Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
Shah of Iran from 1941 to 1979 From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Mohammad Reza Pahlavi[a] (26 October 1919 – 27 July 1980) was the last reigning Shah of Iran from 1941 until he was overthrown by the 1979 Islamic revolution led by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, which abolished the Iranian monarchy to establish the Islamic Republic of Iran.
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During World War II, the Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran forced the abdication of his father Reza Shah and succession of Crown Prince Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. In 1953, Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh was overthrown in the 1953 Iranian coup d'état, which was carried out by the Iranian military under the support of the United States and Britain.[1]
In 1963, the Shah introduced the White Revolution, a series of reforms aimed at transforming Iran into a global power and modernizing the country by nationalizing key industries and land reform. As political unrest grew throughout Iran in the late 1970s,[2] the Shah fled Iran for exile in January 1979.[3] After formally abolishing the Iranian monarchy, Shia Islamist cleric Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini became the Supreme Leader of Iran. The former Shah later died in exile in Egypt in 1980 and is buried at the Al-Rifa'i Mosque.
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