636. Revolution in Iran: Fall of the Shah (Part 1)
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Iran, because of the great leadership of the Shah, is an island of stability in one of the more troubled areas of the world. This is a great tribute to you, Your Majesty. and to your leadership and to the respect and the admiration and love which your people give to you. We in the United States have no other nation on earth who is closer to us in planning for our mutual military security. And there is no leader with whom I have a deeper sense of personal gratitude and personal friendship.
On behalf of the people of the United States, I would like to offer a toast at this time to the great leaders of Iran, the Shah and the Shah Banu, and to the people of Iran and to the world peace that we hope together we can help to bring. Now, people listening to that may think that that is the Englishman who can't do a good impression of someone from Georgia, but it isn't. It was actually Dominic, President Jimmy Carter, and he was posting the last shah of Iran, as Americans call it, or as we in Britain call it correctly, Iran. Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and his wife Empress Farah, the Shah Banu, at a banquet in Iran's capital, Tehran, on New Year's Eve, 1977. And Dominic, it is a moment ripe with irony, is it not?
It is indeed. It's one of the great ironic moments, not just of the nineteen seventies, but of the late 20th century. So this moment when Jimmy Carter is toasting the Shah and the Shah Banu, the friendship between Iran and the United States and the stability and the security that Iran offers in the Middle East, this comes just days before the outbreak of a violent revolution that sweeps the Shah from power and it kicks off the rule of the ayatollahs, who still govern Iran today. Well, Dominic, you say that.
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