Good point, BUT, the shah might have been a bastard but he was our bastard.
Jimmy Carter's inability to understand "real politics" and innate cowardice made matters much worse and gave us this World War III.
So instead of.... "the Shah who was as homicidal as any Persian Dictator before or after--plus he was a Nazi and was filled, as were the leading intellectuals of the day with Jew hatred "
...we now have Mr.Amadinnerjacket who is ...as homicidal as any Persian Dictator but with a nuke and a few million crazies...
Which begs the question: Do we leave him alone or do we take him out???
Don't be confused by the different shah's being discussed