http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/...ith_a_new.html

http://search.barnesandnoble.com/Lib...9780385511841/


By the early 1930s, Shah of Iran Mohammad Reza Pahlavi's close ties
with Nazi Germany began worrying the Allied states. Germany's modern
state and economy highly impressed the Shah, and there were hundreds
of Germans involved in every aspect of the state, from setting up
factories to building roads, railroads and bridges.

The Shah went on to ask the international community to use the native
name of "Iran" in 1935 to address to his country, which in Persian
means 'Land of the Aryans' and refers to Airyanem Vaejah, the Avestan
name of the original homeland of the Aryans. Although the country has
been known as Iran to the native people themselves for many centuries,
Westerners came to know the nation as Persia through Ancient Greek
accounts. Iranians were immune to the racial Nuremberg Laws on the
grounds that they were pure blooded Aryans. In 1939, Nazi Germany
provided Iran with what they called a Germany Scientific Library. The
library contained over 7500 books selected "to convince Iranian
readers...of the kinship between the National Socialist Reich and the
Aryan culture of Iran"(Lenczowski. 1944, p. 161). In various pro-Nazi
publications, lectures, speeches, and ceremonies, parallels were drawn
between the Shah of Iran and Hitler, and praise the charisma and
virtue of the Fuhrerprinzip (Rezun. 1982, p. 29).

From 1939 to 1941 Iran's top foreign trade partner (nearly 50% of its
total trade) was Germany, which helped Iran open modern sea and air
communications with the rest of the world.

In 1941, the Allies forced Reza Shah to abdicate the throne to his
son, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. His pro-Nazi followers in the Iranian
government such as Fazlollah Zahedi and Mohammad Hosein Airom shared
similar fates.

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