In the wide ranging exchange, the Shah addressed Iran’s relations with the Soviet Union and the perceived threat of communism, criticised Egypt’s President Gamal Abdel Nasser, and outlined the aims of his ongoing reform programme known as the White Revolution.
Pahlavi dismissed opponents of his reforms as a reactionary minority within Iran, and he discussed the assassination of Prime Minister Hasan Ali Mansur, gunned down just weeks before by a member of the Fada'iyan-e Islam in response to the exile of prominent cleric and vocal critic of the White Revolution, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.
Newly digitised, the interview had not been seen since its original broadcast in 1965.
