GRAPEVINE, Texas — Reza Pahlavi, the son of the last shah of Iran, was the undisputed show-stopping speaker at the Conservative Political Action Conference. 

His supporters treated the exiled leader with a fervor similar to that which President Donald Trump would have received if he had attended the annual gathering. 

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