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  2. Iranian revolution - Wikipedia

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    On 9 January 1978, seminary students and other people demonstrated in the city, which was cracked down by the Shah's security forces who shot live ammunition to disperse the crowd when the peaceful demonstration turned violent. [112] Between 5–300 of the demonstrators were reportedly killed in the protest.

  3. Background and causes of the Iranian revolution - Wikipedia

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    Policies of the American government: long term policies created an image of the Shah as an American "puppet" with their high profile and the 1953 subversion of the government on his behalf while short-term policies proved as a catalyst to the revolution by pressuring the Shah to liberalize; and then finally the possible heightening of the ...

  4. 1953 Iranian coup d'état - Wikipedia

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    The 1953 Iranian coup d'état, known in Iran as the 28 Mordad coup d'état (Persian: کودتای ۲۸ مرداد), was the U.S.- and British-instigated, Iranian army-led overthrow of the Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh in favor of strengthening the autocratic rule of the shah, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, on 19 August 1953, with the objectives being to protect British oil interests in Iran after ...

  5. Mohammad Reza Pahlavi - Wikipedia

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    [209] In 1976, a pulp novel by Alan Williams was published in the United States under the title A Bullet for the Shah: All They Had To Do Was Kill the World's Most Powerful Man, whose sub-title reveals much about how the American people viewed the Shah at the time (the original British title was the more prosaic Shah-Mak). [208]

  6. Pahlavi Iran - Wikipedia

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    Mossadegh was then arrested by pro-Shah army forces. Following the overthrow of Mossadegh, Iran became steadfastly geopolitically aligned with the United States. During the presidential term of John F. Kennedy, the United States saw Iran as an important ally in the region due to perceiving it as a rare source of stability in the Middle East. [17]

  7. Pahlavi dynasty - Wikipedia

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    The Pahlavi dynasty (Persian: دودمان پهلوی) was the last Iranian royal dynasty that ruled for roughly 53 years between 1925 and 1979. The dynasty was founded by Reza Shah Pahlavi, a non-aristocratic Mazanderani soldier [1] in modern times, who took on the name of the Pahlavi language spoken in the pre-Islamic Sasanian Empire to strengthen his nationalist credentials.

  8. Human rights in the Imperial State of Iran - Wikipedia

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    Reza Shah, founder of the Pahlavi dynasty. The reign of Reza Shah was authoritarian and dictatorial at a time when authoritarian governments and dictatorships were common in the world and standard for the region. [8] Free press, workers' rights, and political expression were restricted and limited under Reza Shah.

  9. Reza Shah - Wikipedia

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    Reza Shah Pahlavi [3] [a] (15 March 1878 – 26 July 1944) was shah of Iran from 1925 to 1941 and founder of the Pahlavi dynasty.Originally a military officer, he became a politician, serving as minister of war and prime minister of Iran, and was elected shah following the deposition of the last monarch of the Qajar dynasty.

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