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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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The agency was involved in a coup in Iran in 1953, and its support for the unpopular regime of Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi who was overthrown in 1979 was condemned for years by the ruling mullahs in Tehran, to great effect.
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"The moment of truth has arrived, " Reza Shah Pahlavi said at Washington's National Press Club.
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History, however, shows that Reza Shah was neither a fascist nor an anti-Semite.
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Pahlavi has lived in exile since 1979, when his father, Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi, was overthrown during the Islamic Revolution.
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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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Left in charge was Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi.
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After World War II, according to the book, the younger Schwarzkopf traveled to Iran to be with his father, who was helping advise the training of the country's police force under the shah, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.
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In 1933 the new Iranian king, Reza Shah (a populist constitutional revolution soldier who challenged the authority of the Mullahs), challenged the British method of Iranian oil misappropriation: he declared that the British could no longer get away with taking Iranian oil without paying Iran its fair share.
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In short, powerful sentences, Mr Abdolah draws a poignant and colourful picture of a humble life set against Iran's recent history: Reza Khan and the last Shah, the 1979 revolution, war with Iraq and fundamentalist terror.
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