Mollah.Gee, Frau Sherri, this might be the way your connections in and out of Iran think, but there are so many ex-Iranians living here in the U.S. and no doubt elsewhere who loved the Shah and said that if you kept your nose clean (unlike the Mujahedin who wanted to overthrow the Shah), there was no problem. Maybe in the mosque you attended in Reseda, CA the Iranians worshipping there felt otherwise. I guess that those who hated the Shah were resentful that he tried to drag Iran into the 20th century because they wanted to drag it back to the dark ages of 1332..
Herr Hossfry, Did you forget the CIA trained Savak that tortured anyone with a different opinion, I wonder how they perfected their torture tactics, that you seem to endorse