[stevepaa]

Uh no. Go read up on it. The storm had been brewing for decades. He fed the fires with some of his policies and his SAVAK. When he left, there was jubilation in the streets there and here among Iranian students I knew. It took me aback as I thought everything was fine under his rule. Was not the case. There was widespread opposition to some of his policies and to the brutality under his tenure, which he himself was apparently not aware.