Time for Reza Pahlavi to return to Iran and put on his Grandfather's boots and clean house! Consider this. Machiavelli believed all society followed a sinusoidal pattern oscillating between three types:
- Junta
- dictatorship, including monarchy
- democracy
When he was writing, his society and his neighboring societies were much like the Middle East is today. Of course, Europe is less of a warring nation these days and the weapons of war have become so devastating that we would be wise to consciously break from Machiavelli’s teachings. We have to graduate or perish. It is not in the interest of the Middle East or the United States that a, last century type, monarch go to Iran and "clean house".