Word: reza
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Chilean operation. Over the years, there were successes for the CIA as well: the 1953 coup that deposed Premier Mohammed Mossadegh (who had nationalized a British-owned oil company and was believed to be in league with Iran's Communist Party) and kept pro-American Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi on the throne of Iran; the 1954 revolution that overthrew the Communist-dominated government of President Jacobo Arbenz in Guatemala. The CIA has been suspected of participating in the 1967 military coup in Greece, the capture and killing in 1967 of Cuban Revolutionary Che Guevara in Bolivia, and the 1970 overthrow...
...Bhutto warned that his country, which has fought four wars with India since 1947, "will never surrender to any nuclear blackmail by India. The people of Pakistan are ready to offer any sacrifices and even eat grass to ensure nuclear parity with India." Iran's Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, who has been spending billions of dollars in recent years on conventional armaments, warned darkly: "If small nations arm themselves with nuclear weapons, Iran will seek possession of them sooner than you think...
Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi of Iran has such an appetite for American military hardware that some wags have wondered whether he might be willing to use some of his oil revenues to pay for the cost overruns that U.S. defense contractors often experience. Last week it appeared that he really might. The Shah's government offered a loan of undisclosed size to Grumman Corp. of Long Island to help it keep building the cost-plagued F-14A Tomcat fighter. Iran has ordered 80 of the planes, which cost $17.8 million each...
...Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, the Shah of Shahs, inheritor of Persia 's ancient throne, recently was interviewed by Time Inc.'s Editor in Chief Medley Donovan and Chief of Correspondents Murray Gart. Their meeting took place over tea in his enormous second-floor office, a cruciform chamber in green and silver, in the Niavaran Palace, the royal residence in Teheran. The highly active 54-year-old monarch sighed frequently as he talked, his voice sometimes dropping to a whisper, as though betraying the burden he feels as the absolute ruler of Iran's 34 million people. For more...
...SUCCESSION. We have provisions that the Empress will be regent until the Crown Prince [Reza, 13] comes of age when he is 20. She will rule with the help of a council. That is voted, accepted. It is legal. But I also have my political will [which has been] written, signed and sent to the people [in order to] try to keep what permitted us to be what we are-that is, to continue along our present course until the country is really developed and illiteracy does not exist any more...