shah of iran

     

In 1953 the CIA helped expel Mohammad Mossadegh & restore this Iranian leader

Trivia about shah of iran

  • Temporarily exiled in '53, this Islamic ruler was permanently banished in '79
  • This monarch's death in 1980 solidified the control of the Ayatollah Khomeini
  • Swiss-educated & staunchly pro-Western, he ruled his Middle Eastern country from 1941 until his ouster in 1979
  • Ran Iran 1941-1979...ran away Jan 16. 1979...ran out of time 1980...
  • In 1968 Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, better known by this title, received an honorary doctorate
  • Though this world leader left his country on Jan. 16, 1979, he did not abdicate; Sadat would later grant him asylum
  • One of the CIA's early major operations was to help restore this Mideastern potentate to his throne in 1953
  • This man married his third wife in December of 1959

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