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n. - Shah of Iran who was deposed in 1979 by Islamic fundamentalists (1919-1980).

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  • I cannot imagine that the Shah’s son and heir Reza Pahlevi is helping matters for the demonstrators as he adopts their cause and puts himself forward as a potential...
  • Pahlevi ruled as an authoritarian monarch for the next 26 years, until he was overthrown in a popular revolt in 1979.
  • Shah Reza Pahlevi, whose strings were pulled from Downing Street and Washington, became a brutal dictator who gave the multinational oil companies access to Iranian...
  • The Pahlevi books show the word in the compound Bagh¶bakht, lit.
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