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10 unusual facts about Reza Pahlavi


Ali-Akbar Davar

In commemorating Dāvar, Reza Pahlavi is said to have told to members of the Judiciary: "Don't ever think that you can become as good as Dāvar, by merely sitting in his chair."

Rumors spread that two days earlier Dāvar had been in private severely reprimanded and threatened by Reza Pahlavi.

Ali-Reza Pahlavi

Mahnaz Afkhami told the BBC World Service that Pahlavi and his family being forced into exile in 1979 was very "traumatic" for him and that he had experienced a "loss of identity" in exile.

Khosrow Golsorkhi

Famous for his leftist and revolutionary poetry, Golsorkhi was convicted along with his friend, Keramat Daneshian, a director, of plotting to kidnap the Shah of Iran's son.

Leila Pahlavi

The immediate Iranian royal family now consists of the empress, Farah Pahlavi; a son, Reza; a daughter, Farahnaz; and the princess's half sister, Shahnaz.

On 4 January 2011, her brother Ali-Reza Pahlavi was found dead at his home in Boston, Massachusetts from an apparent suicide.

Shah Reza II Pahlavi of Iran

She was the fourth child of the Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and the Empress Farah Pahlavi.

Panther Lazer

Delivered in August 1974, the car was promptly returned to Panther's UK premises, where it languished for a couple of years before being sold to the Crown Prince of Iran, Reza Pahlavi, as he was still a teenager.

Reza Pahlavi

In 1980, at the start of the Iran–Iraq War, Reza Pahlavi, a highly trained fighter pilot, wrote to General Valiollah Fallahi, Chief Commander of the Armed Forces of the Islamic Republic, offering to fight in the Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force.


International isolation

The concept "falling off the map" was used by political writer V. S. Naipaul in reference to the growing international isolation of the Islamic Republic of Iran after being in the limelight during the times of Shah Rezā Pahlavi and during the first years of the Revolution.