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...regular TIME-readers this view of Iran's importance was no surprise. Back in 1929 when trouble in nearby Afghanistan created a stir in the U.S., the editors pointed out that little-noticed Iran was far more vital to the West. The spur-jangling Reza Shah Pahlavi of Iran (father of the present Shah of Shahs) was the subject of three TIME cover stories between 1934 and 1941, was described as "emancipator of his country from British domination." In conditions remarkably similar to those of today, a 1941 story centered around a map titled "Iran-New Focus in Middle...
...week's end the Russians had also fired a broadside at the late Shah Reza Pahlavi, who managed to get the Red Army out of Iran during an earlier occupation. Carefully uncriticized was Reza's son, young Shah Mohamed Reza Pahlavi, who was well on the way to becoming the King Mihai of Asia's Balkans. The Russians had already hinted to him that he might be able to find a new premier...
...been advising the oil-conscious Iranian Government on its oil policies since last June. By last week Teheran oil politics were gushing over. Three U.S. companies-Standard Oil Co. (N.J.), Socony-Vacuum Oil Co. Inc. and Sinclair Oil Corp.-were seeking oil concessions from suave, car-mad Mohammed Shah Pahlavi in competition with the British Anglo-Iranian Oil Co., Ltd., the only company operating in Iran. The Royal-Dutch Shell group was reported to be angling for similar concessions. And from Moscow came word that a Soviet mission has arrived in Teheran to negotiate a Russian oil concession...
Died. Reza Shah Pahlavi, 66, deposed Shah of Iran; in Johannesburg, South Africa. The tyrannical, miserly, violently anti-foreign builder of modern Iran, he became its dictator by military coup in 1921, "resigned" in favor of his son after the Russian-British invasion...
Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, Persia's handsome, 24-year-old Shah (his Queen is the beauteous Egyptian Princess Fawzia, sister of Egypt's King Farouk) was presented with a jeep by Major General Donald Hilary Connolly, U.S. Commander in the Persian Gulf area...