Hawzah News Agency – On the occasion of the Iranians' 43rd anniversary of victory of Islamic Revolution, some of crimes committed by Pahlavi King against Iran are presented to you, respected readers:

In the Pahlavi era, one of the most promoted propaganda was, "we cannot do it"

In the Pahlavi era, one of the vastly spread propaganda was "we cannot do it". All of us were brought up with the idea that the Iranian products are poor, inferior and of low quality; ‘Iranian’ is the equivalent for the inability to produce quality products in all arenas. They had institutionalized this culture in the mind of our nation, while the reality is totally different. This nation is a nation that can do it, can produce, can grow, can innovate, and can break through the boundaries of science and technology and advance.

Most of the officials in the Pahlavi era prevented the flourishing of talents

Great injustice was done to the Iranian nation and to our national identity for long years before the victory of the Islamic Revolution. The remarkable talent and potential that our dear youngsters have were also possessed by the previous generations. However, encouragement, motivation and self-confidence are needed in order for this potential to be fulfilled and developed. But the ruling regimes before the revolution did not take any steps in this direction. The officials of the former Pahlavi regime pursued certain policies that were aimed at suppressing the young generation's talent and potential and preventing the fulfillment of their potential. This reason for what they did was clear, since they believed that the Iranian nation should always remain dependent on outside powers, the powers that dictated such policies to the officials of the Pahlavi regime.

Reza Khan and Mohammed Reza were appointed to power by the UK

The British appointed Reza Khan as a puppet to obey their orders… but the moment when they felt Reza khan had started to disobey them and had developed an interest in independence—not real independence, rather obsession with the Nazi Germany under Hitler (as, when Reza Khan looked at Hitler, he was excited and pleased)—they put him aside and brought his son to power… For fifty-sixty years, those who ruled over us were not only not chosen by the people—because in Iran there was no such thing as the rule of the people previously—they had not even come to power due to their own grit. I wish that if they were a dictator, at least, they would have come to power with their own power, like Nader Shah, or with their own cunningness, like Agha-Mohammad-Khan, but it was not the case. Others came and put them in power to dominate the nation and looted all the material and spiritual resources of this nation.

To be continued...

Source: Khamenei.ir