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  Mohammad Reza Pahlavi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Born in the Sadabad Palace complex in northern Tehran to Reza Shah Pahlavi and his second wife, Tadj ol-Molouk, Mohammad Reza was the eldest son of the first Shah of the Pahlavi dynasty.
Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi, crowning Farah Pahlavi as Empress of Iran.
Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi's tomb in the Al Rifa'i Mosque, Cairo, Egypt.
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 Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Mohammad Reza Pahlavi   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi (in Persian: محمدرضا شاه پهلوی) (October 26, 1919 – July 27, 1980), Styled His Imperial Majesty, Shahanshah Aryamehr (Light of the Aryans), was the last reigning Shah of Iran to date, ruling from 1941 until 1979.
Mohammad Reza was born in Tehran, Iran to Reza Pahlavi, the Shah between 1925 and 1941, and his second wife Tadj ol-Molouk (1896 – 1982).
His father, Reza Pahlavi, (1877–1944), had risen from the army ranks to defense minister(after a coup d'état which made Seyyed Zia'eddin Tabatabaee prime minister), and afterwards to prime minister, before being elected Shah by the National Assembly, (the Majlis), so starting the Pahlavi dynasty.
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Mohammad Reza Pahlavi (October 26, 1919 - July 27, 1980) was the last Shah of Iran, ruling from 1941 until 1979.
His father, Reza Pahlavi, (1877-1944), was minister of war and was elected by the Iranian Assembly as Shah in 1925.
Concerned that Reza Pahlavi was about to align his petroleum-rich country with Germany during World War II, Britain and the USSR occupied Iran and forced him to resign in favor of his son.
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 Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
His Imperial Majesty Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi (Persian: محمدرضا شاه پهلوی;) (October 26, 1919 – July 27, 1980) holder of the deferential title Aryamehr ("Light of the Aryans"), was the last Shah of Iran, ruling from 1941 until 1979.
Mohammad Reza was born in Tehran, Iran to Reza Pahlavi the reigning shah, and his second wife Tadj ol-Molouk (1896 – 1982).
His father, Reza Pahlavi, (1877–1944), had risen from the post of Minister of War to that of Prime Minister, before he was elected by the National Assembly (parliament), also known as the Majlis of Iran, as Shah of Iran in 1925, starting the Pahlavi dynasty.
www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Mohammad_Reza_Pahlavi   (1229 words)

  
 Pahlavi Dynasty
In 1925 the Majles deposed the absentee monarch, and a constituent assembly elected Reza Khan as shah, vesting sovereignty in the new Pahlavi dynasty.
Reza Shah then decided to abdicate, to allow his son and heir, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, to adopt a policy appropriate to the new situation, and to preserve his dynasty.
Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi (1919-80) was born in Tehran on October 26, 1919, the eldest son of Reza Shah.
persepolis.free.fr /iran/history/pahlavi.html   (3307 words)

  
 Articles - Mohammad Reza Pahlavi of Iran   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi (Persian: محمدرضا شاه پهلوی) (October 26, 1919, Tehran – July 27, 1980, Cairo), styled His Imperial Majesty, Shahanshah (King of Kings), and Aryamehr (Light of the Aryans), was the Shah of Iran from 1941 to 1979.
Mohammad Reza was born to Reza Shah Pahlavi (the reigning monarch between the years 1925 and 1941), who established the Pahlavi dynasty, and his second wife Tadj ol-Molouk (1896 – 1982).
His father, Reza Pahlavi, (1877–1944), had risen from the army ranks to defense minister (after a coup d´Ã©tat which made Seyyed Zia´eddin Tabatabaee prime minister), and afterwards to prime minister, before being elected Shah of Iran by the National Assembly, (the Majlis), starting the Pahlavi dynasty.
www.centralairconditioners.net /articles/Mohammad_Reza_Pahlavi_of_Iran   (2070 words)

  
 History of Iran: Reza Shah Pahlavi
In 1918 Reza Khan was referred to as a Brigadier General in the campaign of Cossacks in the Kashan area against the bandits.
Reza Khan's last wife was Esmat Dolatshahi (Death: 24 JUL 1995), the daughter of a Qajar Prince Mojalal al-Doleh, whom he married in 1923.
In 1925 Reza Khan deposed Ahmad Mirza, the last shah of the Qajar Dynasty, and was proclaimed shah of Iran.
www.iranchamber.com /history/reza_shah/reza_shah.php   (769 words)

  
 BookRags: Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi Biography
Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi (1919-1980) was king of Iran and second in the Pahlavi dynasty.
Mohammad Reza was born on Oct. 27, 1919.
In the fall of 1941 Mohammad Reza's father was forced to abdicate the throne by the British and Russian forces who had occupied the country after a short struggle.
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 BookRags: Reza Shah Pahlavi Biography
Reza Shah Pahlavi (1878-1944) was the founder of the Pahlavi dynasty.
Reza Khan, later Reza Shah Pahlavi, was born in the Caspian province of Mazandaran.
Reza Khan was also very sensitive, and from his youth he must have been disgusted with the despicable condition of the country and also of the army.
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 Modern Political History of Iran
Reza Shah, primarily a militarist and nationalist, was focused on ridding Iran of foreign interference and domination.
Reza Shah’s main goal was to solidify his power by eliminating any rivals, such as the independent and influential Ulama, the merchant class, and members of notable families.
Reza Shah’s army was defeated and he refused to act as the head of an insovereign state.
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 History of Iran: Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi
ohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi (1919-80), king of Iran (1941-1979), was born in Tehran on October 26, 1919, the eldest son of Reza Shah.
Mohammad Reza married two more times, in 1950 with Soraya Esfandiari and 1959 with Farah Diba.
They forced Reza Shah to abdicate, and in the absence of a viable alternative, permitted Mohammad Reza to assume the throne.
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 Mohammad Reza Pahlavi   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Basically, Mohammad Reza Shah's reign displayed the same two trends as were characteristic of his father's period, nationalism and modernization.
While Reza Shah had to nurture only one nationalist movement during his reign, nam~y his own, Mohammad Reza Shah had to deal with competing forces that interpreted nationalist objectives and priorities in a different way from his own.
Mohammad Reza Shah's reign differed also from that of his father's in the scope and content of modernization measures.
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 PRINCESS LEYLA PAHLAVI DIED OF RARE DISEASE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
PARIS 11 June (IPS) Princess Leyla Pahlavi, 31, the youngest child of the late Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and Empress Farah of Iran died Sunday.
Reza Pahlavi, the elder son of the Shah, who was overthrown by the Islamic revolution in 1979, said in a communiqué released by his office in nearby Falls Church, Virginia.
Pahlavi was giving a press conference, commenting on the Iranian presidential elections when he was informed about the tragic death of her young sister.
www.iran-press-service.com /articles_2001/jun_2001/leyla_pahlavi_died_11601.htm   (323 words)

  
 Pahlavi - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Pahlavi, Mohammad Reza Shah (1919-1980), shah (king) of Iran (1941-1979), whose programs of modernization and Westernization, combined with his...
Pahlavi, Reza Shah (1877-1944), shah of Iran (1925-41), born in Savad Kouh, Māzandarān Province.
Pahlavi entered the Iranian army as a youth, and...
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 Chapter Excerpt: The Crisis by David Harris   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
His actual given name was Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and in the fall of 1978 he was about to celebrate his fifty-ninth birthday.
Heretofore, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi had always at least looked the shah's part-seeming, according to one western journalist, "exactly like the person he was: rich beyond counting, handsome, alert, virile...self-possessed.
Known as Reza Khan then, he was still six years from becoming royalty, just the leading military commander of the previous dynasty, suppressing an insurrection that had proclaimed itself the Republic of the Jungle.
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 Histroy of Iran
Meanwhile, an Iranian soldier, Reza Khan, had been showing great gift for military leadership and organization, and had risen from the status of a private to that of an officer while the Iranian army was under the super vision and instruction of imperial Russian officers as military advisers.
As soon as Iran was occupied, Reza Shah was "advised" by the British to abdicate in favor of his son Mohammad Reza who had to adopt policies more appropriate to the circumstances.
Reza Khan's rapid ascent from common soldier to King could be compared with the rise of Napoleon in France or Bernadotte in Sweden; however, it was more striking in terms of the social distance covered.
www.farhangsara.com /history_pahlavi.htm   (3112 words)

  
 The Shah
Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi (1919-80), king of Iran (1941-1979), was born in Tehran on October 26, 1919, the eldest son of Reza Shah.
Mohammad Reza married two more times, in 1950 and 1959.
He continued the reform policies of his father, but a contest for control of the government soon erupted between the shah and an older professional politician, the nationalistic Mohammad Mossadeg.
persepolis.free.fr /iran/personalities/shah.html   (680 words)

  
 Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Muhammad Reza Shah Pahlevi   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Muhammad Reza Shah Pahlevi MUHAMMAD REZA SHAH PAHLEVI [Muhammad Reza Shah Pahlevi], 1919-80, shah of Iran (1941-79).
Reza Shah Pahlevi REZA SHAH PAHLEVI [Reza Shah Pahlevi], 1877-1944, shah of Iran (1925-41).
From a prominent clerical family, Khatami opposed the regime of Muhammad Reza Shah Pahlevi in the 1960s and 70s, and in 1978 he headed the Islamic Center in Hamburg, Germany.
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 Muhammad Reza Shah Pahlavi
Mohammad Reza Shah was a much weaker ruler than his father, Reza Shah Pahlavi, and where Reza Shah worked effectively towards independence from foreign powers, Muhammad Reza Shah used foreign aid to stay in power.
Mohammad Reza Shah was removed by the Islamic revolution of 1979, and was to a large degree responsible for it coming.
Mohammad Reza is now in full control over all of Iran.
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Mohammad Reza was the eldest son of Reza Shah Pahlavi, an army officer who became the ruler of Iran and founder of the Pahlavi dynasty in 1925.
Mohammad Reza was educated in Switzerland and returned to Iran in 1935.
Mohammad Reza then replaced his father on the throne (Sept. 16, 1941).
www.stfrancis.edu /hi/victa/stuweb/~tl8241/id9_m.htm   (591 words)

  
 Reza Pahlavi will speak on campus   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Reza Pahlavi to speak on campus April 4
Reza Pahlavi, the elder son of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the late Shah of Iran, will give a talk titled "Human Rights, Democratization and the Secular Movement in Iran.," at 6 p.m.
Pahlavi is an outspoken critic of the fundamentalist Islamic regime in Iran that forced his father from the throne in 1979.
www.news.cornell.edu /http://www.n/Chronicle/01/3.29.01/Reza_Pahlavi.html   (235 words)

  
 iranian.com: Afshin Afshari, Mohammad-Reza Shah Pahlavi
The Shah, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, and his twin sister Ashraf were born on October 26, 1919.
Following the separation between Taj-ol-Moulk and Reza Khan, the Shah was brought up in an almost exclusively feminine environment surrounded by his mother and his two sisters, Ashraf and Shams (who was born three years before him).
His motherís favorite child was Shams and, given her toughness, Zonis [5] speculates that she did not provide Mohammad Reza with all the love that he needed although he became very attached to her.
www.iranian.com /History/2005/January/Shah/index.html   (2023 words)

  
 NPR's Weekend All Things Considered -- Reza Pahlavi   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Pahlavi, 41, is the son of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the late Shah of Iran.
The younger Pahlavi was in America attending college in January 1979, when his father was sent into exile by a popular revolt that swept the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini and hardline Muslim clerics into power.
Pahlavi says he learned several important lessons from the fall of his father's regime.
www.npr.org /programs/watc/features/2002/jan/shah/020119.shah.html   (830 words)

  
 Online NewsHour: Governing Iran | Key Events in Iran Since 1921 | PBS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Reza Khan, a military officer in Persia's Cossack Brigade, names himself shah of Persia after successfully staging a coup against the government of the Qajar Dynasty.
Reza Khan Pahlavi is crowned, marking the beginning of the Pahlavi Dynasty.
Although Reza Khan declares Iran a neutral power during World War II, Iran's British-controlled oil interests are largely maintained by German engineers and technicians, and Khan refuses to expel German citizens despite a request by Britain.
www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/middle_east/iran/history.html   (1131 words)

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