In his "Hostage to Khomeini"
(1981), journalist Robert Dreyfuss wrote that, already in 1975, the
Club of Rome, the Aspen Institute and other "elite" think-tanks began
conspiring to remove the Shah and undo his modernization plans which
they saw as a threat to their power and control over the region:
"In
Sep 1975, the Aspen Institute held a symposium in Persepolis, Iran. The
public side of the transactions was published years later under the
title 'Iran: Past, Present and Future'.
In the behind-the-scenes
discussion, the plans for reversing the Shah's industrialization program
and for turning Iran into a model Dark Ages Regime were mapped out.
