Probably the funniest thing I’ve read all week — especially the last paragraph:
By the way, Mr. Pahlavi says that in a democratic Iran, he would be honored to assume the title of shah in a parliamentary system, but only if the Iranian people ask him to. He already has at least one vote. On the way to meet him at his house, the nice lady who drove me there quite naturally referred to her boss as “His Majesty.”
Snorting drink through nose material:
“Mr. Pahlavi is in constant contact with people all over his homeland, including curious students who turn to him as a link with a more liberal past…”
Where has our Shah manque been “honing” those diplomatic skills, Benador or AEI?
God help us! There is nothing worse than the bratty kids of Iranian exiles who don’t actually think such a thing as SAVAK existed and indignantly refuse to believe any Iranians were really unhappy under the last shah. The worse subgroup are the ones who think the Israelis plotted the rise of the Mullahs to stop the emergence of a Mid-East power to rival the Jewish State.
The “Persians” (not Iranians) remind me of their Egyptian pre-revolution-loving cousins. If only their respective revolutions hadnt sucked so badly, we could have disgarded this crap to the dustbin of history.