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I Want The Standard Of Living In Iran In Ten Years' Time To Be Exactly On A Level With That In Europe Today. In Twenty Years' Time We Shall Be Ahead Of The United States.

It Would Serve The Americans Right If We Emptied The Prisons And Let The Subversives Take Power. They'd Soon Show Washington Just How Much They Appreciate Good Old American Values.

Contrary To What Many Believed, My Father Was Kind And Tenderhearted, Especially Towards His Family. His Forbidding Sternness Seemed To Melt Into Love, Kindness, And Easy Familiarity When He Was With Us. Especially With Me, His Acknowledged Successor To The Throne, He Would Play Lightheartedly. When We Were Alone Together, He Would Sing Me Little Songs; I Don't Remember His Ever Doing This In Front Of Others, But When Only The Two Of Us Were There, He Would Often Sing To Me.

The Saudis Have Never Shown Any Respect For Human Rights, Either Now Or In The Past. Even A Petty Burglar Faces Having One Of His Hands Chopped Off. The Liberal Press In America Prefers To Ignore All This, Although They Don't Hesitate To Blacken The Reputation Of Iran.

Let The Dog Bark; The Moon Shall Beam On.