Royalty ( I Know, I'm obsessed with them)?

The likelihood of the pahlavs ever getting the Pea throne back are slim to none. It's not like they really were a royal dynasty anyway, as the late shah never was regarded as legitimate in his own country, and his father, who had taken power by coup in 1921, only held onto it by ruthlessly crushing any opposition. Basically, the pahlavis had as much dynastic legitimacy as the Duvaliers in Haiti or the Kims in Korea...