Your Weekend Listen: An Astounding Account of a Revolution Still Plaguing Us
Scott Anderson’s “King of Kings” is a hair raising story of how feckless US officials helped usher in the virulent Iranian revolution
WHO KNEW? Not the CIA, evidently, or most of the American diplomats, military officers and U.S. weapons salesmen luxuriating in late-royal Tehran, as an Islamic revolution bubbled in the souks. Even as the end appeared near in 1979, the Americans were in a perpetual state of disbelief that “the slight, pompous, pathetically dithering Shah of Shahs, or K…
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