Thread by @4FreedominIran

Just a glimpse of what the Shah did with Iran and his son never condemned it.
1. Shah's military courts which were unconstitutional tried as terrorists anyone brave enough to protest his regime. The verdict was often decided beforehand.
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2. The Shah systematically dismantled the judicial system of Iran and the country's guarantees of personal and social liberties. His regime consistently violated the codes of law and justice,
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3. destroying the dignity of our people by treating them like backward savages to be pulled with an iron hand out of the middle ages into the light of the modern era. Nearly every source of creative,
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4. artistic and intellectual endeavor in our culture was suppressed.
3. 80 percent of peasant families remaining landless, about the growing shanty towns holding the displaced peasants,
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the misery and alienation of these people ripped from their traditional way of life and subject to new economic and cultural pressures.
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4. 60 percent of adults left illiterate, and the increasing income gap which made Iran one of the world's most unequal societies.
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5. The royal family was involved heavily in financial scandals and heroin smuggling on a global scale.
6. SAVAK conducted the most savage form of torture. Amnesty International reports methods of torture that included
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"whipping and beating, electric shocks, extraction of teeth and nails, boiling water pumped into the rectum, heavy weights hung on the testicles, tying the prisoner to a metal table heated to a white heat,
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inserting a broken bottle into the anus, and rape."
7. The Shah greatly expanded the military and turned it against his own people. Despite claims that a strong army was needed to prevent external aggression,
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its real purpose became clear last year when the army murdered more than 50,000 Iranians fighting the Shah.
8. Under the Shah education was a means of pacification. The history books were full of lies about the glories of the Iranian dynasties,
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and they encouraged racism towards non-Persian-speaking minorities in Iran as well as nearby nations.
9. A special military guard was stationed on most large university campuses to mute student opposition.
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The number of students tortured, lost, or murdered is unknown.
10. The national minorities in Iran have fared even worse. Millions of Kurds, Turks, Arabs, Baluchis, and
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Turkamans were deprived of the right to learn in their mother tongues, and no cultural expression or publication was allowed in their languages.
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