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I know that I'm little bit late in posting this thing-they've already finished the first segment-but I've always abided by the motto: "Better late, then never."Farah Pahlavi is discussing her husband, her recently published book (An Enduring Love), and the future of Iran.

The heir to the Peacock Throne is 42 and has not seen his homeland for a quarter of a century. But viewed from Virginia, where he lives on his dwindling inheritance, Mr Pahlavi is convinced the ayatollahs who deposed his father are on their own way out. "It could happen in the next few months, or in one or two years," Mr Pahlavi tells the Financial Times over tea. "This regime feels cornered. People are rejecting this regime in its totality, they want to find a secular alternative." He compares the situation now with 1978, a few months before the...

But one man who firmly believes his historic destiny is fast approaching is Reza Pahlavi, son of the last Shah, who fled Iran in 1979 on the eve of the Islamic revolution and then died of cancer wandering in exile. The heir to the Peacock Throne is 42 and has not seen his homeland for a quarter of a century. But viewed from Virginia, where he lives on his dwindling inheritance, Mr Pahlavi is convinced the ayatollahs who deposed his father are on their own way out. "It could happen in the next few months, or in one or two...