| | The Future of Iranian Nationalism (Great Read!) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18) |
 | | The new Shah took measures to curb the influence of the clerics by dispensing with traditional ceremonies designed to show the close connection between mosque and state, and designed to demonstrate that the Shah depended on the mullahs to grant religious legitimacy to his reign. |
 | | When Reza Shah was forced out in 1941 by the Allies in their effort to conquer Iran and use it as a route through which they could supply the Soviet Union in its effort to fight of Nazi Germany, his eldest son, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi became the Shah of Iran. |
 | | The Shah sought at every opportunity to portray himself as the descendant of Cyrus, Darius and the rest of the Achaemenid dynasty, and went even further than his father in urging Iranians to consider as their role models pre-Islamic kings and mythical heroes, instead of the key figures of Iran's Islamic past and Shi'a history. |
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