British policy towards Iran 1977-79

After the abdication of Reza Shah in 1941 by the British, they would behave with his son like a mulish school boy until 1978 when the whole thing changed. During the last years of Mohammad Reza Shah’s reign, the British diplomat would do any cheap action to satisfy his majesty. This policy was not only in diplomatic flattery in the Iranian court, but it was observed in all fields between 1977 till 1979: in the British Central Criminal Court, in the former BBC building, Bush House, in The Secret Intelligence Service corridors and in Whitehall. The British policy in the last years of Shah before his fall is described as: “Although Pahlavi regime is not out of mistakes, but we support it and even suggest treatments for his imperial majesty’s warts.” However, whenever it was proved that the Shah’s regime warts had given him a displeasing figure the British were not so willing to act as a dermatologist.