![]() ![]() Perhaps as a result, he promoted and supported all types of equestrian activities. The Shah’s true love, however, was horses. The Iran of the 60’s and 70’s was a country with the most beautiful snow skiing in the world it had a world-renowned soccer program there were country clubs and civic parks with golf courses, tennis courts, swimming pools, and just about every activity anyone might want. He was also a sportsman and realized that his people needed leisure time, and so he encouraged and supported sports activities. ![]() He believed that by developing industry, education, economics, and the military, his dream could come to fruition. He wanted his country once again to become as powerful as the Great Persian Empire of the past. Mohamed Reza Pahlavi followed his father Reza Shah’s vision to make Iran the leading power in the Middle East. ![]() As the wife of an American businessman, the author spent the better part of the 1970’s in Iran where she witnessed the boom of the Shah’s development and great vision for Iran to be recognized internationally in every field it was to be Iran’s Great Civilization. ![]()
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