Mohammad Reza Pahlavi

Mohammad Reza Pahlavi (Persian: محمد رضا پهلوی, October 16, 1919 – July 27, 1980) was the last Shah of Iran from the 1941 abdication of his father, until the Iranian Revolution in 1979. After the 1979 revolution, led by Ruhollah Khomeini the government of Iran changed into an Islamic republic.

He died at a Cairo hospital from chronic lymphocytic leukemia on July 27, 1980 at the age of 60.

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Signature of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
Mohammad Reza c. 1926
Crown Prince Mohammad Reza in 1939
A young Shah with his twin sister, Ashraf, in the 1940s
The Iranian and Egyptian imperial families after a wedding in Saadabad Palace, Tehran, 25 April 1939
Mohammad Reza entering Madrasa Nezam, a military school in Tehran, 1938
A young Mohammad Reza with Abdolhossein Teymourtash at the Institut Le Rosey in Lausanne, Switzerland, 1932
Photograph of the wedding ceremony of Crown Prince Mohammad Reza (right) and Princess Fawzia of Egypt at Abdeen Palace in Cairo, 1939
Pahlavi meeting with U.S. president Franklin D. Roosevelt during the Tehran Conference (1943), two years after his father's forced abdication during the Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran
Universal Newsreel on the Shah's 40th birthday, 1959