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oapen-20.500.12657-635252023-06-21T04:20:13Z Onze vriend op de pauwentroon Warnaar, Maaike The Netherlands, Iran, foreign policy, representations, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi bic Book Industry Communication::1 Geographical Qualifiers::1D Europe::1DD Western Continental Europe::1DDN Netherlands bic Book Industry Communication::1 Geographical Qualifiers::1F Asia::1FB Middle East bic Book Industry Communication::3 Time periods qualifiers::3J Modern period, c 1500 onwards::3JJ 20th century::3JJP c 1945 to c 2000 (Post-war period) bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HB History::HBT History: specific events & topics bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JP Politics & government::JPS International relations Reading the news about Iran today one can hardly imagine that relations between the Netherlands and Iran were excellent until 1979. Mohammed-Reza Pahlavi, the last shah of Persia, was known in The Netherlands as a visionary and reformer. Persia was represented as a mythical land with an ancient civilization. The Dutch royal family enjoyed visiting the shah, and large and small Dutch companies were successful in Iran. When in the 1970s awareness spread about repression under the shah, the Dutch government was faced with difficult choices. How could these relations be continued, now that public opinion had turned against it? The Dutch government decided to ignore the criticisms, and firmly held on to the idea of the shah as an enlightened despot. As such, it did not see the Iranian Revolution coming, and suffered the consequences. 2023-06-20T07:47:51Z 2023-06-20T07:47:51Z 2023 book 9789048558971 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/63525 dut application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International 9789048558988.pdf Amsterdam University Press 10.5117/9789048558971 10.5117/9789048558971 dd3d1a33-0ac2-4cfe-a101-355ae1bd857a da087c60-8432-4f58-b2dd-747fc1a60025 9789048558971 Dutch Research Council (NWO) 264 Amsterdam Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research open access
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Reading the news about Iran today one can hardly imagine that relations between the Netherlands and Iran were excellent until 1979. Mohammed-Reza Pahlavi, the last shah of Persia, was known in The Netherlands as a visionary and reformer. Persia was represented as a mythical land with an ancient civilization. The Dutch royal family enjoyed visiting the shah, and large and small Dutch companies were successful in Iran.
When in the 1970s awareness spread about repression under the shah, the Dutch government was faced with difficult choices. How could these relations be continued, now that public opinion had turned against it? The Dutch government decided to ignore the criticisms, and firmly held on to the idea of the shah as an enlightened despot. As such, it did not see the Iranian Revolution coming, and suffered the consequences.
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