# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/mohammad-reza-pahlavi
# Generated: 2026-09-01T08:44:37.148Z

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name: "Mohammad Reza Pahlavi"
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description: "The last Shah of Iran ruled for 37 years, pouring billions into infrastructure and defence until his country became one of the fastest-growing economies on earth and fielded the world's fifth-strongest military. The 1979 revolution ended the monarchy and sent him into exile."
tagline: "Shah of Iran from 1941 to 1979"
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birthDate: "1919-10-26"
deathDate: "1980-07-27"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Mohammad Reza Pahlavi took the throne in 1941 after the Anglo-Soviet invasion forced his father's abdication. In 1953, the Iranian military — backed by the United Kingdom and the United States — overthrew prime minister Mohammad Mosaddegh, who had nationalized British-owned oil; foreign companies returned under the 1954 Consortium Agreement, and power centralized under the Shah. He launched the White Revolution in 1963: land redistribution, profit-sharing for workers, nuclear facilities, and nationalist economic policies that insulated new Iranian industries from foreign competition. Real GDP per capita nearly tripled between 1950 and 1979. He also ruled as an authoritarian, curtailing human rights and drawing mounting internal opposition. By the late 1970s — after the Cinema Rex fire and Jaleh Square massacre — his Western allies concluded at the 1979 Guadeloupe Conference that the monarchy could not be saved. He left Iran in January 1979; Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini abolished the monarchy and established the Islamic Republic. Pahlavi died in exile in Egypt in 1980.