Decadence and Downfall: The World's Most Expensive Party
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 7 ต.ค. 2023
- In 1971, the Shah of Iran, the self-proclaimed 'king of kings', celebrated 2,500 years of the Persian monarchy by throwing the greatest party in history.
Money was no object - a lavish tent city, using 37km of silk, was erected in a specially created oasis. The world's top restaurant at the time, Maxim's, closed its doors for two weeks to cater the event, a five-course banquet served to over sixty of the world's kings, queens and presidents, and washed down with some of the rarest wines known to man. Over a decadent five-day period, guests were treated to a pageant of thousands of soldiers dressed in ancient Persian costume, a 'son et lumiere' at the foot of Darius the Great's temple, and the opening of the Azadi Tower in Tehran, designed to honour the Shah himself.
Every party leaves a few hangovers. This one left a country reeling, never to recover. It crystallised the opposition, led by the Ayatollah Khomeini. More than any other event, this party marked the break between the king of kings and the people of Iran he reigned over. - บันเทิง
whoever wrote these subtitles is taking way too much creative liberty
We all wait for your version.
@@stew01456no we all don't
Yes, the subtitles are very creative, i approve this message.
Ikr? 😂
Oh I see it's the deaf who create rumors!
We had quite a few iranian students in Germany. They thought the monarchy was obsolete and repressive. One day they had to go home 1973. 6 years later they lived under a religious dictatorship.
6 years and the country was still adapting to kick out the corrupt western governments and their corrupt culture. Anyone from germany should know how corrupt the entire west really was back then. And it's worse now. They have honest elections in iran, a president and a parliament, and in the west you are controlled and punished for violating the political correctness imposed by their governments. the only real difference is that Iran upholds cultural and social values that protect the society instead of destroying it.
The shah did arrest thousands and unalived thousands of people, so he was repressive. He forced lobotomies on any opposition that was an intellectual. Torturing anybody he suspected. Not including spending hundreds of million dollars on a party while people were starving. I’m just now learning Iranian history and the shah was not a saint nor did he have a democracy. He ran a brutal dictatorship
Same in America.
America? Lies
@@leonorhernandez7079 Everybody lies -> Toni: "I didn't steal the chips !"
Ras-Putin: "I did not kill Prigoschin, Nawalny, etc.! SEE the difference !
I was born and raised in Iran and I was 9 years old back then. I remember watching the marching of the armies through the centuries and I was mesmerized. For me. It was a lesson in the history of my own country.
As soon as someone claims that he is called by god, the downfall begins. The arrogance, the delusion, the violence, the psychopathy, the narcissism, the grifting.
But what have you learned?
@@livinglife4835 I am not into politics. I liked reading history back then and I still do. It is amusing for me to imagine what life might have been like during certain historical periods. You realize that the Persian nation has written history that is as old as 2500 years ago. It is hard to find out what armies looked like back then, what music was being played when soldiers were getting ready for battle or marching, etc. So a lot of research went into exploring what the Persian armies looked like through centuries. Associating those images on TV with what I had read or would be reading in my school books was a visual learning experience--in my humble opinion. Things such as the arms that were used, the ships, the music that was being played, grooming fashion, clothing fashion, the army salute, the way arm were being held---everything just brought it together for me. The Achaemenid Dynasty was specially celebrated at that time. The whole parade and the celebrations take place in Persepolis and the surrounding area. Even watching the parade now--on TH-cam--, makes me realize that a lot of research went into getting ready for this parade; down to the music that was being played during battles. You realize that during its history, Persian got invaded 3 times by different nations. Each invasion lasting centuries and many of the historical artifacts were destroyed during these invasions. FYI..... Greek invasion, Mongolian invasion and the Arab Invasion. Anyway, if you notice, the last group that marches in the parade is the Iranian women in the armed forces. Well....this is just my perspective--someone who likes reading Persian history. Have a good day!
i agree, but it wasnt the shah who thought this. it was europeans throughout history. @@helmutschillinger3140
GOD is good but people are evil and vile . If one person believed in GOD would that person do what GOD does ! If a king believe in GOD ! Would that King will do what GOD would do ? Feel the poor , share his wealth . Cloth his people , make cover for his people . Say Truth to his people . The Kings people is his children . Not his slave . Cotraband
I was in Iran in 1975. I was just a young 21. There was such political tension in the air..i was basically oblivious. The coup was brewing. I was told, "do not say anything about the shah...people go missing & weeks later show back up only a shadow of what they once were...literally the victim of frontal lobotomies. Parts of their brains removed... walking vegetables. My head & mind were too young to understand I was in the experience of a lifetime, consequently, my experience was almost wasted on me...except for the fragments of my memories I can now pull up & connect dots & relive with this perspective. I will tell you I literally KISSED THE GROUND when we arrived back in NY. It's a shame what this radical revolution had done to this country. The people are the most lovely, giving, generous, with such decorum...& They loved the freedom... women with educations, etc. Very sad. As a guest in this country, they literally treated me like ROYALTY...preferring to feed me while denying themselves food. THAT part of my experience I will NEVER forget...the graciousness of the people.
That is very interesting. Lobotomies had been a popular remedy in the US for decades for controling "unruly" people. I understand that even president JFK had a sister who was lobotomised.
@@hensonlaura I know he had a sister institutionalized. I may remember something about that...now that you mention it. Iran was very dangerous back then...but I was immersed in the locals who protected me. My POV certainly wasn't that of a tourist. I had never seen such poverty...which I guess just confirms this video...people were so , so poor. It was a real culture shock.
@@hensonlaura Lobotomies are actually still done to this day - Thankfully in almost all cases a modified and modern version to treat epileptic seizures, and ideally without causing lasting behavioral changes. However I will add, that the atypical antipsychotic class of drugs we use to this day, was originally marketed as a "chemical lobotomy" before lobotomies fell out of favor. We haven't gotten much further. Electroconvulsive therapy has a good prognosis for some cases, it's often the best we've got - Have a look at a video of such a therapy session and tell me we won't be calling it barbaric in a couple decades.
Chloe.... extraordinary...
@@hensonlaura......correct
It’s just like WEF in Davos why save starving children when you can spend that money partying and telling us how bad we are for not feeding starving children
👍and all our political leaders
A lot of the blame for the Iranian Revolution rests on us in the west too. If we hadn't forced out the elected Prime Minster of Iran, Mosaddegh, and installed the Shah as repressive dictator, then we wouldn't have the mess that we currently do. The worst part is we did it based on the lies that the British made up about Mosaddegh being communist because he wanted to nationalize the Anglo-Persian Oil Company since they were taking all the money out of Iran.
Imagine if the Shah had spent that money over to build infrastructure projects to improve the quality of life of every day Iranians, his family would probably still be running the show. His arrogance and massive ego were his undoing.
Look at Netanyahu. Graft and arrogance because of a colonial power.
Yes. That was my impression of this movie, in a nutshell. Yes - western meddling, oil money, everything.
Although can't say that Mosaddegh would have lasted longer - we don't know, clergy would have opposed him too I guess 🤔
But that part in the movie, when they search for the right place to throw a party and the cities are completely derelict and there's practically no road between them... A fckin disgrace 😱 I'm surprised he wasn't thrown down sooner
This is not the first time the US has made a mess for other countries and itself; the ISIS, the Al Qaeda, current Libya, current Iraq, the list goes on.
@@fereyal yup, if you have oil (or some other hot resource), you're on the radar. Idk if it's a blessing or a curse
He was communist however lol just look at his allies in the government. Also wdym the Shah didnt build infastructure? What a blind bot you are holy cow
I was young but I remember this on the news and in the papers. To millennials, the Near and Middle East must look like one enormous war zone but it has changed so much in the last fifty years. This is a fantastic documentary. There is so much detail here and how on Earth did you get all the radio, video and photos? Sorcery!
This is not a TH-camr, it's probably from cable tv
The modern conflicts of the middle east are direct consequences of the fallout of western intervention and colonization. There is no wonder Arab states refuse to recognize Israel. It's all connected.
A BBC Documentary 2016 "Decandence and Downfall: The World's Most Expensive Party" - Director Hassan Amini.
So the women have Not yet again been emancipated and took out of skilled employment and the men are Not killing their very mothers realistically. Mothers. So its all a lie? Im being serious here when I ask you. From experience in life well there's no smoke without fire but you seem more informed. Help a sister out here and educate me with the truth. Peace be with you.
@@christinedowie2859 "Emancipated" women destroy society. Look at the West. Getting worse and worse every single day. I'm no fan of Islam but they are completely right about women.
Far fewer women in Iran are being raped and sexually degraded that's for sure. And they aren't addicted to wine, antidepressants and cats lol. Things are much better for women in Iran than the West aside from the poverty which is manageable. At least they still have a community that cares about each other.
I knew a woman that had lived in Tehran a couple of years before the fall. Her husband worked from one of the international conglomerates and Katherine was a photo journalist. She said it was an absolutely fascinating city. Her pictures of herself at that time in Tehran were really cool. 😃👍👍
And today?
@@stefanschleps8758 today shes an old lady or dead wherever she decided to live. It sounds like she was a foreigner snd if so likely was forced to leave once the revolution started to expel westerners
Sir, we had ladies walking on streets in Kabul, Afghanistan in 70s.. in midis and mini skirts; they would have stopped if they were being preyed on. But know the society did not prey on them. but know they just want to kill because they can. See the state of governance there today.. Afghanistan actually managed to keep their culture alive all through this.. and understand, not religion, but culture. For an Afghani or Pathan, Culture and decency are pre-conditions to enter into any religious discussion.
@@deborahdean8867 Rubbish, everywhere on the internet you can find how life was before sharia for iranians. they lived peacefully, happily, women wore mini skirts, bikinis, showed off their gorgeous hair. it was sharia that spolied everything for iranians. stop spreading your uninformed drivel.
unfortunately the monarchy made politics only for the rich. They had ignored the poor majority of the population or . There were also many political prisoners. As soon as someone demanded social reforms, they were in danger of being imprisoned and tortured. The anger built up there and the islamists had an easy game because of such a divided society.
Barbara didn't have it right back then either, must be a flaw in her education. Her description of a constitutional monarchy could not be more wrong. What she described was an absolute monarchy. The View carries on in that established tradition faithfully.
Those freedom hating women are vicious, spiteful bullies!
Thanks, I caught that and wondered, "What the hay?"
Thanks, I caught that and wondered, "What the hay?"
This is explained in the video at 14:33
Officially it was a constitutional monarchy (as written in Iran's constitution) but was executed as absolute monarchy.
In 1952, 1953 the PM at the time wanted to implement the constitution and the Shah had to leave the country. The PM was then overthrown in a coup (with involvement of UK and US) and the Shah kept his absolute power.
Barbara was very likely referring to the written constitution and not to the actual type of government.
Absolute monarchies normal don't have parlament and elections. This is similar to all current countries that have defacto dictatorship but are officially democracies, like China, Russia, Turkey, ...
Barbara does not give a definition of a constitutional monarchy. She describes how Shah Mohammed Reza rules. Shah Reza was the last king of Iran. Barbara is right: by law, Iran was a constitutional monarchy, in reality however the shah exercised his powers as if he was an absolute monarch. The revolution in Iran in 1979 put the monarchy to an end, and what happened after that we all know.
One of my good friends in Manhattan was a refugee from Tehran. My friend was an architect (and gay). His father had been an agent of the Shah's secret police, SAVAK. His mother was an antique dealer, who dealt with expensive original Persian carpets. When she fled Iran, she settled down in Washington, DC. My friend was quite a lovely educated and gentle person. He didn't have contact with his father, whom he despised. I hope the refugees of the Islamic Revolution have the opportunity to see their homeland again before they die.
It's a nightmare all of the things that have happened to Iran, Iraq, Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, and Libya over the course of my lifetime. My generation still recalls when Beirut was the Riviera of the Middle East.
Would love to hear his story
t's a nightmare all of the things that have happened to Iran, Iraq, Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, and Libya - and still happening to Russia right now. People are never learnig from the past...
Also, Lebanon had excellent universities ( obviously Christian ) & the mohamadians sent their kids to them because there was nothing in comparison in Mohamadian countries
Its a damn shame that the CIA went in to topple the democratically elected president of Iran before they installed the Shah ...
it's this kind of blinkered thinking that caused the west to be surprised at what happened and has caused eestern missteps throughout the world until today. consider Iraq, consider Afghanistan. n still America n Americans hv a delusional idea of what things 'should be'.
you should hv used the time since your youth to educate yourself about th American destruction of iranian and all manner of mid east n global democratic growth.
do you think the iranian state since the revolution without the support of their people?
It's so sad seeing the women walking around freely, having no idea that soon they'll be forced to cover themselves and forbidden from leaving their house unless accompanied by a male.
Yah, talk about oppression the Ayatollahs are super fucked up. They're also supporting Terrorists like Hamas and stealing from the people. At least there was some freedom under the Shah.
It better suits their purpose to tell women to stay inside and cover themselves, than to tell men to not rape or abuse women and treat them with respect.
@@melissarmt7330 Fortunately, it's not an either or situation.
@@melissarmt7330 Their leaders don't even care if men stop raping and abusing. The men there see it as their right. Their mindset is beyond disgusting.
You need to up your meds 😂
I passed through Iran in 73 while the Shah was still in control. It was a fairly normal happy country but after the Shah left and the ayatollahs took over the whole place turned to rubbish.
I met a few families of Jewish people who had to leave Iran when the Ayatollahs took over Iran. When the Shah was there he was good for al religions.The Shah lived in opulence and forgot the poor people. That was his big mistake. That's what led people to go back to basics and Religious Fundamentalism. Since the Ayatollahs took over, women lost rights and their politics are nuts.
And nothing for the people has changed, they are still oppressed
No more than the US , Canada or Europe. Not for the little guy. The US and Europe have allowed tyrants to rule who have neither religion or cultural heritage
Leo la historia de las dinastías de Afghanistán, algo distinto pero muy parecido, al final están en mano a los talebanes estremista islámicos, igual que Irán a los ayatollah
As well as Afghanistan ending history
from kingdom to talebans
@@margaritaresta6390 Taliban is different they're not shia
Whens the last time you were in Iran?
My Iranian Dentist was sitting in one of her college classes when Islamic revolutionaries came in, told them to leave and never return. I'm glad her family got outta there.
This documentary shows that the city of Shiraz was a pour city that was just desert which is not true at all. Due to its major historical importance it has always been a prosperous city with wealth in it. Also, the documentary does not show the prosper the party brought to iran afterwards. Although the part costed immensely, it resulted beneficial for the country. Due to the party’s publicity many people from around the world wanted to go to visit iran in the following year, which it then brought a lot more money to the country that not only it cancelled the cost of the part but also a lot more. Another fact that needs to be taken with consideration is the fact that, women had a lot more freedom within the country then a lot of other western countries at the time.
Абсолютно з вамі згідна. Коли ще таке було, зібрати таку кількість перших осіб у дружній атмосфері? І чи зможе Іран зробити це ще колись?
Thank you for bringing kbowlege to this thread.
In an interview with one of the guests she made a comment that the only reason they accepted the invitation was because of the name of a famous chef invited to do the cooking . At that time Iran and Iranians were very poor while they sipped $500 bottles of wine the rest of us couldn’t make the ends meet .
@@jinusrafezadeh2494. As it is in the UK. There is no need for poverty and suffering if wealth were distributed more evenly. That will never be the case though!
Great documentary; so much to take in visually, and very nicely paced.
Khomanni was in exile in france before the islamic reveloution. Khomanni made a promise not to make things religious to other oppoisition groups, therefore gaining thier support. He immediatly reniged.
Of course he did- holding the reign of Iran's religious fanatics gave and allowed Khomenei's party to take and hold power indefinitely. He was a canny Politician above all things.
Köszönöm a feltöltést! Hatalmas történelmet osztottál meg velem!..👍
This self-proclaimed King lost power because he distanced himself too much from the People, another problem was that he was soft, he grew up with a spoonful of gold, WHILE the people were starving. 😮
Funny how people almost always believe what they were taught to when they were growing up, lol. You & I included.
Every king have to be rich, to be accepted by people as a king. It's logical.
@@hensonlaurahumans beings are like babies, expecting Santa Klauss every year 😅
😢😢
Most of the rich educated Iranians came to settle in southern California before the fall. They are the largest group of Iranians outside of Iran.
Traitors to their nation who sell their souls to America always flee to America afterwards. It's standard operating procedure.
Astonishingly good documenting of the last days of the Shah's Iran - informative, chilling in parts, the 'scales drop from our eyes'. Who would've thought the arrogance, the dismissal of the powerless, the very decadence of the regime would herald the rise and still destructive history of the fundamentalists..!
Religion has got to go. Particularly the Abrahamic ones which support extreme hierarchical thinking, narcissism, loss of one's critical thinking skills, fear of others, and hate. Aren't those the biggest problems with humanity right now?
@@anacom4238the crusades killed too. Look at what the Zionists are doing right now! They appropriate religion but many are indeed atheist, opposed by the peaceful, Orthodox Jews.
Not surprising at all....that's how the Khoumeini took advantage of the situation. Believe me, we've seen this over and over again, by the ....nefarious...jumping in to take over!!!
I think a lot of people would have seen this coming
@@clemdane I was speaking rhetorically. 🙄
(Not everything you read is to be taken literally. )
Shame he was replaced by an infinitely worse system.
Yes he was, but not shame how bad for him, he was the author of his own demise.
Yes I a gree with you Iran in the time of shah was better than now ,there is a big difference !
It’s a bigger shame that the US and UK toppled the democracy. The shah would have been a figurehead. We wanted the oil.
@@rebeccaweil1....și Franța....America....nu mai juca cum au dorit occidentali ......Iranul ar fi fost o Persie modernă fără fanatism religios 😮
@@rebeccaweil1absolutely right!!
Thank you very much for posting this documentary. I enjoyed watching it , and I also learned something important from it. That is, I think, high praise.
Seemed to be more a celebration of French culture than Persian.
French is the common language in Switzerland. The Shah was educated in Switzerland and probably France as well. So French influence is strong in the culture at that time.
A very interesting documentary that we just watched in full. Thank you for publishing it.
The sight of so many monarchs is shockingly indecent!
I agree.
Yeah
I can never finish this. As a non-Iranian, but still a human being, it breaks my heart. When watching a modern disaster movie, things like this make me root for the comet, not earth or humans.
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@@zolyhaly894dog
The Shah and Ceausescu were *such* little fellas...
thats why they got sacked! you cant rule a country that show the rest of the world that you are not even in huge national debt, but you are thriving. this is not allowed by the powers that were. but of course you can tell what story you want and have the power to twist truth for your own gain. @@jennysaranac4454
@@jennysaranac4454so was Napoleon 😊
Thank you for this excellent documentary.
It is not excellent,the words are written over and you cannot follow 😡👎👎👎👎👎
Pride goeth before the fall...
I attended the US Navy's Fleet Anti-Submarine Warfare Training Center, San Diego in the Summer of 1977. The Navy was sharing it's ASW A-School training with Iranian Navy Sailors during the time of the Shah. The Iranian students were young and had plenty of money, as witnessed by all there. Apparently, they were especially interested in American muscle cars, specifically the Pontiac Trans Am. They scooped them up like crazy, and there were always several parked in the base parking area. Before leaving for home, the Iranians shipped their Trans Ams home to Iran. I often wondered about these cars. Where are they now? Many of the Shah's military left after the fall of the Monarchy. The US Navy now had a different task of supporting an attempt to free hostages from the US Embassy in Iran. We were on station in a carrier task force at the Gulf of Oman, and many thought war was certain. When Ronald Reagan became President, the hostages were promptly released. General Oliver North was questioned later by US Lawmakers about his part in brokering a weapons deal with the Contras and the Islamic Republic of Iran. North was never convicted of any charges, and President Reagan came out clean. I wonder about this...
I always wonder about that Iran contra affair situation too… then, on top of that, during the Reagan admin, we got the 1986 childhood vaccine injury act, that was clearly the last puzzle piece that enabled the pharmas to commit endless Nuremberg violations and indoctrinate the worlds population into cooperating with the lies of the current tyranny we are facing… we’ve got a lot of undoing that must be done.
Smokey and the Bandit was released in 1977. Being how Burt Reynolds with his mustache appeared Persian, it's no coincidence those Iranian students wanted their own Bandit exuding loud American V8 bravado.
Also, Oliver North wasn't a General. He was a Lietenant Colonel (O-5). He was middle management tasked to do a job on a need-to-know basis. He was set up as the fall guy with plenty of plausible deniability between him and Reagan. You working in the US Navy with Top Secret information about the adversary and allied submarine capabilities know how that goes.
North WAS convicted of three felonies (after being indicted on 16 felony counts). The following were copied and pasted from Wikipedia ...
His three felony convictions were accepting an illegal gratuity, aiding and abetting in the obstruction of a congressional inquiry, and ordering the destruction of documents through his secretary, Fawn Hall. He was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Gerhard Gesell on July 5, 1989, to a three-year suspended prison term, two years probation, $150,000 in fines, and 1,200 hours of community service. North performed some of his community service within Potomac Gardens, a public housing project in southeast Washington, DC. However, with the help of the American Civil Liberties Union, North appealed his conviction to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. On July 20, 1990, the D.C. Circuit vacated North's convictions on the ground that witnesses in his trial might have been impermissibly affected by his immunized congressional testimony. The individual members of the prosecution team had isolated themselves from news reports and discussion of North's testimony, and while the defense could show no specific instance in which North's congressional testimony was used in his trial, the Court of Appeals ruled that the trial judge had made an insufficient examination of the issue. Consequently, North's convictions were reversed. After further hearings on the immunity issue, Judge Gesell dismissed all charges against North on September 16, 1991.
No you are not wondering..and those cars were the scales on the eyes of Iran..and our lure of what we told them democracy was.
interesting. that is the same now, when Anthony Bourdain visited Iran for one of his Food Travel Shows, there were young men showing off their classic American muscle cars. RIP Anthony. I am sure you can find the Episode with Anthony Bourdain, you might even see one of those Trans Ams in it.
In '77 I wanted a Trans Am too, because I saw Smokey and the Bandit and wanted a badass car that could jump over bridges that were destroyed.
How sad for the Iranian people. I remember this history because I had family living there at the time. Women had rights and were encouraged to go to university. Pity the shah was blinded by his own vanity to do something for the poor. But then we have to ask, are the Iranians, especially women, better off now? God have mercy on them. Thank you for this excellent documentary!!
I suppose it's a matter of perspective. I'm guessing that some people don't view the complete breakdown of morals, modesty, the traditional family and gender roles as progress. I'm sure that many decent people over there look upon the west in absolute horror, or even with pity, as they watch our society degrade into some sort of horrific clown show, cheering for filthy parades of near naked perverts in the streets, forcing the "superior virtues" of unnatural carnal practices upon anyone we encounter...even our own children! Depending on one's perspective, a debate on where the greater societal illness resides would not be unfounded.
Sadly in life nothing is perfect. I have met people who fled, to this day , 2023, they are still afraid, talk with people there, see property they lost. I see Iran today, I see a world of hate, women have no life. I am unsettled by this way of life in the USA. I know every female covered in black, would love an education, dressed as they wished, unfortunately I do not know any, thou, no choice of my own. It is theirs, I believe for all if you don’t want to an American, speak English , u must leave. If my grandfather so could u . My grandmother did not, but I hope I brought her so love.
@@mtnvortexyou are speaking as a man. Good, bad, the USA is still the best place on earth, or u wouldn’t be here!
In the 1950s, the USA toppled the democratically elected Iranian leader and installed the shah, which led to this, which led to Khomeini, and the rest is history.
What do you mean the Shah was blinded by his own vanity to help the poor? Why pity him for helping the poor?
Being European and living now in India, surrounded by some very poor people who cannot afford a pair of shoes, I can't imagine how poor people must have felt back then.
I live in India, an Indian. Are you here for poverty tourism? Don't mind me, i don't want to sound rude, just curious.
@@existentialbaby not at all. "Poverty tourism"! What sort of weird concept is that! I live in Mumbai surrounded by very poor, as well as by one of the richest people on the planet, extremely affluent people, who might very well be practising "poverty tourism" as you call it, when they come out of their town palaces, (they have no clue about what's happening outside their super duper rich people's life btw).
But one cannot deny that there are in India extremely rich people, as well as a very large amount of extremely poor people, a level of poverty I had never been exposed to before back in my country. When I hear stories of my maids coming from say UP or Bihar villages, you really get to understand how they feel. I am very close to my maid and she has been sharing with me a lot of fun and much less fun aspects of her life as well. Life is tough in Indian remote villages, everyone knows it. And when these people seek a better life in Indian metrocities, they have to go through a lot too.
@irenedhakde4692 Thank you for sharing your experiences. Like i told you, I'm indian and i come from UP. I am surrounded by poverty from every direction. I know what you're talking about. The economic development in india has been very extremely disproportionate. Mumbai is a glaring specimen of flagrant inequality. It's shameful.
@@existentialbaby I totally agree with you.
Great way to really enrage people.
Imagine if it would have been celebrated as a national celebration for all, instead of a excessive personal event. A celebration of the people, not the shah.
Exactly what I needed to know for today. Thank you so much
They even chilled the outside air. A total ego dream. And then a complete disaster.
That is the language that common people in that part of the world understand: br either holy or rich. Otherwise peoole will percieve as week.
It is a common mistake in the anticapitalist Weat ti think that rich people so whatever they want.
Now one of my favorite documentaries, it felt like an ARTE documentary.
I went to an all girls highschool. We had rich ex pat Iranian Girls attending the school. I always felt sorry for them They didn't want to go back to Iran and marry their first cousins when they were through with their studies. 😮😮😮
Stop implying their brain dead and inbred . The intelligent young people of today, a product of their current government, are in Iran, not the US or Europe
Brilliant documentary. Should be required viewing in all 8th grade classrooms. I was 17 when this party occurred. Never heard about it. When the Shah fled the country in 1979, I had no understanding why. Now 50 years later - I do. Not only was this the ultimate party, but it was the ultimate Faux Pas. The title of this piece described it perfectly. I saw a $650 million price tag for this event. In 2023 dollars that is close to $5 billion dollars!!! That's an inconscionable amount of money. No wonder there was such religious backlash - which the western world ended up paying so dearly for!
It's insane for a party yeah. Remember though that billions today are worth a lot less. For additional context, the party was about the entire GDP of the US Virgin Islands today, and the 2020 Olympics cost roughly 3 times as much. When I hear that it doesn't seem quite as ludicrous. I think we compare any dollar value with an "-illion" at the end of it with our own incomes which isn't quite rational as everything at that level sounds non-sensically priced. And Iran being 5x the size of Great Britain! Wow imagine how different things might have been if the extremist theocrats hadn't taken power. Who knows what Iran might be like today - maybe the London of the Middle East.
@@johnjingleheimersmith9259that's why the CIA installed them.
@@maxwellblackwell5045 What is why? To create a London of the Middle East? I was pretty sure it was all American interests. The usefulness of the Shah as a shield against communism, the the threat of Iran-Soviet alliance. and threat of USSR control over oil.
Ya’ll remember the role Canada had in ‘79 with the hostages??
Where the hell did you get that ridiculous figure from? My father was high up in the government and the minister of finance was a close friend of his. $23 million was what they spent on the event. In 1974 Iran paid Grumman just short of $1.00 billion for the F14 deal, which included 80 F14 A, over 250 AIM 54 missiles, spares, training of technicians, over 200 Iranian pilots and weapons officers, shelters to house the F14s, etc etc. And you, write that they spent $650 million to host a celebration ? All these contrived lies were propagated by the Islamists, and the Communists whose terrorists were assassinating US and Iranian personnel on the direct orders from the KGB. Learn about the country and its politics before making ill informed comments.
I lived at that time, and I saw all that on TV. I remember the arrival of Khomeini to Iran. The world never was the same peaceful place again.
And never has been since, it's so sad. Such a wonderful country held in the grip of the religious police. It can't last forever though
@@rexguy7823 It is also sad that the democratically elected government of Iran was overthrown in 1951 in a coup organized by the CIA.
@@rexguy7823 at least they are fighting against our zionist overlords
Iran ( under a socialist revolution ) was and is nothing but a satellite of Russia. Once the left hand of the SOVIET UNION and today, a weapon supplier for Vladimir Putin.@@awood817
@@awood817 And here is a bigot for you.
Such an amazing documentary
What a fantastic record of the great gathering of "royal" bloodsuckers
I’d say things got worse after the Shah
Turn off cc, it has built in translation subs
I remember well the Shah's downfall but had never heard of the party. What an incredible story!
What's the line..paraphrased...
.... Ozymandias, king of kings
Look on my works ye mighty, and despair.
That was an amazing documentary! Thank you for your work! 🙏❤
I don't think they make these, just posting other people's work.
The richness of the country is defined not how royalty and their close one and their surrounding live and where they escape with money to continue their lives but if they have real middle class and how regular people live and if these regular people have opportunities in life.
Это так но история доказывает правоту слов из Библии-Екклезиаст 8:9
«Я видел всё это и размышлял обо всём, что делается под солнцем. Во все времена человек господствует над человеком ему во вред»
Человечество нуждается в правлении своего Создателья. Только небесное правительство может утоновить мир,порядок,справедливость,международное братство,востанавление экологии ,устранение больезней а также дружбу между человечеством и животным миром.
Читайте пожалуйста Библия -Даниил 2:44
«В дни тех царей Бог небес установит царство, которое никогда не будет уничтожено или передано другому народу. Это царство разрушит все те царства и положит им конец, и только оно будет существовать вечно»
Также читайте в Библия-Исайя 11 главу а также Откровение 21:3-5.
This is a good perspective. I feel like the middle class in the US is becoming less and less.
Funny how this was allegedly about celebrating 2.500 of history, tradition and culture of one of the greatest empires the world had ever seen, and they chose French cuisine to celebrate it...and not only that, but French haute-cuisine that doesn't even represent the overall French culture. This choice alone proves that this enormity was about showing off wealth, not national pride. Champagne and Provencal herbs to celebrate Persian culture, what a joke. Even Cyrus the Great was probably whatthefucking in his grave.
can you please provide me a list of Ancient Persian cuisine from 2500 years ago?
If by that you are mocking my Cyrus the Great grave-tossing image, it is generally assumed in such metaphors that the tormented deceased has knowledge of everything that happened since his demise, including the obvious present. So it can include everything that happened in 2.500 years, not necessarily how it was when he died.@@MiladJP
It's only normal for those who can afford the best to get the best; they wouldn't serve asses milk & honeyed locusts, haha.
By best you mean - expensive, there is no BEST here. And great job insulting Persians with those examples. @@hensonlaura
I prefer Locust ass and honeyed milk. @@hensonlaura
Incredible historical footage.
Well done! Thank you for posting!
Wow, that was profound! Enjoyed it very much.
EPIC DOCUMENTARY!
How are the subtitles so different to the actual speech. Its like a teenager rewriting a chatgpt essay.
Is the Google translator 😅😅or algorithm default
Iran has an amazing history, full of brilliant and honestly beautiful people. It's a truly incredible country. I almost cry every time I hear whats going on there now.
advanced people historically too sad how it is now
Iran dude said they used the Marxists to take over and get public backing, afterwards the leaders got rid of the Marxists.
😂😂😂 don't know much about their hsitory then, they're humans like everyone else.
As an Iranian myself, I can only confirm this and thank you. Our history is indeed amazing, and yet so sad. It's basically a tragedy. And what makes it more tragic is that the both time my country lost its glory were due to Islam. The first one when Arabs invaded our great empire and forced Islam to us, and the second time when the Islamic Revolution happened and ever since then we are living in darkness. The only good thing about this history probably is that we've finally learned from our mistakes: Never again will people of Iran trust Muslims and their sweet lies.
Iran invented Algebra to start with. A lot of fundamental stuff to the success of our entire species came out of there that we all take for granted today. It's 5,000 + years old. They call it the "Cradle of Civilization" for a reason; civilization was born in Iran. That's why when a single artifact from ancient Iran/Persia is destroyed, the whole human race is poorer and knows less about our past.
Say what you will, after 20 years in the can, Phil Letardo sure knows how to hold a coming home party.
Amazing quality, available for free.
Very lucky, thank you
Where is Iran now, what can you say about the decadence of current leaders, compare the regular people from documentary with people on the streets today...especially women, compare their lifestyle, income, freedom ....
Probably you would never understand or maybe you will but Persia is a secular society and culture. Globalization will never succeed in some regions of the world. The Shah's attempt was furious and didn't take into consideration the fact that society can't be changed so dramatically so fast without violent backlash. He was a foul regarding how he handled with Ayatollah Komenei from the start.
Mossadegh was best. He would have modernized without cruelty like the current mess. But not been decadent & entitled like this Shah
Wherever in the world you find a muslim theocracy in power, you find grinding poverty, brutal oppression, especially of women, and corruption. This cost the Iranian people much more than that party did.
Iran went backwards because of the coup which was staged by the CIA. Google it. It's all public knowledge.
@@K1lostreamThe Muslim theocracy only took power after the CIA staged a coup against Iran. Google "1953 coup iran" and spend some time reading.
Complex issues.
Thanks for posting.
That was very homely to watch. I wish you both a happy Christmas ❤
I was friends with the daughter of the Shah’s ambassador to the US in my late teens. They had recently fled Iran permanently at the time we met. She had lived a life a decadence up to that point.
Yeah sure 😂that's funny
@@petermccavington8232 Actually it wasn’t all that funny. They fled for their lives and had prices on their heads due to her father’s position within the Shahs government. Many people wanted her father dead. Not a lot to laugh about from a teenagers point of view.
I determine what's funny. Only myself. Nobody else!!
@@bizygirl1
Go to city and find it to be a crumbling ruin.
Choice A: spend untold millions on repairing city and roads,
Choice B: Spend untold millions on a tent party in some uninhabited ruins.
They went for B. Looks like they didn't even stimulate the local economy since they bought everything from Europe.
жесть, ...какая вопиющая глупость и оторванность от народа! вот что значит - бездумно копировать запад.
It looked like the ashtrays were local
If they had sourced from Iran, it would have been primitive indeed, by the standards of the global elite.
@@philzerkel3486look at 27:00 there was clearly people
You judge a rather different culture from the standpoint of your own. One has the right to do that, of course, but only after you learn SOMERGING about that culture. This video gave you no such knowledge . It is a hit peace against the Shah and produced for voyerlurs, people who like to take a peak at thr life of the "rich and famous" without bothering to learn anything about those lives. What do such people conclude? That which they always belived: rich people have no responsibilities and do no good for society. The fact that this is false does not matter. Oh, how low have English - speaking people have fallen: 800 years ago they have wrestled Magna Carta from the Kung, and today they spew socialist propaganda ofvthe most stupid kind without even realizing it.
The Shah's granddaughter lives in the city where I live and I used to do the pest control at her, what can only be called, a palace. That was 20 yrs ago. She was/prob still a tough, affluential woman but, she and I connected pretty good and we got a lot of business from her. The hand-painted portraits of the shah and her and the family are exquisite and it's pretty cool that I'm one of very few outsiders, who have actually seen them...
Edit: so one of the portraits in the home, I was talking about is, the Shah wearing that crown and that lavish robe, that is shown, in the very beginning of this film
That's so cool 👍
@@optimusprinceps3526 I've never seen wealth like that, in this country.... when the Shah and a very small Entourage of family, fled the Persian kingdom, when the Ayatollah Komini (sp) took power, they brought a lot of money with them. The Shah was treated here at a military Hospital in the city where I live, for cancer, where he, subsequently died later on... She(granddaughter) was and probably still is, a portrait of Elegance, in real-time...
Portleri merak ettim ,siz görmüşsünüz şanslısınız ..
Did you get a sense for the size/quality of the staff (or "help")?
The Shah's son (former crown prince) and his family live in CONNECTICUT! I think he's an American Citizen now! We should put him back on the throne!
Excellent documentary!
The fact that so much royalty showed up shows the greed at the foundation of all monarchy. They don't care about a country misappropriating money which makes their people suffer, they just want to be at any and every extravagant event where they get to wear their crown.
its a big club and we aint in it
@@desire4liberation Thank goodness for that. Bunch of inbred weirdos.
@@desire4liberation ever wonder why urban golf courses are historically preserved while 100 yearold neighborhoods get knocked down for some new stadium nobody needs, sacrifice everything so some rich old white dude can be older and richer
It had nothing to do with partying. It's called making connections. Politically and financially this party was huge
@@johncollins211 Parting is also a big part of the lifestyle for many of them.
Fascinating! Thank you for this excellent historical documentary
When the Shah fled into exile, my education in world history was so inadequate that I was mystified.
A grand video, thanks for showing us many facets of Iran.
Looks like this happened the year I was born. Very interesting; thank you! I really appreciated the way they tied the event into the historical context so can learn more about the history of this region and how it impacted where we are today.
That we and France helped and now seeing the consequences!
Exactly what happened in Qatar a year ago...
Organizing and preparing for the world football cup took almost 4 years and costed Qatar more than 220 billion dollars while all the revenue was about 20 billion
I believe Qatar is run very well, so why would the people revolt
Qatar has rich citizens and slaves, so there won't a revolt in the near future.
@@tiefensucht Qatar's money is only used for the Qatar citizen. And they have just about free everything.
Qatar guest the Hamas leaders of Palestinian terrorism
@@tiefensuchtLes qataris ne sont pas des esclaves au contraire. Ce sont plutôt les travailleurs migrants ,notamment ceux provenant d'Asie du Sud qui ont des conditions de vie très difficiles.
A family member went to Iran after the Vietnam war to teach helicopter pilots for Bell. He was promoted to Safety Officer and visited many areas, learning Farsi and making friends.He was careful. When he said he was the Safety Officer it would sometimes startle Iranians because they thought he meant he was Savak. His friends in Tehran told him they were being visited by Khomeini supporters saying Khomeini was coming and to remember them. Unfortunately Bell Helicopter abandoned their employees on their return to the States: My relative was brutally beaten while protecting a company V.P. He had to sue for medical bills, taking years but he was eventually given back pay and medical costs
That's horrible to have found himself in that position. I'm sure he was probably a nice, normal guy, who was just trying to do his job. I'm sure it seemed like a great, well paying opportunity, until he found himself caught in the middle of a larger situation he really didn't create. I can absolutely understand the anger the Iranians had, and it was quite legitimate. I can even understand how, at the time, this poor guy seemed like a proper target for that anger. I mean, there he was...a person(I'm assuming American) who represented the monstrous meddling power who helped facilitate their misery.
On impulse, acting on pure passion, you or I may have seen things the same way if we were in those attacker's shoes. The whole situation just sucks though. That poor guy wasn't the one who made their lives miserable. He just happened to be the most accessible target that represented the enemy to them. Us little people are always the first to suffer the consequences of our awful governments' underhanded actions.
I'm so sorry that your relative was treated that way by an employer with pockets deep enough to have recompensed him 10 fold and not feel it. This kind of hypocrisy is almost always the way with these corporations. Their employees are nothing but cattle to them. The individual sacrifices made by those with a strong work ethic and values are not appreciated or acknowledged. I hope your relative is doing well.
Your relative probably found out the true nature of the dynamics.
capitalism...nothing personal, heh
@@EshafoTT You mean crony capitalism. Who do you think was paying Bell Helicopters? US Government/CIA.
Iranians are remarkable people….may they be free from theological tyranny
Wonderful documentary!
Why are the subtitles so different from what they are saying? Was it translated from English to Persian and back to English again?
That's the Google algorithm, happens the same in all you tube videos😅😅😅😅s
It’s so weird to realize that this is only about 10 years before “Not Without My Daughter.” Iran became unrecognizable under theocratic rule.
Instead of suffering from monarchical repression, people suffer under theocratic oppression. Same tortures, different rationale.
If the US had kept ots greedy hands off of the nation of iran and them jsd not imposed planetary sanctions things could have been much better. Iran isnt a theocracy by the way. They have a parliament, a president. Educate yourself instead of believing everything is controlled media propagandized you with.
Lessons learned - its never good to throw down any monarchy..
Thank you for sharing. 🙏
I am 59 years old and have never even heard or read about this…now it makes sense!!
A documentary I much appreciate. At the time of the events described here, I was living in Paris, and I clearly remember events not mentioned in this video, which show that the downfall of the shah was orchestrated in and by the western powers. Khomeini was guested by the Western powers in France, at Colombey-les-deux-eglises, in the suburb of Paris, and given all the strings to organise and start the overthrow of the shah.
Today, we get the impression that Iran and the western powers are enemies - in fact, they collaborate and draw humanity towards sinister times of totalitarianism and enslavement.
I'm afraid this is very true
True words
Get the impression that they are enemies? Iran's entire "congress" chanting "Death to America" is just a ruse? I agree with much of what you wrote... however to suggest that they are NOT enemies is a bit much...
The English queen had middle eastern genes
@@lukasdoms7483 no, those were Levis from San Francisco...
I remember two IRANIAN guys who used to pop in our ENGLISH RESTAURANT for a bite to eat and they became regular guests and one was named KHAN the other was SHAN brilliant guys as well.I was only 10 yo at the time and they'd go to IRAN for 2 weeks and then back to ENGLAND for 2 weeks and they used to bring me back some awesome stuff from IRAN and one they just disappeared.And I'd love to know where they are now or what happened to them because they we're only young guys around 22-25 yo.And when my mother asked them what they done for a living because theyll clam up and change the subject so my mother always called them spies for a joke and they'd laugh and one thing they had was plenty of money as well.But i do hope there alive and well with a nice family they'd be in there mid 70's now probably grandparents i hope so anyway..
"Khan" is not an iranian name.
@@maram6211
is Vahe an Iranian or Armenian name?
Could be Central Asian ethnicity living in Iran @@maram6211
They might have been great people back 4000 years ago, but now they are not much today.
One of a kind: thought-provoking, humorous, sad, endlessly insightful,
highly relatable, enlightening, shocking, spine chilling - all at once.
It seems 'in search of lost time' and revealing a crass clique. 💫🌜🌠
Such misguided immodesty was bound to court misfortune, especially when the rest of the country was living in poverty... and what happened to all the trees ... after 'the party'???
The trees, most likely, went the way of the sparrows.
Who cares..... lol.... trivial!
With the dust storms God showed the elite in their pomp and arrogance their destiny.
Only later in life have I come to understand the significance "king of kings" language. That is exactly how ancient Mesopotamians, Assyrians, Persians, and similar, frequently described themselves.
In the bible Jesus Christ is called the ONLY king of kings....the shah he is declaring himself to be God...in the bible is prophesied that the anti-christ will show himself to be God....
@@iuliua Why I am even bothering to write this comment is somewhat beyond me, but, chalk it up to frustration...do you not realise the Shah was a Muslim and this kind of reference to a religion (Christianity) that has never whatsoever been prevalant in his country or even his entire region would be absolutely meaningless to him, in the context from which he is speaking? He literally says in the documentary that God is above him.
How so many people can be blind to the existence and validity of thousands of other unrelated cultures around the globe, and the billions of folks who do not operate in the same frame of reference as your own religion is a level of ignorance and navel gazing that still hard for me to fanthom.
At least now a days those who desire to open their mind can travel, and experience the incredible rainbow and diversity of humanity.
I believe this term was used because these were some of the first empires of the region (during an era of city-states) who united, decimated, or otherwise controled the regions many tribal kings and lords. So the leader of the empire was literally a king of kings.
I mean, two and a half MILLENIA of having a kingdom and an empire requires a decent party.
insightful. worth watching.
Iranians are some of the best people I know who unfortunately left Iran at some point, some not able to return, my heart goes out to them as the beautiful culture they are but all have done very well for themselves, I always joke and say that whatever an Iranian touches turns to gold, they have worked so hard and some still suffer the deepest sadness of separation from family yet they succeed. Thank you for this documentary which leaves me yearning to learn more about this ancient civilization and a country I never forget especially in the state of this crazy world.
Could be easily one of the wealthiest and properous countries today. I do not know what brought it down, maybe radical Islam... idk its a mystery to me.
Not at all. It is the false interpretation of Islam. Look at Saudi Arabia, a Islamic fundamentalist country and it is one of the most wealthiest if not the wealthiest Islamic country on earth. Islam has nothing to do with Iran's problems. Unjustified sanctions might be it tough. Forcing women to wear the veil is not acceptable tough, but Saudi Arabia does it also yet it is much more severe in Saudi Arabia. You cannot even enter the city of Meccah if you aren't a Muslim. @@infiniteshoeblack
@@user-th5ui4ib3y It always is, ISLAM = FASCISM
@@user-th5ui4ib3yIt was the Ayatolah. Many Iranians followed the Bahai religion and were persecuted by the Ayatolah Khomeini and they tried to force the Bahais to become Muslim. They refused and were imprisoned and persecuted. Those who were well educated and could afford to, fled en mass and went to live in other countries in the West. I met many of them here in South Africa and Namibia which was called South West Africa at that time. President Reagsn of USA used to speak of the plight of the Bahais in Iran. This same situation is what made the Shah flee just as the Bahais had to flee if they could. Lovely well educated people.
@@coshyno I do not think Saudi Arabia is a good example, they are wealthy because of oil but other than that I do not know of many products or innovations coming from that country tbh. The majority of Islamic countries in Africa and Asia is actually quite poor.
Thank you. Very informative
Very interesting and informative article.
Very right: money and status destroy a weak man or a weak woman too.
In general I can’t think of any government in history who has done a good job for its people and kept a budget !
Can anyone think of one ?
No
In contrast they're
all singing from the same hymn sheat in this *war*
against *us*
Never forgive
&
Never forget
*They* *hate* *us*
💥💉💥💉💥💉💥💉💥💉💥💉💥💉💥💉💥💉+
🙄🔥🏁🤺🤬ts the *lot/Lotte.*
Simply, does not exist any good power government. Only idiots believe that might exist
WOW! So well done!!!
Fascinating stuff !! I Love trying to understand the crossroads of History, Politics and Religion and we don't hear much on Iran and it's historical geopolitical relationships.
Find forensic historian Richard Grove at Grand Theft World. He's got the receipts.
Watch for free online documentary The Greatest Story Never Told
I was 12 years old and I remeber the photo journals have been full of this event. It was my first contact with Iran and after I started to read some books of history. And since that time, I was fascinated ot the culture, Isfahan, Shiraz, the tribes at north to the Moghan dessert. Tribal rugs Gasghai, Schahsawan, Belutschi, are till today my passion, a real deep passion. I still hang on my dream, to be once at Isfahan, Shiras, Zargos mountains for flying at Rokh and so on......get the spirit of my personal oriental dream and of course one time in life be inspired at Persepolis....
No wonder Phil Leotardo had to go away for 20 years! He went from this to eating grilled cheese from the radiator. Tragic. Truly the sacred and the propane.
He compromised...
@@ericvanderheijden1013No more,Butchie,no more of this
Very interesting ... thank you
_good documentary_
The vanity of it. How fascinating! Cake anybody?
It was very very wasteful but I would rather live in the country then than now.
Not if you opposed the shah and get tortured. Not if you were one of the poor who's taxes were getting squandered on making the rich richer and your oil being sold cheap to the west so they could stay in power. It was one big club and your unimportant self wouldn't have been in it. Today, you dont have as direct a political repression and there is better opportunity for all, not just a select crowd. Even though today they are under US sanctions, the poor still get more than they did under the Shah's wealthy reign. The shah got to be so hated he was forced to leave the country and escorted to the plane on his sickbed. And then no other countries would take him in including the US and France . Egypt did, he died in egypt and then his family obtained permission to live in other countries. If it was simply about some brutal shia taking over, the Shah would have been assassinated, not escorted out on a plane by multitudes of people
This was a really informative documentary. It did a really good job at subtly pointing to the fact of Barbawa Wawa's reporting which as always consisted of insipid commentary that reports literally nothing.
Walters' "commentary" is being re-evaluated, and it looks like her "reporting" was trash and sensationalism from day #1.
At the time that was what was expected.. Reports are often of content that is relevant at that point in time, not the entire picture. Looking back it is much easier to see a larger picture of things. Her interview of the Shah in 1977 was not that way.
@@MondoBeno I'd like to learn more, links please.
We need more reporting like that of Walter Cronkite and less of the babbling morning show hosts we have today.
Watching the monarch’s enter the tent was like watching a narcissist parade.
VERY GOOD DOCUMENTARY . THANKS
Immense power makes people delusional.
All the leaders and dictators of the world think that they have a divine duty and mission and they must do what they think is right for their country, and of course they do not pay attention to anyone's words.
In this movie, the Shah of Iran clearly mentions this!
Hitler and Mussolini and others have also said.
And even today, the leader of Iran, Khamenei, says the same thing and even worse, he introduces his government as divine!
The madmen who are deluded by the fascination of power.
@@frankskoda-simmons lol! Raisins to watermelons. A freely elected leader, duly & peacefully in & out of power. Not a totatarian or fascist DICTATOR, murdering people left & right - never mind by the millions!
Such an extreme comparison really makes your bias shine 😉
Obama and Hillary havent mentioned a divine rule yet, so they can make it their own dictator rule without having to even pretend to uphold justice and truth. People from a greedy, murderous and morally reprobate society should not be judging complete strangers on the other side of the world. The US is every bit as repressive as khomeni ( and you know there's a parliament and president too right) and 100% moral lowlifes which have completely destroyed American society and people. Today, they are a strong self sufficient people and the US cant decide what is a boy or girl, get cancelled for political correctness, it's own people work to falsify elections , and are ruled by coporate industries who have constructed society to consume their goods even though its unhealthy and against their best interests. America isn't free any more, it's completely dominated by the interests of big business and big government bureaucracy. At least iran has managed to save its society instead of sacrificing them to western coporate control and the dull culture of technocrats
The fault is not only the Emperor or President or King , but the human stupidity that trust them
(good government never exist.)