Word: reza
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...Contemporary political Islam first exploded onto the world stage in 1979 with the Iranian revolution, which destabilized the politics of the Islamic world for almost two decades. That outcome was caused, in part, by the fact that the authoritarianism of Iran's pro-Western monarch, Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, tolerated no democratic challenge to his regime...
...However, Kermit Roosevelt's fame did not come through electoral politics, but through clandestine activities. As CIA chief in the Middle East in the 1950s, Kermit Roosevelt organized a successful coup to bring Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi to power in Iran and remove Prime Minister Mohammed Mossadegh...
...from running for reelection, rather than as a move to facilitate rigging the June vote itself. Flustered by the hardline backlash, the cautious Khatami may decline to run if the election turns into a confrontation with hardliners. "The President, personally, is the target of these pressures," his brother, Mohammed Reza Khatami, told the students. "He is (their) major obstacle, which all these efforts are aimed at removing...
...Though they waited for nearly two hours, portraits in hand, the students were disappointed when Tajzadeh didn't show up. Mohammed Reza Khatami attempted to pacify them. "Others will fill his place," he said. "One cannot lose hope over one person's defeat. All this is happening to push us to announce the funeral of reform...
...seizure of the U.S. embassy. But his politics moderated after he spent several years learning the ropes of Western democracy while earning a doctorate at Cambridge University. He is now a top strategist for the Participation Front, the moderate party led by, among others, the President's brother Reza. The name of the party is deliberate: what Iran's new revolutionaries want to bring to their country is legitimate--and open--democracy. "The people have very high expectations," says Mirdamadi. "They expect serious changes...