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The other funny (sad) thing was in addition to oil there was that whole westernized fashion (clothes/rugs/etc) industry in Tehran.
Those are the Persian hotties you see on the OG Shah era film clips.
But, that ain't majority Iran.
Smaller cities like Qom are.
They were devout Muslim stoneage dirt farmers that the Shah fucked up by ending the feudal system (shoulda been a good thing right?).
Well, the water system got all fucked up and they fled to Tehran looking for work.
Only to sit and stew in the poorfag outskirt ghettos for decades getting radicalized by the glowie clerics the whole time.
Most of those surviving Persian hotties are old ladies living in SoCal these days.