The Shah and I: The Confidential Diary of Iran's Royal Court.

From: The Economist (US) | Date: February 15, 1992 | Copyright information

PERHAPS, if he had listened more to his level-headed wife and less to the blandiloquence of Richard Nixon, the late shah of Iran might not have lost his throne. That, at any rate, is one impression left by the fascinating diary of Asadollah Alam.

Aristocratic Alam was the servant and confidant of the low-born shah for over two decades. As prime minister in 1963, he saved the shah from Ayatollah Khomeini's first attempt at Islamic revolution by ordering the army to fire into the crowds. His diary starts in 1969, when the shah was near the zenith of his power, and ends in ...

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