War has already been declared in Iran — between Coca-Cola and the theocrats

The Shah is Dead. Long live the Shah — and I don’t mean Reza Pahlavi, the 45-year-old pretender to his late father’s Peacock Throne, whom many in Washington would like to install atop this most vexatious nation. The way things are going nuclear-wise, he may have a chance. But almost three decades after Khomeini’s revolution, the monarch who matters among Tehran’s business elite is the ‘Shah of Pistachios’, Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani.