Word: pahlevi
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...thousand workers invaded the university campus to battle students. In the teeming bazaar, steel-helmeted police beat back religious leaders who were attempting a three-day strike. All the excitement was over the social reforms of Iran's 43-year-old king of kings, Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi. After years of hesitation, the Shah at last was tearing the land from Iran's feudal village owners and religious leaders, distributing it to the peasants, and forcing factory owners to give workers a 20% share of their profits...
...Reza Shah ordered the women of Iran to abandon their veils, but over the years few other barriers to women's equality have fallen. Two months ago, Reza's son, Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi, issued a decree that had the effect of giving 2,000,000 women the right to vote and run for provincial and town assemblies. The right was implied, but no less effective for it. "Except for the mentally deranged or those with criminal records," stated the decree, "every Iranian individual has the right to vote and be elected...
Through the rubble heap that had once been the quiet farming village of Buin walked Mohammed Reza Pahlevi, Shah of Iran. On either side, the ruins of mud-brick houses were piled high above him; the sickening stench of unburied bodies poisoned the air. Grimy, sobbing villagers milled around him. "I have lost all I had. O Father of the Nation," cried one old woman, falling to her knees. "My husband, two sons, four daughters, and my two brothers with their nine children...
Palace for a 75-minute conference with Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi. To Johnson's expression of U.S. confidence in the goals of his government, the Shah responded at length and with passion: he reiterated his dedication to bettering the lot of his people, pledged to carry forward reforms in agriculture and education, reminded his guests that he had recently given more than $130 million of his personal fortune to improve the health and welfare of Iranians...
...outside his door, Alam gave the man $40, then had him thrashed and sent into the street without his pants. In 1953, Alam helped organize the counterrevolution that overthrew Mohammed Mossadegh. Before taking over last week as the Shah's chief minister, Alam was the director of the Pahlevi Foundation, a charitable trust worth at least $133 million, set up by the Shah to finance social-welfare plans out of the profits from royal holdings in banks, industries, hotels...