When Iran went off the tracks.

The Shah of Iran, seen in Tehran, Iran, 1976.

If one removes the optical theological angle of the Shia Revolution in Iran, and looks only at the economic data, it becomes rather clear, Iran was economically ruined by the revolution rapidly. Iran, before 1979 was considered to be a rising economy, and a wealthy nation by most of the world. The reality was that the Shah of Iran, had since the late 1960s become a…