Reza Pahlavi – the man who could have been Shah

Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi - the son of the last Shah of Iran and heir to the Peacock Throne - hasn't been home in 45 years. Neither has his wife, Yasmine. Their three daughters, raised in the suburbs of Washington, DC, have never set foot in their ancestral homeland. Now 63, Pahlavi left Iran at age 17 for military school in the United States just before his cancer-stricken father, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, relinquished the throne on Jan. 16, 1979. The Shah's departure left behind a leadership vacuum filled by Ruhollah Khomeini, which catalyzed Iran's transformation into the conservative theocracy cut…