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 | | Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi (Persian: محمدرضا شاه پهلوی) (October 26 1919, Tehran – July 27, 1980, Cairo), bearing the monarchial styles: 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'état 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. |
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