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  NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
Reza Pahlavi (Persian: رضا پهلوی, born October 31, 1960), is the former Crown Prince of Iran, the older son of late Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and his Empress Consort, Farah Diba.
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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  Mohammad Reza Pahlavi - Wikipedia
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).
Concerned that Reza Shah was about to ally his petroleum-rich country with Germany, the British and the Soviets occupied Iran and forced the Shah to abdicate in favour of his son.
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi is buried in the ar-Rifai Mosque in Cairo, a mosque of great symbolic value.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mohammad_Reza_Pahlavi_of_Iran   (1405 words)

  
 HighBeam Encyclopedia – Free Online Encyclopedia for Reference, Research, Facts
Aga Muhammad Khan or Agha Muhammad Khan, 1742-97, shah of Persia, founder of the Qajar dynasty.
Muhammad Ali 1872-1925, shah of Persia (1906-9), son of Muzaffar ad-Din Shah, of the Qajar dynasty.
Muhammad Reza Shah Pahlevi 1919-80, shah of Iran (1941-79).
www.encyclopedia.com /category/People/History/irnhistbio.html   (1529 words)

  
 Mohammad Reza Pahlavi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
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.
Concerned that Reza Shah was about to align his petroleum-rich country with Germany, the British and the Soviets occupied Iran and forced Reza to resign in favor of his son.
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 Reza Shah Information
Reza Pahlavi was born in the village of Alasht in Mazandaran province in 1878.
Reza's first role in the new government was as commander of the army, which, in April 1921, he combined with the post of Minister of War.
During Reza Shah's sixteen years of rule, major developments, such as large road construction projects and the Trans-Iranian Railway were built, modern education was introduced and the University of Tehran was established.
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 History of Iran: Reza Shah Pahlavi
Abbas Ali, father of Reza Shah was a member of the Savad Kouh provincial army regiment and probably reached the rank equivalent to major, married his second wife, Noush Afrin, around 1877.
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.
Under Reza Shah's 16 years rule the roads and Trans-Iranian Railway were built, modern education was introduced and the University of Tehran was established, and for the first time systematically dispatch of Iranian students to Europe was started.
www.iranchamber.com /history/reza_shah/reza_shah.php   (769 words)

  
 Reza Pahlavi
Reza Pahlavi (Persian: رضا پهلوی), (March 16, 1877-July 26, 1944), called Reza Shah the Great during the Pahlavi era, was Shah of Persia (later Iran) from December 15, 1925 to September 16, 1941.
Under Reza Shah's 16 years rule the roads and Trans-Iranian Railway were built, modern education was introduced and the University of Tehran was established, and for the first time systematically dispatch of Iranian students to Europe was started.
Concerned that Reza Pahlavi was about to align his petroleum-rich country with Germany during World War II, the United Kingdom and the USSR occupied Iran and forced him to resign in favor of his son.
www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/r/re/reza_pahlavi.html   (497 words)

  
 Reza Shah - WikIran
During Reza Shah's sixteen years of rule, major roads and the Trans-Iranian Railway were built, modern education was introduced and the University of Tehran was established.
Reza Shah backed a strong policy of industrialization, to ensure that the country was not dependent solely on oil and agricultural revenues.
Fearing that Reza Shah was about to align his petroleum-rich country with the Axis Powers, the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union occupied Iran and forced Reza Shah to resign in favor of his son.
www.wikiran.org /wiki/Reza_Shah   (683 words)

  
 info: Reza_Shah_Pahlavi   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Reza Pahlavi was born in the city of Alasht in Savad Kooh county, Mazandaran in 1878.
Reza Shah Pahlavi 1878- 1944) Shah-en-shah (emperor) of Iran (1925- 41).
Muhammad Reza Shah Pahlavi 1919- 80) Shah-en-shah (emperor) of Iran (1941- 79).
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 Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi Biography | Encyclopedia of World 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.
www.bookrags.com /biography/mohammad-reza-shah-pahlavi   (708 words)

  
 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.
In the context of regional turmoil and the Cold War, the Shah established himself as an indispensable ally of the West.
By the mid-1970s the Shah reigned amidst widespread discontent caused by the continuing repressiveness of his regime, socioeconomic changes that benefited some classes at the expense of others, and the increasing gap between the ruling elite and the disaffected populace.
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 Reza Pahlavi Summary
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 Shah's main activity, however, was in internal reforms, which he carried out with the help of the army, which remained the object of his special devotion.
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 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.
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.
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 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.
Opposition to the shah himself was based upon his autocratic rule, corruption in his government, the unequal distribution of oil wealth, forced westernization, and the activities of Savak (the secret police) in suppressing dissent and opposition to his rule.
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 Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi - Picture - MSN Encarta
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi ruled Iran as shah (king) from 1941 until his overthrow in January 1979.
The shah fled first to Mexico and was later allowed into the United States for medical treatment.
In retaliation against the United States, in November 1979 a group of Iranians invaded the U.S. embassy in Tehrān and took a group of U.S. citizens hostage.
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 Online NewsHour: Governing Iran   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
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.
The shah implements "The White Revolution," an aggressive campaign of social and economic Westernization that is met with intense popular opposition.
www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/middle_east/iran/history.html   (968 words)

  
 Mohammad Reza Shah - WikIran   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
His father, Reza Shah, (1877-1944), rose from the post of Minister of War to that of Prime Minister, before he was elected by the Majles (Parliament) as Shah in 1925, beginning the Pahlavi dynasty.
Concerned that Reza Shah was about to align his petroleum-rich country with Germany during World War II, Britain and the Soviet Union occupied Iran and forced him to resign in favor of his son, who succeeded him on the throne.
With Iran's great oil wealth, Mohammad Reza Shah became the pre-eminent leader of the Middle East and Guardian of the Persian Gulf.
www.wikiran.org /wiki/Mohammad_Reza_Pahlavi   (830 words)

  
 Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
Faced with this situation, Reza Shah commanded the only reliable military force in Iran and the opposition to him, whether in the center or in the tribal areas, could never muster enough strength to overcome his skill, organization, and mobility.
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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 Mohammad Reza Pahlavi Summary
During the subsequent military occupation, the Allies forced Reza Shah to abdicate in favour of his son, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.
On April 28, 1951, Mossadegh, on the Shah's suggestion, had been named as Prime Minister of Iran by a vote of 79-12 by the democratically elected legislative Iranian body known as the Majlis and that the parliament's vote had been accepted by the Shah as legitimate at that time.
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi is buried in the Al Rifa'i Mosque in Cairo, a mosque of great symbolic value.
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 Mohammad Reza Pahlavi (1919-1980) - Persian Journal Latest Iran news & Iranian Newspaper   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi (1919-1980), A retrospective on his reign on the occasion of the twenty fifth anniversary of his death.
The Shah himself could hardly be given a clean bill of health as he brooked corruption in his entourage; yet he was far from the rapacious persona, with a fabulous wealth, which the revolutionary puffery sought to depict.
By the last quarter of 1978, in the face of an astounding quiescence by the Shah, the largely apolitical mass of the urban population swung to insurrectionists rendering the trend irreversible.
www.iranian.ws /iran_news/publish/article_8488.shtml   (2389 words)

  
 THE IRANIAN: Iranian of the Century, #5 Mohammad Reza Shah
Mohammad Reza Shah got the fifth highest number of votes (4%) in The Iranian survey.
However, the late Shah was a benevolent dictator; he gave lots of freedom to women and religious minorities.
* The Iranian of the century is Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the former Shah of Iran.
www.iranian.com /Opinion/2000/January/Century/mreza.html   (540 words)

  
 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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 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.
Ahmad Shah, the last Qajar king, was not willing to cooperate with the British; and the Majlis (the parliament) which at one time the British had favored was now an obstacle in their way.
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.
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 Politics and Economy Under Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi’s rule from 1953 to 1979 was marked by supreme autocratic control.
The Shah was radically different from his predecessors in that he did not have the same xenophobic outlook.
This primarily occurred because the Shah’s second mainstay, economic development, did not win the support of the people, and he, being the absolute monarch, was the only one to blame.
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 Mohammad Reza Pahlavi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
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 then Prime Minister before he was elected by the Iranian Assembly as Shah in 1925, starting the Pahlavi dynasty.
Following the Shah's departure, conservative Muslims led by the Ayatollah Khomeini who had returned from French exile staged a revolution abolished the monarchy and established an Islamic Republic.
www.medicaliterature.com /Mohammad_Reza_Pahlavi.wik   (710 words)

  
 Pahlavi, Mohammad Reza Shah --  Britannica Concise Encyclopedia Online Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
After an education in Switzerland, he replaced his father, Reza Shah Pahlavi, as ruler when the latter was forced into exile by the British.
His rule was marked by a power struggle with his premier, Mohammad Mosaddeq, who briefly succeeded in deposing him in 1953; covert intervention by British and U.S. intelligence services returned him to the throne the next year.
Shah was the old title of the kings of Persia (now Iran), and, when expanded into shahanshah, it means “king of kings.” The two Pahlavi kings were Reza Shah Pahlavi and his son, Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi.
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 Mohammad Reza Pahlavi at AllExperts
As Mohammad Reza Shah, he was the second monarch of the Pahlavi dynasty, and the last Shah of the Iranian monarchy.
The Iranian Shah, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi meeting with Arthur Atherton, William H. Sullivan, Cyrus Vance, President Jimmy Carter, and Zbigniew Brzezinski,1977.
The Shah's third wife was Farah Diba (born October 14, 1938), daughter of Sohrab Diba, Captain in the Imperial Iranian Army, and his wife, Faredeh Ghotbi.
en.allexperts.com /e/m/mo/mohammad_reza_pahlavi.htm   (2678 words)

  
 MidEast Web - Brief History of Modern Iran   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Fath Ali Shah died in 1834 and was succeed by Mohammad Shah.
Reza Shah's government transformed Iran in many positive ways, but his dictatorial politics caused unrest and hate, and his foreign policy failed to keep Iran independent, and managed at the same time to alienate both the Soviets and the British.
Reza Shah had ambitious plans for modernizing of Iran, including large-scale industries, major infrastructure projects such as railroads, a national public education system, a reformed judiciary, and improving health care.
www.mideastweb.org /iranhistory.htm   (5550 words)

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