Word: pahlavis
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...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...
...wealth the Shah plundered from Iran is ours without any shadow of doubt. According to the laws in force under the Pahlavi regime, the royal family as well as the Shah had no right to engage in business. And all transactions they made were laced with payoffs, coercion and illegal influence games...
...have said the U.S. should also compensate Iran for damages inflicted by the Pahlavi regime...
Thus was Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, the fallen Shahanshah (King of Kings) laid to rest las week. "I am fed up with living artificially. I don't want to live like Tito," the 60-year-old Shah had said shortly before his death from complications of lymphatic cancer two days earlier. Attendance at his funeral was far different from the international tribute paid last May to Yugoslavia's Josip Broz Tito. The Shah had expressed the desire for "a very simple funeral." But Sadat insisted that he be buried with military honors. Egypt's President skirted a potential...
...Shah was not to the monarchy born. His commoner father Reza Khan, a hot-tempered colonel in the Persian Cossack cavalry, seized power in a bloodless coup in 1921. He forced parliament to dissolve the decadent, 129-year-old Qajar dynasty in 1925 and proclaim him Shah. He took Pahlavi-an ancient Persian language -as his dynastic name. Following his coronation, his first-born son Mohammed Reza, then seven, was designated crown prince. The elder Shah paraded the child around in gold-encrusted uniforms, groomed him in sports and, when he was twelve, packed him off to Le Rosey...