Pahlavi Iran
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The Imperial State of Iran, known in the Western world as the Imperial State of Persia until 1935 and commonly referred to as Pahlavi Iran, was the Iranian state under the rule of the Pahlavi dynasty.
Reza Shah Pahlavi, founder of the Pahlavi dynasty, in 1940
Reza Shah Pahlavi
Tehran Declaration, Joseph Stalin, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill in Tehran, 1943
Mohammed Reza Pahlavi and his wife Farah Diba upon his 1967 coronation as the shah of Iran. His wife was crowned as shahbanu.
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
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Mohammad Reza Pahlavi was the last Shah of Iran, reigning from 1941 to 1979. He succeeded his father Reza Shah and ruled the Imperial State of Iran until he was overthrown in the Islamic Revolution le
Pahlavi Iran
…neutrality during World War II, it was invaded and occupied by British and Soviet forces in 1941, forcing Reza Shah to abdicate in favor of his son, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. Following World War II, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi faced the Iran crisis of 1946, which ended with the withdrawal of Soviet forces from Iranian territory…
Official portrait, c. 1973
Crown Prince Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, c. 1926
Mohammad Reza entering Madrasa Nezam, a military school in Tehran, 1938
Photograph of the wedding ceremony of Crown Prince Mohammad Reza (right) and Princess Fawzia of Egypt at Abdeen Palace in Cairo, 1939