How to avoid the Islamic Revolution?

Cancel the big party in 71. That appeared to show resa out of touch.
Expand Iran’s relationship with other developed powers, I would make ties with Israel offical.
Muhammad resa will not go down Sadat’s path. Use savak not against civilian protesters but, aganist corrupt officials and extremists in the clergy. Cultivate a relationship with India through the Zoroastrians. Bring The Baha’i into the tent, like the south Vietnamese did montanyards. These two minority’s can be very useful.


One of the problems is that the army is often unwilling to act against its own population. For this reason, many states have armies of different nationalities who will fire on the population if ordered eg the Tzar used Cossacks. Maybe Kurds, Azerbaijanis or one of the groups in the Caspians could be so used. There also was an Iranian Cossack army which the Pahlavi Dynasty largely came from, it became the Iranian army but maybe this was a mistake and it should have been kept separately.
 
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