He worked with the U.S. Information Agency learning propaganda newsreel production from 1950 to 1965 (which significantly includes the time of the coup d'etat in 1953) and for several years served as the Shah's official cinematographer, accompanying him around the world on state functions. A quote from his book "A Picture of Persia" (pg. 50, Exposition Press, Hickville, NY, 1977) describes a film he planned. "This national anthem film would also include shots of Persepolis, symbolizing the continued monarchy in Iran over a period of 25 hundred years, shots of the Shah with different classes of people and depicting His Majesty as a leader of his nationals, point the way toward a greater civilization." The Shah could find no better local agent than Issari to trust film production to. Issari has been at MSU since 1969.