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Hace 1 día · Mohammed Reza Pahlavi [a] (26 October 1919 – 27 July 1980), commonly referred to in the Western world as Mohammad Reza Shah, [b] or just simply The Shah, was the last monarch of Iran.
Hace 3 días · Reza Shah Pahlavi. The 1979 revolution, which brought together Iranians across many different social groups, has its roots in Iran’s long history. These groups, which included clergy, landowners, intellectuals, and merchants, had previously come together in the Constitutional Revolution of 1905–11. Efforts toward satisfactory ...
Hace 2 días · The last king of Iran, who ruled from 1941 to 1979, was a son of Reza Shah and an ally of the West. He faced political and religious opposition, economic and social changes, and a revolution that overthrew his regime.
Hace 3 días · supreme leader of Iran, head of state in Iran, overseeing virtually all functions of government either directly or indirectly. The post was instituted as rahbar (“leader”) in 1979 with the creation of Iran’s Islamic Republic, which blends democratic elements with theocratic oversight from Islamic clerics of the Twelver Shiʿi sect.
Hace 3 días · The 1953 Iranian coup d'état, known in Iran as the 28 Mordad coup d'état (Persian: کودتای ۲۸ مرداد), was the U.S.- and British-instigated, Iranian army-led overthrow of the elected Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh in favor of strengthening the monarchical rule of the shah, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, on 19 August 1953 ...
Hace 3 días · The ousting of Pahlavi, the last Shah of Iran, formally marked the end of Iran's historical monarchy. After the 1953 Iranian coup d'état, Pahlavi aligned Iran with the Western Bloc and cultivated a close relationship with the United States to consolidate his power as an authoritarian ruler.
Hace 5 días · Notably, Iran did not join the Arab oil embargo imposed in response to the Nixon administration’s support for Israel in the 1973 Yom Kippur War—although it helped engineer and profited hugely from the rise in oil prices by the end of that year. The shah also remained scrupulously impartial in the Arab-Israeli conflict.
