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

VOA: special.2009.02.07

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

VOA: standard.2010.07.20

(Sound) One well-known young opposition activist, Mohammed Reza Jalaiepour, who was later arrested by the government, placed this emotional confession about why he joined the opposition on Mousavi's Facebook Web site.

VOA: standard.2009.11.14

In 1980, Mohammed Reza Pahlavi died of cancer while in exile in Egypt.

CNN: Monday,

When Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi of Iran left power in 1979, he was already suffering from advanced lymphatic cancer which killed him in 1980.

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Interpol has confirmed that the passports, which their owners reported stolen, were used by two Iranian citizens, 29-year-old Seyed Mohammed Reza Delavar and 18-year-old Pouria Nourmohammadi.

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