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The Imperial State of Iran also known as the Imperial State of Persia from 1925 to 1935, was a sovereign state in Western Asia which was bordered by Turkey and Iraq to the west, the Soviet Union to the north, Afghanistan and Pakistan to the east and shares a maritime border with Oman toward the south. With a population of ...

Mohammad Reza described his father in his book Mission for My Country as “one of the most frightening men” he had ever known, depicting Reza Khan as a dominating man with a violent temper. A tough, fierce, and very ambitious soldier who became the first Persian to command the elite Russian-trained Cossack Brigade, Reza Khan liked to kick subordinates in ...

Mohammad Reza Shah took the title Shahanshah (“King of Kings”) on 26 October 1967. He was the second and last monarch of the House of Pahlavi. Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi held several other titles, including that of Aryamehr (“Light of the Aryans”) and Bozorg Arteshtaran (“Commander-in-Chief”). His dream of what he referred to as a “Great Civilisation” (Persian: romanized: tamadon-e bozorg) in Iran led to a rapid industrial and ...

The rial was first introduced in 1798 as a coin worth 1,250 dinars or one-eighth of a toman. In 1825, the rial ceased to be issued, with the qiran subdivided into 20 shahi or 1,000 dinars and was worth one-tenth of a toman, being issued as part of a decimal system. The rial replaced the qiran at par in 1932, ...

This Boeing 707, named Shahin, belonged to the Royal Iranian Air Force, which Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi and Farah Pahlavi used for domestic and foreign travel. The color of this blue plane and its interior was luxuriously decorated.