At some point in the early 1980s, I was talking with a friend about the shah of Iran, that is, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, who ...

Shah Mohammad Reza was born into scandal and uprising—and his life somehow only got more dramatic from there. Though he was “The King of Kings,” in Iran, his inner life was anything but ...

Ever since he reluctantly divorced Queen Soraya in 1958, Mohammed Reza Pahlevi, Shah of Iran ... “Will you be the next Queen of Iran?” Replied Farah, with an air of someone who knows a ...

Iran also purchased 714 long-range Phoenix missiles –the most lethal air-to-air missile at the ... of people and injured thousands. Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi was overthrown in 1978 by the ...

Many people in Iran are fans of the former ruler because of his modernisation programme and his work on freedoms for women. His son, Mohammad Reza Shah, became Iran’s last shah before the 1979 ...

Iran's leadership appears well entrenched, but the son of the last Shah told Newsweek a focused ... Leon Neal/Getty Images His father, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, ruled with an iron fist, propped ...

Backed by Imam Khomeini, the students demanded the return of the Shah to Iran to face justice for his crimes, but the American government refused to negotiate. Subsequently, 52 American diplomats were ...

Iran and the United States held a fifth round of talks in Rome over Tehran’s rapidly advancing nuclear program. The ...

The movement was originated in the parliament. The movement was led by lawmaker Mohammad Mosaddegh, who later became prime minister. The British and Soviet troops invaded Iran in 1941, toppled Reza ...