Difference between revisions of "Mohammad Reza Pahlavi"
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m (Reza Shah Pahlavi moved to Mohammad Reza Pahlavi: Nope, right shah after all. Wrong title.) |
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Revision as of 16:05, March 14, 2007
Reza Shah Pahlavi lived from October 16, 1919 to July 27, 1980. He was the shah of Iran, after the Soviet Union (who had invaded Iran in World War 2) pressured his father to abdicate in 1941. After the overthrow of the elected government in 1953, Pahlavi was one of two "twin pilars" in Persian Gulf region as part of a collective security arrangements with NATO during the Cold War. In 1955 the Shah was one of the signatories of the [[Baghdad which united the "northern tier" countries of Turkey, Iraq, Iran, and Pakistan, in a military alliance with Great Britain called the Baghdad Pact, and later the Central Treaty Organization (CENTO).
The Shah did not participate in the Arab oil embargos of 1967 and 1973, recognized Isreal, provided oil for US and British Mediterranean Fleets, detereed Iraq under Sadam Hussein from playing a role in the Yom Kippur War when he moved troops to the Iraqi border and gave covert support to the Kurds in Iraq which tied diverted the Iraqi Army.
