on january 21st, 1977, mahmoud jafaran, the head of rastokhis or resurrection party, said imperialismns shah worshippers. پرست و میهن دوستی هستند. unrest during the shah's regime focused a number of broad factors. i mean, first and foremost, the shah was a dictator. uh, there was not really any sharing of power after the mosadek era with anybody else. the sha uh kept all power for himself. any trappings of democracy that existed, like elections or political parties or anything, independent newspapers, were just a sham. it was iran was a dictatorship under the shah. it was not highly repressive until the 1970s. i would say it was more like moderately repressive in the in the 50s and 60s. in the 1970s it became highly repressive. و خود همین نبودن دولت در مقابل مردم و حائل نبودن. بین مقام سلطنت و مردم نتیجهش این شده که الان تمام این نارضایی ها متوجه شده به شخص اول مملکت و حالا که به عقیده من مسئولیت نباید به این شکل جدوه می کرد و این آقایون بالاخره مسئول هستن علیای حال در مقابل مردم مطابق قانون اساسی سلب مسئولیت نمیشه ولا اینکه اعلیحضرت اینها مسئولن در مقابل مردم من مملکت مطابق قانون. on

on january 21st, 1977, mahmoud jafaran, the head of rastahiz or resurrection party, said, "imperialism unrest during the shah's regime focused a number of broad factors, i mean first and foremost the shah was a dictator, there was not really any sharing of power after the mosadek era with anybody else, the shah kept. all power for himself, any trappings of democracy that existed, like elections or political parties or anything or independent newspapers were just a sham. it was iran was a dictatorship under the shah. it was not highly repressive until the 1970s. i would say it was more like moderately repressive in in the 50s and 60s. in the 1970s it became highly repressive. مقابل مردم و حائل نبودن بین مقام سلطنت و مردم نتیجهش این شده که الان تمام این نارضایی ها متوجه شده به شخص اول مملکت و حالا که به عقیده من مسئولیت نباید به این شکل جلوه می کرد و این آقایون بالاخره مسئول هستن علیای حال در مقابل مردم مطابق قانون اساسی سلب مسائل نمیشه ولا اینکه اعلیحضرت اینها مسئولن در مقابل مردم مملکت مطابق قانون. on february 3rd, 1977, 66 political prisoners were released from assas prison, all of th

mahmoud jafaran, the vice president of rastahi's party, who was once involved in communist activitiessn't make any difference to be leftist or rightest if you're going to be disloyal to your country. shah seemed to be reasonably in control, he had started new political system there called the rastiz or resurgence. party, the idea was you have one party, but different views could be expressed in the party. the revolution was still in its early stages and the authorities attacked religious and secular opponents on every occasion, but taking down the opposition groups got the regime really in trouble. show was immensely unpopular within the iranian uh within iran uh he was sick he was dying of cancer he wasn't at the end of he didn't have perhaps all his faculties the way he governed was flaught with everything centralized control so if anything happened to him the government was paralyzed to do anything uh i think i think he was he had serious problems no matter what happened his his son was uh was in no shape to take over after. him, nor did the iranian people really want that, i think