Download or read book The Pride and the Fall written by Anthony Parsons and published by Jonathan Cape. This book was released on 1984 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From March 1974 to the end of January 1974, a few days after the Shah and his family flew into exile in Egypt, Sir Anthony Parsons served as British Ambassador to Iran. He witnesses the demise of Pahlavian power from inside the Niavaran Palace (where he was on close terms with the Shah), from his Embassy and from turbulent Tehran streets. This book is the candid, scrupulous accounting of each stage of that decline: of what Parsons reported to Whitehall, of what he said to the Shah and what he personally thought and felt.