Reza Shah Pahlavi
Reza Shah Pahlavi (b. Reza Khan; March 16, 1878 – July 26, 1944)[1] was the Shah of Iran from 1925 to 1941, when he abdicated (declared that was no longer king) and passed the position on to his son, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. In 1921, he and Seyed Ziya-al-Din Tabatabaei launched a coup d'état overthrowing the Qajar dynasty. Reza Shāh then became minister of war, and eventually became king, which started the Pahlavi dynasty. Because of his friendship with Adolf Hitler, the British suspected that Nazi Germany was conspiring with Iran and ordered Reza Shāh to abdicate, which he then did.[2]
Reza Shah was originally Reza Khan, a military officer of the Persian Cossack Brigade who could not read, and taught himself.[3]
Reza Shah Pahlavi Media
Signature of Reza Shah
Museum of Reza Shah Pahlavi, the house where he was born, Savadkuh, Mazandaran
Reza Pahlavi behind a machine gun
Reza Pahlavi portrait during his time as war minister
Reza Khan behind Ahmad Shah Qajar, with Abdol-Hossein Farman Farma to the left of Reza Khan
Military parade in Tehran on the occasion of the coronation of Reza Shah, 1926
Coronation of Reza Shah Pahlavi
Reza Shah at the opening ceremony of the University of Tehran's Faculty of Medicine.
Reza Shah opening a railway station
Reza Shah addressing Iranian parliament, 1939
References
- ↑ "Reza Shah Pahlavi", Encyclopædia Britannica
- ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2009-02-01. Retrieved 2009-02-01.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ↑ Gheissari, A. & Nasr, V. 2006. Democracy in Iran: History and the Quest for Liberty. Oxford: Oxford University Press.