Reply #18: yep, one of his less harmful rituals

[slaveplanet]

was marching the population out in the burning sun to worship his motorcade.

This is the guy the CIA installed for the oil companies to replace the democratically elected guy who only a short while before was all the rage, even appearing on the cover of Time magazine as man of the year in 1951.

but not playing along with big oil and offering to use your petroleum resources to help your own people will get you labelled a commie.
And it'll get you a special ordered CIA coup de etat.

Way to win the hearts and minds ehh...

you bet the thug Shah had US support.