Iran is spinning out of control, just like the last days of the Shah

The Struggle for Global Leadership
Written By David Patrikarakos

The last days of the Shah of Iran have become a cautionary tale. The absolute ruler of Iran, who had the best equipped army in the Islamic Middle East, extreme oil wealth, and the backing of the United States, spent his final years watching everything he had once taken for granted spin out of control, seemingly unable to act. It was a miserable process that ended, legend has it, in him fleeing Iran in a plane that struggled to take off because it was so stuffed with gold and any other valuables that he was able to trouser at the...

David Patrikarakos for The Telegraph.

David Patrikarakos

David Patrikarakos is a writer and a journalist, expert on the use of Social Media in Conflict, Disinformation and Middle East Geopolitics. He is the author of War in 140 Characters - how social media is reshaping conflict in the twenty-first century and Nuclear Iran - the birth of an atomic state. Patrikarakos is a non-resident fellow at the University of St. Andrews.

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