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54-5: 'Adopting Western conceptions of progress naturally implied that Eastern standards were to be viewed as obsolete or primitive, but along with the sense of inferiority this engendered, the nakedly parasitic nature of so much of the West's dealings with the kingdom provoked intense hostility. The end result was a complex love-hate relationship ... born of equal parts attraction, envy and deepest distrust.'
— Jan 03, 2026 09:43AM
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Shah about to fall. Mirroring of the palace intrigue at Niavaran with similar under President Carter with State, CIA, and NSC. Crazy how few analysts the US across all its intelligence agencies actually had working on Iran. Lots of (both American and Iranian) CYA going on both in the moment and retrospectively—US Ambassador William H. Sullivan's is probably the most shameless, though.
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