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.
You approach the Mullahs as if they are normal people. They are not. You see them in your own image; you should not.
Shah is a kind of magic word with the Persian people.
My main mistake was to have made an ancient people advance by forced marches toward independence, health, culture, affluence, comfort.