Shah of Iran was considered a threat to the Western interests in the 70s.
http://masoudbehnoud.com/weblog/s2.pdf (Real history)
http://masoudbehnoud.com/weblog/s2.pdf (Real history)
If we had some real journalist rather than those sad bunch of propagandist working for the corporate/state interests, we might have had a better understanding of what is going on in the world.