Word: reza
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...salute the Iranian people for having succeeded in driving from power the Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi...
...ROMANS never made it to Persia. Twenty centuries later, the Germans couldn't break through either. But by 1953, American agents managed to move directly to the heart of Iranian politics, placing Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi on the throne his father had fled in 1941. And once he disappeared behind the awesome symbols and deadly trappings of autocratic power--the Peacock Throne and the phantom jet--both the Shah and the United States lost sight of any Iran beyond the central court and the romantic exotica of ancient Persia...
...line because they were outside the Tehran municipal jurisdiction. "We've paid one-third of that, but we haven't been able to get three drops of water," she complains. Meanwhile, an apartment building up the street, owned in part by the Shah's brother Gholam Reza, was instantly hooked up. "Why is he inside and why are we outside?" asks Mrs. Mokhtari...
...Ayatullah was a major force in the demonstrations which forced Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi to leave the country for what many believe is a permanent exile...
...seems to have been channeled in more or less the same direction ever since: his first book, Discovery of the Secrets, decried "the plots and plans which the father of the present Shah made with other leaders of neighboring countries," adding that "the orders of the dictatorial state of Reza Khan [the Shah's father] have no value. All the laws approved by Parliament should be burned...