ASK THE GLOBE

The Boston Globe | May 27, 1989 | Copyright

Q. What was the given name of the Shah of Iran? Can you give a brief chronology of his final days? -- K.D., Quincy

A. Mohammed Reza Pahlevi became shah, or king, of Iran in 1941 when Great Britain and the Soviet Union put the squeeze on his pro-German father, Reza Shah Pahlevi, to keep Iranian oil fields from falling into Hitler's hands. Reza Shah's eldest son then occupied the so-called "peacock throne" until late in 1979, when he fled Iran amid mounting opposition to his ...

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