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Volume 40, Issue 3, 2009

Special Issue:

REVISITING THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE SHAH OF IRAN

REVISITING THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE SHAH OF IRAN

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DOI:
10.1080/03068370903195204
Ivor Lucas*

pages 418-424

Available online: 10 Nov 2009
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Abstract

A brief account of the events leading up to the fall of the Shah, followed by an examination of how those events were seen and evaluated by the British government, especially the Foreign Office department concerned, of which Ivor Lucas was the head. Against this background he also provides an assessment of how far the British Government had realistic alternative policy options.

 

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  • Available online: 10 Nov 2009

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  • Ivor Lucas -

    Ivor Lucas was head of Middle East Department in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office at the time of the fall of the Shah. He was Chairman of the Editorial Board of Asian Affairs from 1995 to 2002 and remains a frequent contributor. Chapter 13 of his memoir A Road to Damascus (The Radcliffe Press, 1997) contains some additional details of these events.

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