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I Argo beskrivs shahen som korrupt och diktatorisk. Lt sin befolkningen svlta och anvnde sig av tortyr. Vilket lede till revolution efter ratal av frtryck. Blev nyfiken p verkligheten. Filmer har en tendens att inte flja historien korrekt.
Det jag har lst p internet r att han frde Iran nrmare vst, sekulariserade landet, gav kvinnor rtten att rsta, utbildade befolkningen. Gjorde landet modernt i tiden och gav befolkningen nationalism. Vad r den sanna bilden? Hur var det att leva i Iran under shahens tid vid makten? Ofantligt intresserad. Hur var landet innan den demokratiska ledaren strtades och ersattes av shahen?
Iran fre 1979 var ingen vsterlndsk demokrati, men har svartmlats det grvsta. Shahen drev mycket riktigt igenom en rad moderniseringsprogram med hjlp av sina oljeintkter - frn utbildningsvsendet till ktenskapslagstiftningen.
Wikipedia sger "Explanations for why Mohammad Reza was overthrown include that he was a dictator put in place by a non-Muslim Western power, the United States, whose foreign culture was seen as influencing that of Iran. Additional contributing factors included reports of oppression, brutality, corruption, and extravagance. Basic functional failures of the regime have also been blamed economic bottlenecks, shortages and inflation; the regime's over-ambitious economic program; the failure of its security forces to deal with protest and demonstration; the overly centralized royal power structure."
"Other actions that are thought to have contributed to his downfall include antagonizing formerly apolitical Iranians especially merchants of the bazaars with the creation in 1975 of a single party political monopoly (the Rastakhiz Party), with compulsory membership and dues, and general aggressive interference in the political, economic, and religious concerns of people's lives"
Just reformatrer i icke-demokratiska stater lper stor risk att angripas bde av mer revolutionra grupper vilka vill g snabbare i reformarbetet som reaktionra krafter vilka helt vill stoppa reformerna. Utan en kombination av list, frankring och en plitlig statsapparat r risken fr revolt stor - vilket intrffade i shahens fall.
Wikipedia igen: "It has been argued that the White Revolution was "shoddily planned and haphazardly carried out", upsetting the wealthy while not going far enough to provide for the poor or offer greater political freedom.
Some achievements of the Shahsuch as broadened educationhad unintended consequences. While school attendance rose (by 1966 the school attendance of urban seven- to fourteen-year-olds was estimated at 75.8%), Iran's labor market could not absorb a high number of educated youth. In 1966, high school graduates had "a higher rate of unemployment than did the illiterate", and educated unemployed often supported the revolution"