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In a wonderfully rich account of the Pahlavi regime’s collapse, “The Fall of Heaven” (2016), Andrew Scott Cooper describes a telephone call that Iraq’s President, Saddam Hussein, placed to the Shah in August, 1978.
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Andrew Scott Cooper describes a telephone call that Saddam Hussein placed to the Shah in August 1978 in The Fall of Heaven
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{
    "book": "The Fall of Heaven",
    "date": "August 1978",
    "year": "2016",
    "person": "Andrew Scott Cooper",
    "person_mentioned": "Shah"
}
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February 15, 2026 at 2:44 PM (6 months ago)
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King of Kings: The Iranian Revolution
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A New Yorker article reviews Scott Anderson's book, "King of Kings," examining the Iranian Revolution. The review explores the role of key figures like the Shah and Khomeini, and considers counterfactuals about the revolution's causes.

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