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Sir Mohamed
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« on: December 02, 2019, 10:44:32 AM »
Both are horrible, but the Shah was still a lesser evil than the Mullah regime. Oppression under the current regime is slightly worse and the Shah didn't sponsor that amount of terrorism outside Iran.
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« Reply #1 on: December 02, 2019, 12:09:09 PM »
Both brutally oppressed protestors, but one adds in theocracy and also wants to kill me. Easy choice.
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« Reply #2 on: December 02, 2019, 02:47:53 PM »
Quote from: Parrotguy on December 02, 2019, 12:09:09 PM
Both brutally oppressed protestors, but one adds in theocracy and also wants to kill me. Easy choice.
Word for word, this.
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« Reply #3 on: December 02, 2019, 02:59:41 PM »
Shah because secular oppression > theocratic oppression.
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« Reply #4 on: December 02, 2019, 04:30:06 PM »
The one that wasn't installed by foreign powers and didn't just cater to "Westernized" elites in Tehran at the expense of everyone else.

Both horrible, horrible regimes, of course.
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« Reply #5 on: December 02, 2019, 09:47:02 PM »
I’ll go with the secular evil.
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« Reply #6 on: December 02, 2019, 10:00:13 PM »
Quote from: PR on December 02, 2019, 04:30:06 PM
The one that wasn't installed by foreign powers and didn't just cater to "Westernized" elites in Tehran at the expense of everyone else.

Both horrible, horrible regimes, of course.

This.
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« Reply #7 on: December 02, 2019, 10:01:24 PM »
Both were terrible , but the Shah was clearly the lesser of two evils
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« Reply #8 on: December 02, 2019, 10:05:04 PM »
Quote from: PR on December 02, 2019, 04:30:06 PM
The one that wasn't installed by foreign powers and didn't just cater to "Westernized" elites in Tehran at the expense of everyone else.

Both horrible, horrible regimes, of course.

Instead it pandered to violent and fanatical paramilitaries and religious extremists.

Its a fact that the Mullahs held more political prisoners than the Shah. The Shah was a brutal and evil dictator, but the Mullahs are objectively worse.
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« Reply #9 on: December 02, 2019, 10:13:42 PM »
The Pahlavis were basically old-school fascists cosplaying as a monarchical dynasty. I'm not willing to say that's better than today's Iran, although I'm not sure if it's worse either. Didn't vote.
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« Reply #10 on: December 02, 2019, 10:41:38 PM »
write in: Mohammad Mossadegh
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« Reply #11 on: December 02, 2019, 11:07:19 PM »
Both the Shah and the Mullahs are equally terrible; the shah broke the country and the mullahs took its possible ways to become united as a better state in the trash, opting to use the glue of cronyism and religion.
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« Reply #12 on: December 02, 2019, 11:13:07 PM »

Whatever happened to that guy anyway?

It was very weird, one moment you have a democratic leader, and the next you're being ruled over by a totalitarian...

Seems like them oil fields needed some good old re-privatizing, and the democratic dude just wasn't up for it Cheesy
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« Reply #13 on: December 04, 2019, 02:35:41 PM »
The Shah
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« Reply #14 on: December 04, 2019, 04:29:25 PM »
I pick secular dictator who happens to be Muslim over Muslim theocratic Dictatorship.
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« Reply #15 on: December 06, 2019, 09:21:58 PM »
The Islamic Republic. Living standards are much better now then 40 years ago.
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