"He had access to the shah, but he didn't have [formal] rank, he was never invited to diplomatic cocktails, because the Iranians wanted a degree of deniability [about their relationship with Israel] vis-a-vis the Arabs".
I anticipate Shah being brilliant on violence against women, West being great on the fact that low wages, while not a "female" problem, nevertheless are particularly hard to shift in female-dominated workforces, and Huq being a very significant voice in terms of the effect it has on women when racist and "othering" discourses become normal in debates about migration and asylum.
They took him to Evin – a highly visible prison at the foot of the Alborz mountains whose reputation for torture dates back to the shah.
It's also relevant that Saud al-Faisal, the current Saudi foreign minister, has been in his job since 1975, when the shah was still sitting securely on his Peacock throne and acting as the west's willing gendarme in the Gulf.
Shah Rukh Khan, the immensely popular Bollywood actor, found himself subjected to detention and "routine inspection" at a New Jersey airport this week despite being, we're told, a "very welcome guest" in the US.
Tehran's involvement has been "gradually opportunistic rather than causal," he said Sir William Patey, a former British ambassador to Riyadh, says some senior Saudis fear a return to the days of the shah before the 1979 Islamic revolution when Iran was America's preferred regional ally.
I think it might be Shah.
Mr Buchan's account of an infamous arson attack on a cinema, in which at least 470 people were killed, and which was blamed on the authorities (unfairly, as he demonstrates) is unrivalled.For all his faults, the shah was no butcher.
The most celebrated account of the events of 1978-79, by a Polish journalist, Ryszard Kapuscinski, explored in poetic cadences the flaws of the monarch himself, Shah Muhammad-Reza Pahlavi, and his browbeaten, but ultimately wrathful, subjects.
The army says that more than 40 of its soldiers have been killed in the course of capturing key towns in North Waziristan, notably Mir Ali and the agency's capital, Miran Shah.
The shah was a hardware geek.
