalized by mossadegh anyway
The Pahlavis should've gotten the Romanov treatment

>>749496
>Iranian oil and resources
All iranian oil and resources were discovered mined the infrastucture to extract them built by western countrires the iranians didnt do shit for them other than happening to squat on the land.

>killed commies
>privatized everything
>opened oil for western multinationals
pic unrelated the Ayatollah is a bitch

>>749496
>Iran's Shah, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, fully nationalized the country's oil industry in 1973, taking control from a Western consortium after years of disputes over production and revenue, shifting from a seller-buyer model to Iranian state control under the National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC).
He did nationalize the oil anyways.

>>749521
Pahlavis distributed the land from big landowners.

the only valid reason to hate Pahlavi regime is if you're an fundamentalist Islamist/heavy traditionalist or SAVAK'd commie or support the current regime in spite of Israel (aka a /pol/fag).
leftypol is the latter two: SAVAK'd commies and /pol/ops.
Even locals around here admit Pahlavis modernized Iran (*which leftists recognize as a necessary materialist step from feudalism to capitalism).

>>749572
I was talking about the mullahs

>>749577
It is progressive insofar as creating the conditions for a workers movement. That movement already existed and it was driven to extinction by the monarchy and later theocracy.

It's like you're calling British colonialism progressive during the period of national wars of independence

Cuz you chew brains in your sleep

>>749586
It originally wasn't going to be a monarchy to begin with–the movement that already existed back then was the movement they were a part of.
No country is truly independent of foreign powers anyways or an island unto itself–it is just the wrong foreign powers (the USA/West) in this case.
Pahlavi dynasty is more comparable to enlightened despotism like Peter the Great to Russia or Joseph II.