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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 first death sentences were for four of the shah's generals and were approved by the Tehran court in February 1979. [33] They were Mehdi Rahimi , the military commander of Tehran, Reza Naji , the military governor of Isfahan, Nematollah Nassiri , the head of SAVAK, and Manuchehr Khosrodad , an air force general.
This is a list of lists of deaths of notable people, organized by year. New deaths articles are added to their respective month (e.g., Deaths in February 2025 ) and then linked below. 2025
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Black Friday (Persian: جمعه سیاه, romanized: Jom'e-ye Siyāh) is the name given to an incident occurring on 8 September 1978 (17 Shahrivar 1357 in the Iranian calendar) in Iran, [9] in which 64, [1] or at least 100 [10] [11] people were shot dead and 205 injured by the Pahlavi military in Jaleh Square (Persian: میدان ژاله, romanized: Meydān-e Jāleh) in Tehran.
WAUKESHA - The man whose body was found one week ago in the Fox River within Frame Park died as a result of drowning, authorities said Thursday.. Scott W. Yehle, 63, whose body was spotted by city ...
Mehal Shah, a contestant on the Jan. 30 episode of the show’s Tournament of Champions, was not given credit for his answer in the final round because he misspelled a word by one letter.
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 ...