Andisheh TV interviews Historian and Stanford Professor Abbas Milani who has recently published his latest best selling biography on the Shah which he hopes to translate in Persian.
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Milani was also questioned about his own revolutionary past, responds to unfair critics and character assassinations towards him by people who have not even read the book, speaks about his academic career equally in Iran during the Pahlavi Era as well as subsequently in the US as well as on the prospects of a Royal Restoration in Iran of the Monarchy in it’s Constitutional Form with the current heir to the Peacock Throne, Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi.
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