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Reza Shah previously hired American consultants to develop and implement Western-style financial and administrative systems. Among them was U.S. economist Arthur Millspaugh, who acted as the nation's finance minister. Reza Shah also purchased ships from Italy and hired Italians to teach his troops the intricacies of naval warfare.
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 ...
Iran, in its various known forms, beginning with the Median dynasty, was a monarchy (or composed of multiple smaller monarchies) from the 7th century BCE until 1979.. It first became a constitutional monarchy in 1906 under the Qajar dynasty, but underwent a period of autocracy during the years 1925–1941 during the rule of Reza Shah, who, after staging a coup d'état that led to the founding ...
The Enigma of the Shah (Persian: معمای شاه, romanized: Mo'ammāye Shāh) is an Iranian historical drama television series, directed by Mohammad Reza Varzi. The story focuses on Mohammad Reza Pahlavi , the last Shah of Iran , and the events leading up to the Iranian Revolution which led to the abolition of the monarchy.
The mausoleum of Reza Shah (Persian: آرامگاه رضاشاه), located in Ray south of Tehran, was the burial ground of Reza Shah Pahlavi (1878–1944), the penultimate Shahanshah of Iran. It was built close to Shah Abdol-Azim Shrine. In addition to Reza Shah, his son, Prince Ali Reza, was also buried here.
Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. The White Revolution was a far-reaching series of reforms in Iran launched in 1963 by Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and lasting until 1979. Mohammad Reza Shah's reform program was built especially to weaken those classes that supported the traditional system.
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.
Sayyid Mahmoud Alaei Taleghani (Persian: سید محمود طالقانی, pronunciation ⓘ, also romanized as Mahmūd Tāleqānī; 5 March 1911 – 9 September 1979) was an Iranian theologian, Muslim reformer, democracy advocate, a senior Shia Islamic scholar and thinker of Iran, and a leader in his own right of the movement against Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.