Norriss S. Hetherington, in The
Middle East Journal (Summer 1982), 1761
N St. N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036.
When the Ayatollah Khomeini unseated the Shah of Iran in 1979, it seemed that Iranians had rejected their former leader's Western-style modernization goals. Actually, says Hetherington, a University of Cali- fornia research associate, it was the inefficiency and slowness of the Shah's program that turned his people against him.
The Iranian standard of living rose sharply after the first...