Word: pahlevi
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...Iranian militants have held hostages in the embassy since November 4 hoping to exchange them for the former shah of Iran, the Mohammed Reza Pahlevi, currently receiving medical treatment in New York City...
Although nearly 87 per cent of the students felt Mohammed Reza Pahlevi, the Shah of Iran, should not be turned over to the Iranians. 35.5 per cent favored deportation of the exiled leader...
...William Miller, a Senate Intelligence Committee staff member, were carrying a personal message from President Carter to the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. The letter asked for the Ayatollah's help in freeing the hostages, held since Sunday by students demanding that the United States return the exiled Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi to Iran for trial...
...Shah Pahlevi? Idi Amin? Papa...
...westernized along the Shah's U.S. inspired model. At the root of Iranian protest were the twin grievances that Iran engendered--the oppression that the Shah required, and the challenge to cultural and nationalist ideals that westernization entailed. The press ignored those social grievances of opponents to the Pahlevi regime who cited vicious police state tactics, the dramatic concentration of wealth in the Shah's Iran as well as the royal family's own record of corrupt financial transactions. Further, the validity of the cultural and religious imperatives that the Shah's opponents accused him of ignoring could...