The nineteen seventy-nine revolution forced Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi out of power and made Ayatollah Khomeini the country's leader.

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Iran's merchants were an important part of the opposition movement that swept Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi from power in 1979.

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"The moment of truth has arrived, " Reza Shah Pahlavi said at Washington's National Press Club.

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Pahlavi has lived in exile since 1979, when his father, Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi, was overthrown during the Islamic Revolution.

CNN: Fighting tears, shah's son calls crisis a 'moment of truth'

But it also had roots in a historic mistake: the 1953 British- and U.S.-inspired coup that toppled the elected Mohammed Mossadegh in 1953 in favor of Reza Shah Pahlavi.

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