Shah is a kind of magic word with the Persian people.

My advisers built a wall between myself and my people. I didn't realize what was happening. When I woke up, I had lost my people.

My main mistake was to have made an ancient people advance by forced marches toward independence, health, culture, affluence, comfort.

Let me tell you quite bluntly that this king business has given me personally nothing but headaches.

Few Iranians these days go through the fiction of calling themselves 'Persian.' Calling yourself Persian is a way of distancing themselves from Iran.

I'm kind of over people using the word 'bae'. Let's get rid of that.