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This was financed by the Shah's considerable personal wealth which had been built up by forced sales and confiscations of estates, making him "the richest man in Iran". On his abdication Reza Shah "left to his heir a bank account of some three million pounds sterling and estates totaling over 3 million acres". [70]
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi [a] (26 October 1919 – 27 July 1980), commonly referred to in the Western world as Mohammad Reza Shah, [b] or simply the Shah, was the last monarch of Iran (Persia). In 1941 he succeeded his father Reza Shah and ruled the Imperial State of Iran until 1979 when the Iranian Revolution overthrew him, abolished the monarchy ...
The Sheikh Khazal rebellion [5] refers to the 1924 Arab separatist [citation needed] uprising by Khazal al-Kabi, the Sheikh of Muhammara, in Iranian Khuzestan.The rebellion was quickly and efficiently suppressed by Reza Shah with minimal casualties, subduing the Bakhtiari tribes allied with Sheikh Khazal and resulting in his surrender and the end of Arab autonomy in Khuzestan.
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi came to power during World War II after an Anglo-Soviet invasion forced the abdication of his father, Reza Shah. During Mohammad Reza's reign, the Iranian oil industry was briefly nationalized, under the democratically elected Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh, until a US and UK-backed coup d'état deposed Mosaddegh and ...
Shortly before his death on July 27, 1980 (36 years and 1 day after his father), Mohammad Reza Shah told a small circle of intimates a location in Iran where, if his remains were to come back someday, he would like to be buried with soldiers and officers tortured by the revolutionaries; the authors imply that this place could be the same as ...
Amini, P., "A Single Party State in Iran, 1975–78]: The Rastakhiz Party – the Final Attempt by the Shah to Consolidate his Political Base," Middle Eastern Studies, 38 (1) January 2002, pp. 131–168. Further reading. Shakibi, Zhand (2018). "The Rastakhiz Party and Pahlavism: the beginnings of state anti-Westernism in Iran".
KN-C21063 13 April 1962Meeting with the Shah of Iran, Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi.Please credit "Robert Knudsen. White House Photographs. John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Boston." Author: Robert Knudsen. scanned from original 2 1/4" color negative on DAMS 2A by CG: JPEG file comment
Ahmad Reza Pahlavi was born on 27 September 1925. He received primary education in Persia (Iran) and then went to Switzerland for secondary education. [ 2 ] He enrolled in Tehran's military school but following his father's abdication in 1941 he moved with him to South Africa .