By Elaine Sciolino The fateful decision in 1979 to admit Mohammed Reza Pahlavi prompted the seizure of the American Embassy in Tehran and helped doom the Carter presidency. By David D. Kirkpatrick ...

Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi – the son of the last Shah of Iran and heir to the Peacock Throne – hasn’t been home in 45 years.

Do Ahir Shah’s references to Rishi Sunak mean more or less now, seeing as Sunak and the Tories got swept out of British Parliament since Shah filmed it? Would you believe both? The Gist ...

Iran's Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi was known for his love of flying. A qualified pilot himself, Pahlavi often wore the uniform of the Marshal of the Imperial Iranian Air Force (IIAF ...

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That otter leave a mark. A woman was left crying in a pool of her own blood after getting savaged by a gang of otters in Malaysia. The unidentified victim had reportedly been jogging through ...

She was the youngest daughter of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Shah of Iran, and his third wife, Farah Pahlavi – as such, she carried the title Imperial Highness Princess Leila Pahlavi. The Pahlavi ...

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He became Reza Shah and adopted the family name Pahlavi. Reza Shah undertook a radical modernization program patterned on that of Ataturk in Turky. But he made slower progress because Iran was poorer ...

She was crying too. On my head I had a black ... Some of the basic rights women had won during the regime of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi were revoked immediately. The Family Protection Act, which ...

Images and news reports shared online fuelled speculation that the body belonged to Reza Shah Pahlavi. His tomb, also in Shahr-e Ray, was destroyed after the 1979 revolution but his remains were ...