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.
Iranian Revolution
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The Iranian Revolution, also known as the Islamic Revolution, culminated in the overthrow of the Pahlavi dynasty in 1979. The revolution led to the replacement of the Imperial State of Iran by the Isl
Pahlavi Iran
…was the Iranian state under the rule of the Pahlavi dynasty. It existed from the establishment of the dynasty in 1925 until its overthrow during the Iranian Revolution in 1979, which ended Iran's over 2,500-year-old monarchy. In February 1921, Reza Khan, a brigadier general in the Persian Cossack Brigade, led a coup…
Mass demonstrations of people protesting against the Shah and the Pahlavi government on the day of Ashura on 11 December 1978 at College Bridge, Tehran
Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
Residents of Tehran participating in the demonstrations of 5 June 1963 with pictures of Ruhollah Khomeini in their hands
The Shah of Iran (left) meeting with members of the US government: Alfred Atherton, William Sullivan, Cyrus Vance, Jimmy Carter, and Zbigniew Brzezinski, 1977