Word: reza
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bright morning last month, a procession of elderly courtiers and politicians trooped into Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi's palace to discuss "crucial matters which have vital importance for the future of the monarchy." The "matters" boiled down to one: the failure of beautiful, 25-year-old Queen Soraya to produce an heir in seven years of marriage...
...feminist demonstrations. In the more cosmopolitan Moslem cities such as Rabat, Cairo, Beirut, Istanbul and Karachi, unveiled women have long since ceased to be a novelty. In Turkey the veil was lifted some 30 years ago under the late great Dictator Kemal Ataturk, and in Iran under the late Reza Shah...
Married. Princess Shahnaz, 17, green-eyed daughter and only child of Iran's Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi (by his first wife, Egypt's Princess Fawzia, sister of ex-King Farouk); and Ardashir Zahedi, 28, U.S.-educated agricultural engineer, son of ex-Premier Fazlollah Zahedi (who helped to boot out weepy Mohammed Mossadegh in 1953 and was later himself edged out on charges of corruption); in Teheran's Royal Palace...
This Elizabethan description of nomadic Persians (from Hakluyt's Principal Voyages) would have been accurate in the time of Herodotus (circa 484-425 B.C.) and was still accurate in A.D. 1926, when Persia's modern-minded Reza Shah Pahlavi began his reign, set about freeing the women of their veils, ordered the men into Western suits and decided that nomadic existence was "a blot on his progressive country." Harried by the Shah's troops, the nomadic tribes "settled," but in 1941, when Reza was forced to abdicate after the Allies moved into Persia, the tribes went back...
Iran's Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi and his comely Queen Soraya winged into Madrid for what was billed as a four-day state visit. But Spain's Dictator Francisco Franco was not the notable they came primarily to see. On their very first day in Madrid, the Shah called in the dean of Madrid University's medical school, Dr. Jesus Garcia Orcoyen, an internationally renowned gynecologist, and asked him to examine Soraya. Apparently at stake was their marriage. After six childless years with Soraya, the Shah, whose only child is a daughter by his first wife Fawzia...