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| | Brief History of Iran (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15) |
 | | When Karim died (1779), Agha Muhammad Ghajar (Qajar), a warlord from the north whom Karim had managed to restrain, went on a ruthless campaign which led to his assassination in 1797 but also resulted in the reunification of Iran under his successor Fath Ali Shah, founder of the Ghajar dynasty. |
 | | In 1951, there began a tug of war between, on one side, the nationalist prime minister Muhammad Mussadegh, and on the other, the young Reza Shah supported by the western powers. |
 | | Mussadegh, who was prone to crying in public, nationalized the oil industry and was removed in 1952. |
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