[Perdogg]

Well, according to this it was France.

He was one of the chief architects of Opec’s policies - he thought he could drag his people into the modern age - yet was surprised when the West refused to give him shelter when he needed it. (He who controls the oil, controls who our friends are.) He was also naive. The man was impressed by our Western ways, having gone to the Rosey, having partied with Gianni Agnelli in St Moritz, having used Madame Claude’s hookers and all that. But he forgot one thing. As it turned out, the most important: the power of religion and tradition.

[Clemenza]

As it turned out, the most important: the power of religion and tradition. Reza was way too tolerant of the Mullahs. He should have done an Ataturk (who, I believe, didn't go far enough). Call me an extremist, but I believe that the cancer of a politically active clergy should be taken out by any means necessary for the good of the nation.