Word: shah
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...year was 1971. Yet even then, to those who looked beyond the grandeur, there were signs that all was not well in the Shah's realm. The party grounds were sealed with barbed wire; troops armed with submachine guns stood guard. The University of Tehran was closed to forestall embarrassing signs of protest. By 1978, resentment against the imperial arrogance of Persepolis had ignited a revolution that spread from mosques to merchants to the remotest villages of the country. When Mohammed Reza Pahlavi died in a Cairo hospital last week at the age of 60 of lymphatic cancer complicated...
...Egypt to Morocco to the Bahamas to Mexico. Last October he requested permission to enter the U.S. for medical treatment. Despite warnings that his admission could irreparably damage relations with the new government in Tehran, the Carter Administration, encouraged by Henry Kissinger and David Rockefeller, decided to admit the Shah on humanitarian grounds...
Iranian anger at what was seen as American protection of the ousted dictator boiled over. Militants seized the U.S. embassy in Tehran, took everyone present hostage, and demanded that the Shah be returned to stand trial for various "crimes." Washington refused. There was no indication how his death would affect the 52 Americans who are still being held captive after eight months...
After his recovery, the Shah briefly found a haven in Panama. In March, fearful of extradition proceedings and again in need of surgery, he went to Cairo at the invitation of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, who offered his "good friend" a home and medical treatment there...
...measure of the manner in which he had ruled that in death, as in life, the former Shah was remembered more generously by foreigners than by his own people. Some of the harshest judgments had been pronounced by those who had faithfully, and sometimes servilely, worked under the Shah. "He was essentially a weak man who played the role of the dictator," said Fereydoun Hoveida, who for seven years was the Shah's Ambassador to the United Nations...