Kayhan London(Subtitled)
A Look Through the Window at Contemporary Iranian History and One Hundred Years of Pahlavi|
Prepared and Arranged by Farid Khalifi
Seventy-Six
The Era of Mohammad Reza Shahi; A Blow to Iran in Germany
On June 27, 1967, at the height of the Cold War, the Shah and Queen Mother of Iran arrived in West Germany for a nine-day visit. In the 1960s, Imperial Iran was the engine of modernization in the Middle East. A powerful country, a strategic ally of the West that was considered a strong barrier in the region against the Soviet Union and political Islam. Therefore, Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi had become the simultaneous target of two destructive currents. The Marxist leftists affiliated with the Eastern Bloc and the Islamists who had been hurt and marginalized by the Shah’s fundamental reforms in the White Revolution, such as giving equal social rights to women, distributing agricultural land among peasants, and pushing the country toward secularism.
Watch Through the Window
To be continued …
