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August 1953 In Operation Ajax, CIA officers in Iran engineer a coup against Premier Mohammed Mossadegh, restoring SHAH REZA PAHLAVI to the throne. The agency's role soon becomes widely known...
...technique that he honed as a graphic designer and illustrator before beginning his filmmaking career making advertising shorts in Tehran in 1950, 29 years before the fall of the Shah. In 1969 he was one of the founding members of Kanun, a youth culture institute set up by the Pahlavi regime that became the center of a new wave in Iranian cinema. During the '80s Kiarostami remained at Kanun, now the Islamic Republic's state film body. Though visually daring and often playfully provocative, the films he made during this time were overtly non-controversial. Today, with all that...
...Pahlavi is getting a better hearing on Capitol Hill and on Washington's diplomatic circuit. Until recently his case was easy to dismiss. To Islamic conservatives in Iran, he is a nightmare, while to reformists, he poses the most serious threat of all--an alternative to their milder vision of the Islamic republic...
Since Sept. 11, Pahlavi's stature has increased in Tehran and Washington. Many Iranians reacted enviously to the fall of the Taliban and the liberation of Afghan life--especially for women. Some are impressed by the rehabilitation of Mohammed Zahir Shah, the exiled Afghan King, who plans to return soon to Kabul for the first time in 29 years. In a TV broadcast last October, Pahlavi urged Iranians to demonstrate peacefully after their country's qualifying games for the World Cup. But young people poured into the streets, chanting anti-regime slogans in a fierce show of discontent. In Tehran...
...Pahlavi's reputation would be sullied if he shared the Shah's famously imperious manner and tastes. (At a 1971 celebration of 2,500 years of the Persian Empire, an entire ton of Iranian caviar was consumed.) So far, the Crown Prince has avoided being tainted with the family reputation. He drives a Jeep, wears a black plastic watch and says he plans to give up caviar. He can come across as a sort of Al Gore--earnest, consciously cerebral, techie. If the prospect of an Iranian Gore sounds grim, consider the alternatives--either before 1979 or after...