Revolution in Iran: Fall of the Shah (Part 1)

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  Iran, because of the great leadership of the Shah,

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  is an island of stability in one of the more troubled areas of the world.

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  This is a great tribute to you, your majesty, and to your leadership,

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  and to the respect and the admiration and love which your people give to you.

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  We in the United States have no other nation on earth who is closer to us in planning for our mutual military security.

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  And there is no leader with whom I have a deeper sense of personal gratitude and personal friendship.

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  On behalf of the people of the United States,

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  I would like to offer a toast at this time to the great leaders of Iran,

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  the Shah and the Shabanu, and to the people of Iran,

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  and to the world peace that we hope together we can help to bring.

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  Now,

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  people listening to that may think that that isn't the Englishman who can't do a good impression of someone from Georgia,

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  but it isn't.

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  It was actually Dominic, President Jimmy Carter, and he was toasting the last Shah of Iran,

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  as Americans call it, or as we in Britain call it correctly, Iran.

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  Mohammed Razer Pallavi and his wife Empress Farrah, the Shah Banu,

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  at a banquet in Iran's capital Tehran on New Year's Eve, 1977.

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  And Dominic, it is a moment ripe with irony.

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  Is it not?

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  It is indeed.

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