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    Documentary examines the political intrigue and medical mistakes that killed the shah of Iran

    by Jeffrey Fleishman, Los Angeles Times Nov 16, 2017 3 minutes

    He died in exile, a broken emperor in an unraveling world.

    Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the shah of Iran, drew his last breath in Egypt in 1980 following a 19-month odyssey that turned him into an opulent, unwanted vagabond at the center of a volatile relationship between the U.S. and the Islamic Revolution that swept Ayatollah Khomeini to power. His story is an enigmatic tale of an autocrat who misjudged history and miscalculated the forces arrayed against him.

    The new documentary "A Dying King: The Shah of Iran" unfolds like a medical

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