Mohammad Reza Pahlavi

His Imperial Majesty Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi (in Persian: ??????? ??? ?????) (October 26 1919 – July 27, 1980), was the last reigning Shah of Iran to date, ruling from 1941 until 1979. He is also known by the deferential title Aryamehr (meaning "Light of the Aryans").

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Mohammad Reza was born in Tehran, Iran to Reza Pahlavi, the Shah between 1925 and 1941, and his second wife Tadj ol-Molouk (1896 – 1982). Young Mohammad Reza attended Institute Le Rosey, a Swiss boarding school and the Military College in Tehran.

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His father, Reza Pahlavi, (1877–1944), had risen from the army ranks to defense minister(after a coup d'?tat which made Seyyed Zia'eddin Tabatabaee prime minister), and afterwards to prime minister, before being elected Shah by the National Assembly, (the Majlis), so starting the Pahlavi dynasty.

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