Word: pahlavis
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...Within Pahlavi Hospital, where most of the casualties were being taken, volunteer doctors, nurses and orderlies had all turned up for special duty as ambulance after ambulance pulled into the driveway of the emergency entrance. Stretchers were set up in rows outside, as if at an emergency medical center in a battle zone, while volunteers with megaphones shouted instructions to the drivers. The casualties were a microcosm of the revolutionary movement itself: a fashionably dressed woman in her 20s with knee-high beige plastic boots; a seven-year-old boy dressed inexplicably in a blue track suit; a frail...
Almost all of their wounds were in the stomach, chest, neck or head. One doctor, his white apron covered with blood, looked shocked as he probed them. "They are trying to kill these people," he said. Fifteen of those who had been wheeled into Pahlavi would die after surgery. One was a man in his 50s, another a 16-year-old boy. There was a young, muscular soldier whose uniform, even in death, was still smartly pressed. Outraged by the massacre, he had wounded his commanding officer and had in turn been fatally shot by his own comrades...
...quarrel with Bakhtiar. He has a long and honorable record of opposition to the Shah and a reputation for honesty rare among Iranian politicians. But he was named by the Shah, and Bakhtiar's insistence on upholding the constitution is widely thought to mean that he supports the Pahlavi dynasty. Privately, Bakhtiar has acknowledged that Iran would be better off as a republic with a new constitution; he has indicated his willingness to go along with a referendum in which the country would vote on whether to declare itself a republic...
...Ayatullah was a major force in the demonstrations which forced Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi to leave the country for what many believe is a permanent exile...
...promised to dismantle the estimated multibillion-dollar financial empire that the Shah and his family have created for themselves. Sources in Tehran last week, evidently now willing to discuss long secret information, disclosed something of the nature of that empire. The royal family and the Pahlavi Foundation, which the Shah created in 1958, operated 205 business firms, banks and factories in Iran. The foundation controls 96 such enterprises; the rest are either fully or partly owned by the Shah's relatives. Among other properties, these holdings comprise industrial complexes, office buildings, sports clubs, mining firms, entire villages, warehouses, interests...