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5 days ago · Farah Pahlavi, Empress of Iran, is the widow of the last Shah of Iran, Mohammed Reza Pahlavi. Before her marriage, she studied architecture at the École Spéciale d’Architecture in Paris. After the 1979 Iranian Revolution, she continued in her deep and abiding devotion to charitable work.
5 days ago · Mohammad Reza married two more times, in 1950 with Soraya Esfandiari and 1959 with Farah Diba. He replaced his father, Reza Shah , on the throne on September 16, 1941, shortly before his 22nd birthday.
3 days ago · Zahra Eshraghi, granddaughter, married to Mohammad Reza Khatami, head of the Islamic Iran Participation Front, the main reformist party in the country, and is considered a pro-reform character herself.
3 days ago · Initially Reza Khan wished to declare himself president in the style of Turkey’s secular nationalist president, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk—a move fiercely opposed by the Shiʿi ulama—but instead he deposed the weak Aḥmad Shah in 1925 and had himself crowned Reza Shah Pahlavi.
9 hours ago · 1921 - Military commander Reza Khan seizes power and is later crowned Reza Shah Pahlavi. 1941 - Britain and Russia occupy Iran during World War Two. 1953 - Coup engineered by British and US intelligence services overthrows Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh. 1979 - Iranian revolution unseats the Shah. 1980-1988 - Iran-Iraq war.
3 days ago · Soleimani grew up in a poor rural family, indebted by loans from Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi’s modernization program, in the province of Kermān in southeastern Iran. He worked from a young age in effort to help pay off the family’s debt.
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2 days ago · Reformist newspapers were accused of offending Islamic principles and shut down one by one, and six prominent intellectuals, including secular nationalist leader Dariyush Farouhar and his wife, Parvaneh Eskandari, were assassinated. Their murders were traced to agents of the Iranian intelligence services, whose representatives claimed that the ...
