The prince and the dissident: behind an Iranian in Washington promoting democracy and nonviolence is a network that includes neocons--and the shah's son.(DISPATCHES)

AS A FORMER AIDE-DE-CAMP TO the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomenei and one of the founders of Iran's Revolutionary Guard, Mohsen Sazegara was once at the radical, sharply anti-American vanguard of that country's Islamic revolution. Operating from Khomenei's exile headquarters in Paris during the 1970s, the U.S.-educated student revolutionary was so close to the theocrats plotting to overthrow the American-backed shah that he flew into Tehran with Khomenei to launch the 1979 revolution--and later served in several high-level political posts in the Islamic revolutionary government.

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