Word: reza
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...life (26 years) sallow, dewy-eyed Mohamed Reza Pahlevi, Shah of Iran, had been anxious to please, an attitude largely conditioned by his autocratic father, the late, tough Reza Shah Pahlevi. Like his ten brothers and sisters, Mohamed Reza grew up in awe and admiration of the domineering old martinet who rose from the soil to root a dynasty in nothing more substantial than the high, dry air of Teheran's political intrigue...
What were Russia's interests in the Middle East? This was the biggest problem of all. If King Farouk doubted that Russia had any such interests, his brother-in-law, Iran's Shah Reza Pahlevi, could quickly undeceive him. Scarcely three months ago Russia had overturned a Teheran government that refused the Kremlin oil concessions in Iran (TIME, Nov. 20). And at 25, King Farouk was politically old enough to know that the question of Russia was related to the permanent problem of Egypt's ragged, underfed population. Most of them had never seen a Russian...
...bronze plaque for the City of Stalingrad, General Charles de Gaulle climbed into his transport plane and zoomed off for Moscow. In Cairo, he dropped down for a chat with Egypt's King Farouk. In Teheran, he dropped down for a chat with Iran's Shah Reza Pahlevi. But at Baku, Russia's big oil city on the Caspian Sea, General de Gaulle ran into General Winter...
...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...
...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...