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...Reza Khan, a onetime army sergeant who with British help had become Iran's virtual dictator, proclaimed himself Shah. "I am against it. It is contrary to law," Mossadeq shrieked in Parliament, and he was the only prominent man in Iran with the courage...
...Reza Shah (the present Shah's father) took belated revenge on his old enemy. On a trumped-up charge, secret police arrested Mossadeq in his garden. When his favorite daughter, Khadijeh, then 17, heard the news, she suffered a nervous breakdown, is still in a sanitarium in Switzerland. (The Premier bursts into tears whenever her name is mentioned...
Married. His Imperial Majesty, Mohamed Reza Pahlevi, 31, Shahinshah (King of Kings) of Iran, and Soraya Esfandiari, 18, Europe-schooled daughter of a chief of the proud Bakhtiari tribe by his German wife; in glittering Marmar Palace, Teheran, Iran. Wearing a Dior silver lamé gown with 6,000 diamonds, the bride rode to the simple ceremony in a gold-trimmed Rolls-Royce. The Shah ordered festivities limited to one day, food distributed to the poor. Among the wedding gifts: a $1,500 crystal bowl from Harry Truman, a mink coat (reported value: $150,000) from Joseph Stalin...
...this heap of corruption sits the royal family. Every member of it is well and painfully aware of the fact that the dynasty was founded only 25 years ago. Iranian peasants are attached to the idea of monarchy, but even they know that the founder of the present line, Reza Shah Pahlevi, was a sergeant in the Iranian army, a "strong man" raised to power by British influence after World War I, broken and exiled by the British in World...
...Shah's brother, Prince Abdor Reza, is a graduate of Harvard (1947). He takes his public duties seriously and is a good influence on the Shah. They quarreled a few years ago, then made it up. Princess Ashraf was incensed when she heard that the Shah and Abdor Reza had taken to having lunch and playing billiards together again. No good word is spoken in Teheran of two other brothers...