Iran: Under the Shah and under the Ayatollah

Before the shouting starts up again, let’s fix a cool, appraising, Bakeresque eye on the Shah: What did he do and when did he do it?

Specifically, the Shah has been accused of having had under lock and key either 350,000 or 100,000 foes of his regime (according to Khomeini and exile sources as far back as the mid-Seventies) and of having killed 100,000 enemies (Khomeini).