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One of the Empress Farah’s main initiatives was founding Pahlavi University, which was meant to improve the education of Iranian women, and was the first American style university in Iran; before then, Iranian universities had always been modeled on the French style. The Empress wrote in 1978 that her duties were:

07 Mohammadreza Pahlavi was the second and last monarch of the House of Pahlavi.

Mohammad Reza Pahlavi (26 October 1919 – 27 July 1980), also known as Mohammad Reza Shah, was the last Shah of Iran from 16 September 1941 until his overthrow by the Iranian Revolution on 11 February 1979.

From the late Sixties onward, Empress Farah Pahlavi of Iran amassed one of the world’s greatest collections of modern art for her country.

Karim Pasha was a friend of Farah Pahlavi who met her in France. He was born in Tabriz in 1305 and continued his postgraduate studies in the United States and continued to Ph.D. in Law and Political Science.