When he reversed a ban on women attending football games, a relative of mine compared him to Reza Shah, Iran's great 20th-century nation-builder.

当他撤销一条禁止妇女观看足球比赛的禁令时，我的一个亲戚甚至拿他同伊朗20世纪的立国者伟大的礼萨·汗相提并论。

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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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December 7 is known as "national students' day" in Iran, and it marks the anniversary of the 1953 slaying of three students by Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi's security forces, following a coup against populist Prime Minister Mohammed Mosadegh, earlier that year Eyewitnesses say hundreds of students have received threatening emails,this week, warning them not to participate in Monday's demonstrations.

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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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