The Shah: America’s Nuclear Poster Boy

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Back in the good old days,
the regal Shah served as the poster boy
for US power companies selling nuclear reactors
TO A SKEPTICAL AMERICAN PUBLIC!

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The Shah of Iran: A Nuclear Poster Boy


Based in Washington, DC, Rostam Pourzal writes about the politics of human rights for Iranian expatriate journals. MRZine has published his “Market Fundamentalists Lose in Iran (For Now)” (3 Aug. 2005); “Open Letter to Iran’s Nobel Laureate” (27 Feb. 2006); and “Open Letter to Iran’s Nobel Laureate: Part 2” (9 Mar. 2006).