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"So again: What did the Shah do wrong?"

You are being just like our leftist counterparts who will overlook anything Mossadegh did just because he was "their guy". Well, the Shah may have been "our guy" but as I stated before, he was no saint.

The point of all of this was an original response of mine to your response as to why the Iranian people did not rise up to protect the Shah. Well, if your leader were employing SAVAK on the people with many widely documented civil rights violations to include tortures such as stuffing things up people's rectums, you might not be itching to fight for him either. You might think, meh maybe the Ayotolla ain't so bad...

Why is it necessary to be a “saint” to lead a country and maintain the peace?

Mossadegh did nothing good, bottom line. Why are you defending him? He destabilized Iran and stole from western oil companies that were helping his country stay afloat. He was a friend of the Soviets.

No, the point is that the leftists were allowed to help the Islamists stir up the “people” through their usual tactics of class warfare, to induce the removal of the rightful shah and establish an Islamic tyranny in its place. Whatever the last Shah did (including the establishment of SAVAK) was a reaction to that insurrection to keep the peace and keep a monster at bay. But you seem to want to fight the propaganda war of the Islamists and leftists for them.