News stories have dredged up the name Reza Pahlavi, son of his birth country’s once supreme majesty, the Shah of Iran.

It is because of the shah that I am on The New York Post.

A Dec. 3, 1979, photo of Farah Diba, the handsome queen who lives in Paris, and me is on my wall. Back then, while His Majesty entered his final days, my phone rang. His twin sister, Princess Ashraf, unbelievably asked me to go to his hospital room.

Police, reporters, photographers and Iran troublemakers rang the building. Nobody allowed even close to the hospital doors. The situation, tense. Me, nervous. I was told I’d have security and that His Majesty had requested me.

That night I was to dine with our paper’s then-first editor, Roger Wood. When I explained........

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