Yep (I frankly watched it right away as I was interested in his take) .....he broke his own rule (emotion vs logic)...but its quite clear why, he explained it even....that his father figure was that persian guy....so yeah. I found such pro-shah persians quite convincing and good people personally too....but I just know better than to blindly believe all they say.
I doubt he would have such heavy of a stance if things went different in that formative time of anyone's life.
I mean the Shah was definitely NOT all rainbows and sunshine that he makes out....I personally remember that documentary covering Shah doing that stupid ridiculous expensive tent-palace event for reestablishing persepolis or whatever it was.....not to mention the heavy handedness Shah used (full ego trip ) instead of making some compromises and nipping the developing dissonance in the bud.
Of course neither are the iran theocrats rainbows and sunshine either....Iran needs some solid middle ground ideally, it deserves much more than it has got so far....but onus is on Iranians to figure it out....thats my consistent position. No business of anyone else to call for outside intervention etc...or worse do it/commit to it. Thats what neo-cons and neo-libs dream of....and it wrecked large part of US and western economy when they realised that dream....and we supposed to just forget that now? Yeah no.