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A unique bronze statue of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi,Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the former king of Iran in his office in the white palace, Sa'd Abad Royal complex, Tehran.
Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi (1919-80), king of Iran (1941-1979), was born in Tehran on October 26, 1919, the eldest son of Reza Shah. He completed his primary school in Switzerland. He returned to Iran in 1935, and enrolled in a Tehran military school, from which he graduated in 1938. He was heir to his father, Reza Shah, and reached the throne on September 16, 1941, shortly before his 22nd birthday. He continued the reform policies of his father.
In 1967 he crowned himself as King of the Kings (Emperor of Iran)and his wife, Farah Diba, as Shahbanoo (Eperess), which caused discontentment amongst diffrent levels of society.
He fled to Egypt in 1978, during the early days of the Islamic revolution and died there in 1980. |
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