Milani Fears Nuclear Iran Would Spur Mideast Arms Race Commonwealth Club - The Commonwealth Club of California Abbas Milani is Co-Director of the Iran Democracy Project and author of The Shah. He will reveal the complex and sweeping road that has brought the U.S. and Iran to where they are today.The life of Mohammad-Reza Shah Pahlevi, the last Shah of Iran, continues to resonate today. Milani looks at the monarch who shaped Iran’s modern age and with it the contemporary politics of the Middle East.