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

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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