Shahdenfreude
Robert Graham, 19 June 1980
The Fall of the Shah
by Fereydoun Hoveyda.
Weidenfeld, 166 pp., £6.95, January 1980,9780297777229 Show More
by Fereydoun Hoveyda.
Weidenfeld, 166 pp., £6.95, January 1980,
The Fall of the Peacock Throne
by William Forbis.
Harper and Row, 305 pp., £6.95, April 1980,0 06 337008 5 Show More
by William Forbis.
Harper and Row, 305 pp., £6.95, April 1980,
“... sympathy for the man. When one looks at the case of his longest-serving prime minister, Amir Abbas Hoveyda, it is hard not to conclude that the Shah deserved everything he got. Hoveyda served the Shah as Premier from 1965-77, and then as Court Minister until September 1978. Two months later, in a desperate bid to head off ... ”
