S1/E21: The Regime Summons the Ghost of the Shah to Forge National Unity

Iran's Gambit

Reviewing the Persian language media, you sense that an unsettling atmosphere pervades the political landscape, as though destiny is inescapably closing in. There is also a palpable sense of fatalism, a resigned recognition that the path forward may not be altered and catastrophe awaits Iran. n this charged atmosphere, the regime's desperation to construct a semblance of national unity becomes palpable, so much so that it has begun conjuring the ghost of Shah Mohammad-Reza Pahlavi—a monarch whom it has long vilified as both a traitor to his people and a puppet of foreign interests. This ironic resurrection speaks to the regime's faltering grasp, as it calls upon the very figure it once condemned in its quest for survival.