Book review: Downfall of last shah of Iran
An estimated 400,000 demonstrators against shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi filled the campus of Tehran University carrying huge portraits of Ayatollah Ruholla Khomeini and other opposition leaders on January 13, 1979.
- King of Kings: The Iranian Revolution: A Story of Hubris, Delusion and Catastrophic Miscalculation
- Scott Anderson
- Doubleday, €35.00
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