The Golden Mask

"Winston" was the Genius of Politics at Oxford and a Freemason . He had advised the government on complex issues for many decades. I was honoured to get a 60-minutes appointment with him.

What I heard on the Iran situation from an old genius of politics was very similar to the information I had received from a young lady who had been raised in an orphanage . Homeira had been a genius too .

Winston gave me a 19th century English book to read , called "The Art of Colonization ". In this book, there was a chapter that explained how Dictators were overthrown by the British Empire and the way Puppet regimes were created .

Revolution

I tried on several occasions to convince my father about the conspiracy theory , but he never believed me . He could never accept the possibility that the British would wish to topple the Shah . He believed that the special members of the Lodge who controlled the Bazaris (Merchants) and Mullahs played a positive role in the National Security of the country .
It had not been a bad year for the security services in their war with the terrorists and the country had on the whole been quiet . There was not a revolutionary situation . The armed forces were loyal and, against this loyalty, no powerful basis of opposition to the regime stood much chance of coming into being , but I believed this to be the Calm before the Storm .

" It is not always when things are going from bad to worse that revolutions break out . On the contrary , it oftener happens that , when people put up with an oppressive rule over a long period without protest and suddenly find the government relaxing its pressure , they take up arms against it " Winston said .

If Civil Disobedience was the method to be used in toppling the Shah , then pressure had to be put on him to relax his grip . The clever tactic used by President Carter (in my view) was that he told the Shah on the one hand , if the human rights situation in Iran was not improved and if a start was not made towards a freer, more democratic political structure , he could no longer rely on American material and moral support, but on the other hand, President and Mrs. Carter's one-night visit to Tehran on December 31st, 1977 gave an interesting message . The great banquet at the Niavaran Palace was ostensibly private but the text of President Carter's after-dinner speech was widely circulated. The President warmly lauded the Shah's Iran as an oasis of peace and stability in a troubled region and referred in glowing language to the love of the people of Iran for their Shah . Certainly the Shah could not have complained on that night of any trace of coolness in American support for himself and his dynasty . This was a tactic (in my view) to put the Shah to sleep while the CIA did its job .