“The real difficulty was caused by too precipitate liberalization… The Americans and the British kept pushing me; they wanted a democratic republic. They wanted me to be more liberal with my opponents. The changes were genuine on my part. But Iran is not ready for Western-style democracy.”

—  Mohammad Reza Pahlavi

As quoted in Marvin Zonis (1991), Majestic Failure: The Fall of the Shah, page 109
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