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...opposition is made up of both orthodox moslems who want to reverse the Shah's Westernization of this traditional Islamic society, and political dissidents who want to end his authoritarian rule...
TEHRAN--Thousands of oil workers launched a new round of work slowdowns Monday, further endangering Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi's position by diminishing Iran's all-important oil revenue, sources said today...
...enjoy such close ties with Iranians in power that they have been reluctant to develop contacts with Iranians in the opposition. Bemoaned one intelligence expert: "I think we probably knew more about Muslim dissidents on the Soviet side of the border than we did about those in Iran." The Shah drastically underestimated the strength of his opposition, and the U.S. followed suit...
...Shah of Shahs, ruler of Iran's Peacock Throne, once dreamed of lifting his country's backward economy at breakneck speed into the 21st century. Now that dream has been battered by months of rioting and country-wide strikes. The economy that Iranians confidently predicted would soon match that of West Germany or Japan now seems destined to compare with that of Turkey or Southern Italy...
This year the government was forced to reduce the growth of spending and hold down spiraling wages. The Shah's austerity plan, mixed in with the rising expectations and rising prices, produced an economic Molotov cocktail. Government workers, their salaries ravaged by inflation unofficially estimated at more than 50% last year, went on strike. They were soon followed by 67,000 workers in the oilfields and employees in the post office, national airline, customs, telephone and steel companies and power stations...