Hoshang Davallo, close friend of the Shah

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The nation saw an unprecedented rise in per capita income rising to the highest level at any point in homeland’s history and high levels of urbanization. By 1977, homeland’s armed services spending, which the Shah saw as a means to end foreign intervention in homeland, had made the nation the world’s fifth strongest military.

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