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Workers opposed Amini because austerity caused rising unemployment; intellectuals and students hated him because he suspended Parliament and ruled by decree; wealthy businessmen and many government officials fought his vigorous anticorruption efforts; large landowners tried to scuttle his land-reform program. Even Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi was cool to Amini, because the Premier's family was a member of the ruling dynasty that the Shah's father overthrew in 1921. Faced by such adversaries, the surprise was not that Amini finally resigned, but that he had survived so long...
Iran's Tiara. Two of the world's youngest queens won their life of privilege for the oldest of dynastic reasons-the ability to bear an heir. By the constitutions of vast Iran and tiny Jordan respectively, the dynasties of Reza Pahlevi and the House of the Hashemites may continue only so long as the monarch has a son to succeed...
...tell you quite bluntly that this king business has given me nothing personally but headaches," said Shah Mo hammed Reza Pahlevi of Iran to the Na tional Press Club. "During the whole of these 20 years of my reign, I have continually lived under the strain and stress of my duties." In the past two decades, said the Shah, he had been the target of several assassination attempts, been vilified by "elements of international sub version," turned over 90% of his private fortune to be used "for the benefit of my people." As he moved from Washing...
Majid Tehranian 3G, who recently accused the Iranian government of ruthlessly supressing freedom of speech, press, and assembly, characterized Shah Riza Pahlevi's regime as "one of the most corrupt and tyrannical in our history." He has made these statements as "a leader" of the Confederation of Iranian Students, an organization of 6000 Iranians in America...
...even jazzier the next night, when Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi of Iran and his 23-year-old Empress Farah arrived at the White House for a magnificent dinner at the beginning of a state visit to the U.S. As their motorcade drove through the White House's main gates. 100 uniformed, white-gloved Marines snapped to attention, their bayonets gleaming in the rainy night. And when the royal Iranians stepped out on the North Portico to greet the President and First Lady, the society reporters murmured audibly. The Shah was resplendent in a swirling cloak and a looping crescent...