Re: [OT}The Shah of Iran was: Mixed combat units

At 8:00 AM +0100 10/29/02, K.H.Ranitzsch wrote:
>Everybody please pardon for picking up an off-topic subject...
>
>Ryan paints an extremely optimistic view of the Shah of Iran's rule.
It's
>equally, if not more, plausible, to draw quite a different picture.

Karl, go back about 40-60 more years before the time you are thinking 
about (the Shah's father and Grandfather). Jews had status in the 
society that wasn't 2nd class. They were accepted and encouraged. The 
King and ruling class saw jewish bankers and other family run 
businesses as a good thing and not a problem for their society.

>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Ryan M Gill" <rmgill@mindspring.com>
>>  I have to wonder given that Iran went through a golden age earlier
last
>century where
>>  they had an extremely egalitarian form.
>
>Maybe egalitarian in terms of (official) gender relations. Hardly in
terms
>of political or economic equality.
>
>>  Sadly this all went away with  the rise of the religious state. A
strong
>and just king was required
>>  to have such a culture of open-ness.
>
>Pardon me, but this reads like a tale from the Arabian nights. A few
things
>to consider:

No. Its sometimes how things work out with a strong monarch. It's not 
by any means a given. However, the Mobocracy that followed the Shah 
and the Theocracy that immediately followed that wasn't any kind of 
improvement.

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