Tag Archives: Shah

What Iran’s Leaks Really Tell Us About Syrian “Interim” President Ahmad al-Shara’s Past with the Islamic State

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 3 May 2025

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No Honest Person Should Be Using The HAMAS Casualty Figures For Gaza

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 15 October 2024

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The CIA: In Theory and In Practice

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 31 December 2023

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The 1954 Coup in Guatemala: A More Interesting Story Than American “Economic Imperialism”

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 30 November 2023

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The Cold War Roots of the Media Fiasco Over Israel

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 19 October 2023

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Iran Admits Responsibility for the 1983 Marine Barracks Bombing in Beirut

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 4 October 2023

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The Death of Al-Qaeda’s Leader Ayman al-Zawahiri: One Year On

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 31 July 2023

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Islamic State Attacks Iran and Many Iranians Ask: Did it Really?

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 2 December 2022

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Western Self-Hatred and the Iranian Revolution

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 1 November 2022

The late Bernard Lewis recorded in his memoir, Notes on a Century: Reflections of A Middle East Historian (2012), meeting the Shah of Iran “a year before” the Islamic Revolution that felled him, thus, some time in early 1978:

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The Shah’s Perspective on the Islamic Revolution That Toppled Him

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 30 October 2022

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