Thread by @LucidIran

A thread:

The Pahlavi dynasty abolished slavery in Iran, gave women rights, and sheltered Jews when they were internationally targeted.

Slavery:

Although slavery was not prevalent in pre-Islamic Iran, it had become a social issue by the late Qajar era.

Africans, Jews, and Georgians were among the most common of slaves who were used in different labor segments and for different tasks.

Slaves were either imported or domestically abducted.

By the emergence of Reza Shah the Great, and therefore the modernization of a religious and ultra-conservative society, slavery as a practice was forever diminished.

Women’s rights:

Prior to the emergence of Reza Shah and his son, it was taboo for women to dress without head-coverings, attend public gatherings without a male guardian, or vote!

Reza Shah began incorporating women into important segments of the society and made it voluntary for women to dress however they desired.

Women’s legal rights were best achieved under Mohammad Reza Pahlavi’s white revolution in 1963.

To have taken the hijab/scarf off as a mandated law for women, at a time where Iran was extremely conservative and superstitious due to the incompetence of the Qajar leadership, one could have thought Reza Shah was making a dire mistake and welcoming his end.

However, not only was he able to keep the clerics in check, he actually started with his own family.

He invited all of the women in his family without head-coverings to appear publicly, to show the nation of Iran that he is not afraid of any backlashes.

This took guts!

By 1963, the white revolution had occurred by the command of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, and female literacy, voting rights, and other freedoms were skyrocketing.

Women could sing, host, vote, teach, serve in the military, and attend wherever they wanted however they wanted.

Sheltering Jews:

This particular segment is for all the communists and separatists who propagate the common myth of Reza Shah being a Nazi.

Iran was neutral during the second world war but Reza Shah did not hesitate to shelter non-Iranian Jews who sought refuge or protect his own Jewish Iranian compatriots.

Here is a list of all Polish Jews arriving in Iran, somewhere between 1942-1943 with their full names.

Children in Orphan-Asylum in Pahlewi, Iran, From Lunaczarsk near Tashkent and children from an Orphan Asylum in Samarkand (USSR) Arriving in Pahlew, Iran:

As Iranians, we are forever grateful that our nation witnessed the rise of these two great men who served in favor of Iranian interests before and above all else.

The Pahlavi dynasty was a momentary period where Iranians sensed freedom and prosperity, something the incompetent kings before them and the violent mullahs after them could not and will not implement.

This is also why we trust @PahlaviReza, the grandson of Reza Shah the great, and the honorable son of Mohammad Reza Shah.

A non-contradictory patriot who wishes nothing but the best for Iran and Iranians.