| − | [[File:Shahstalinmolotov.jpg|right|thumb|300px|Rez Shah Pahlavi flanked by [[Soviet]] General Secretary [[Joseph Stalin]] (left) Foreign Minister of the [[USSR]] [[Vyacheslav Molotov]] (right) at the [[Tehran Conference]], 1943.]] | + | [[File:Shahstalinmolotov.jpg|right|thumb|300px|Reza Shah Pahlavi flanked by [[Soviet]] General Secretary [[Joseph Stalin]] (left) Foreign Minister of the [[USSR]] [[Vyacheslav Molotov]] (right) at the [[Tehran Conference]], 1943.]] |
| | 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> | | 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> |