Word: pahlavi
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...Iranians have demanded a U.S. promise of nonintervention in Iranian affairs, the freeing of more than eight billion dollars in assets frozen by the Carter administration, cancellation of all American claims against Iran and return of the wealth of the late Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi...
...From his home in exile in Egypt, Reza Pahlavi, the elder son of the late Shah, last week marked his 20th birthday by proclaiming himself Shah of Iran and calling on his countrymen to join forces in ending the "nightmare" wrought by the Iraqi invasion and the revolution that ousted his father from the Peacock Throne...
...holdings. However, the U.S. would have no authority to turn them over to Tehran unless litigation proved they had been illegally acquired by the Shah and his relatives. About all the Administration could do to satisfy this condition would be to assist the Iranians in tracking down the Pahlavi fortune and pursuing it through the U.S. courts...
...since spring, when border clashes began to intensify and spread along the 760-mile frontier between the two countries. Traditional enemies, divided by ethnic and ideological differences, Iraq and Iran had come to a temporary accommodation in 1975 when Saddam, then Vice President, and the late Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi announced a frontier agreement during an OPEC summit in Algiers. The centerpiece of the accord was a change in the status of the Shatt al Arab, long a source of friction between the two nations. Under the Algiers agreement, the border was moved from the Iranian side of the disputed...
...land at Mehrabad: they thought it was an Iraqi plane. Opposition parties like the left-wing Socialist People's Mujahidin and the Marxist People's Fedayan were captured by the patriotic fever and backed the war effort of President Abolhassan Banisadr's government. Even Reza Pahlavi, 19, the Shah's oldest son, who is studying at the American University in Cairo, volunteered his services from abroad as a fighter pilot...