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[[Image:HgfyuShah.jpg|right|thumb|Mohammad Reza Pahlavi]]
[[Image:HgfyuShah.jpg|right|thumb|Mohammad Reza Pahlavi]]
'''Mohammad Reza Pahlavi''' lived from October 16, 1919 to July 27, 1980. He is remembered as an American ally who aided in the defeat of [[Adolf Hitler]] and [[Nazi Germany]] and as a loyal [[Cold War]] ally, only to be deposed by the [[Carter administration]] and the [[Ayatollah Khomeini]], whose [[Islamic Republic of Iran]] went on to pursue [[nuclear weapons]] and threaten the [[United States]] and its allies.
'''Mohammad Reza Pahlavi''' lived from October 16, 1919 to July 27, 1980. He is remembered as an American ally who aided in the defeat of [[Adolf Hitler]] and [[Nazi Germany]] and as a loyal [[Cold War]] ally, only to be deposed by the [[Carter administration]] and the [[Ayatollah Khomeini]], whose [[Islamic Republic of Iran]] went on to pursue [[nuclear weapons]] and threaten the [[United States]] and its allies.
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi detained many [[Shia]] [[Islamist]] militants throughout his career and was pressured by the Carter administration to release them, which led to his downfall and the rise of the revolutionary Islamic Republic of Iran.
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi became the [[Shah]] of [[Iran]], after the abdication of his father [[Reza Shah Pahlavi]] in 1941.<ref>Tripartite Treaty of Alliance, 29 January 1942, Philip W. Ireland, ed., ''The Near East'' (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1942; 2d impression, 1945); also in ''The Middle East'', 1948 (London: Europa Publications, Ltd., 1948), pp. 29-30.</ref> In 1949 the Communist party of Iran known as the [[Tudeh party]] was banned after an assassination attempt on his life.
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi became the [[Shah]] of [[Iran]], after the abdication of his father [[Reza Shah Pahlavi]] in 1941.<ref>Tripartite Treaty of Alliance, 29 January 1942, Philip W. Ireland, ed., ''The Near East'' (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1942; 2d impression, 1945); also in ''The Middle East'', 1948 (London: Europa Publications, Ltd., 1948), pp. 29-30.</ref> In 1949 the Communist party of Iran known as the [[Tudeh party]] was banned after an assassination attempt on his life.