Shah if #Iran in an interview w Egypt's October magazine: "Instead of me trying tirelessly to relay to the people of Iran that you can with the help of your identity..., your strength, and your own resources, become a first world nation, today it has been instilled in their minds that they are an indigent, insignificant, and inferior people with no right to envision themselves as anything but. For this to come to fruition, they've closed all the power plants, dismantled factories, and cancelled all plans which were in place for the improvement of our national infrastructure. Because they want Iran to be a poor country so the powers to be could control it better. A nation that despite its wealth, its people would die from starvation".