From Persepolis to Mashhad: The Dictator’s Delusion That Spectacle Can Replace Legitimacy

Three-minute read In October 1971, Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi staged one of the most extravagant political pageants of the twentieth century. At Persepolis, amid the ruins of Darius the Great’s ceremonial capital, sixty-nine heads of state dined on roast peacock and drank Château Lafite while the Shah wove his Pahlavi dynasty—installed by a CIA-backed coup […]


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