The Contemporary History of Iran - Part 31: “Rethinking the Shah of Iran - 2”

“Rethinking the Shah of Iran - 2” - Part 31 of the Roqe Media series, The Contemporary History of Iran. There is, perhaps, no greater figure in the Contemporary History of Iran than the last Shah of Iran, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. And there is no shortage of opinions about him and his legacy - from admiration to condemnation. But has the perception of the Shah and the Pahlavi period changed in the years since his overthrow and death in exile? Historian and analyst, Dr. Andrew Scott Cooper, author of the book, “The Fall of Heaven: The Pahlavis and the Final Days of Imperial Iran,” joins Jian Ghomeshi from Brussels, Belgium, to discuss the Shah’s time in power, and a changing and more sympathetic narrative amongst some historians and Iranians in the Diaspora about the Pahlavi era and the Shah, in the beginning of the fifth decade since this removal.