The American psychologist Marvin Zonis wrote that the Pourkian’s book is long on assertions and short on evidence of a homosexual relationship between the two, noted that all of the Shah’s courtiers denied that Perron was the Shah’s lover whom they all describe as a womanizer, and argued that strong-willed Reza Khan, who was very homophobic, would not have allowed Perron to move into the Marble Palace in 1936 if he believed Perron was his son’s lover.