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Source: http://blogs.wsj.com/middleeast/2013/07/30/this-years-ramadan-tv-hit-in-iran-reza-shah-pahlavi/
This Year's Ramadan TV Hit in Iran: Reza Shah Pahlavi
(Wall Street Journal) Farnaz Fassihi - This year's surprise Ramadan hit in Iran is a documentary lionizing Reza Shah Pahlavi, the father of the deposed shah, depicting him as a great nationalist and visionary. The London-based Persian satellite channel Manoto TV aired the documentary, which has taken Iran by storm. By Tuesday most Iranian media had published some sort of reaction. The movie challenges a core principle of the Islamic Republic's regime: that monarchy was absolutely destructive and the Pahlavi dynasty, the last monarch overthrown in the 1979 revolution, did nothing good for Iran. The conservative news website Khabaronline.ir noted: "We can't deny history, people have eyes, they see the university and the railroad that he [Reza Shah] built."