A mummified body believed to be Reza Shah's was found in the vicinity of his former mausoleum site in Tehran
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Reza Shah
Reza Shah Pahlavi was Shah of Iran from 1925 to 1941 and founder of the Pahlavi dynasty. Originally an army officer, he became a politician, serving as minister of war and prime minister of Iran, and was elected shah following the deposition of Ahmad Shah, the last monarch of the Qajar dynasty.
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politics · Shah of Iran from 1925 to 1941 · politician · military personnel · also Reza Shah, Rezā Khan, Reza Shah Pahlavi, Rezā Shāh, Shah
Born 15 March 1878 · Died 26 July 1944 · Q182921
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2018· 1 entry
1959· 1 entry
The government of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Reza Shah Pahlavi's son and successor, announced that both "Persia" and "Iran" could officially be used interchangeably, nonetheless use of "Iran" continued to supplant "Pers
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1944· 2 entries
Died 1944-07-26.
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“The inhabitants of Tehran are invited to keep quiet.”
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1941· 2 entries
Resulted in those two powers becoming sudden allies in the fight against the Axis powers
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During the Second World War; he was succeeded by his eldest son, Mohammad Reza Shah
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1940· 2 entries
For spying on the UK and Winston Churchill on behalf of Adolf Hitler and Nazi Germany
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The total number of German citizens in Iran from technicians to spies was no more than one thousand
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1939· 1 entry
Hitler provided Iran with their German Scientific Library, which contained over 7,500 books on eugenics "to convince the Persians of the kinship between Germans and the Persians, the modern Aryans and the ancient Aryans"
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1938· 1 entry
Followed by the start of World War II shortly thereafter, prevented these projects from being realized
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1937· 1 entry
Won: Denmark (January 1937).
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1935· 5 entries
Won: Czechoslovakia (1935).
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Reza Shah asked foreign delegates and League of Nations to use the term Iran ("Land of the Aryans"), the endonym of the country, used by its native people, in formal correspondence
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The Ebne Sina Medical School opened first, adorned with calligraphy from Nezami's poems praising knowledge
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Reza Shah asked foreign delegates to use the term Iran, the historical name of the country, used by its native people, in formal correspondence
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A rebellion erupted in the Imam Reza Shrine in Mashhad
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1934· 3 entries
Won: Sweden (November 1934).
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Made an official state visit to Turkey and met Turkish President Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
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A law set heavy fines for cinemas, restaurant, and hotels that did not open their doors to both sexes
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1932· 2 entries
The Shah cancelled the agreement under which the Anglo-Persian Oil Company produced and exported Iran's oil
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And died under suspicious circumstances while in prison in September 1933
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1931· 1 entry
Reza Shah refused to allow Imperial Airways to fly in Persian airspace, instead giving the concession to German-owned Lufthansa Airlines
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1930· 1 entry
Hamid Hassan Mirza, was a British subject who spoke no Persian
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1927· 1 entry
And André Godard was appointed director of the archaeological service as a compromise
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1925· 3 entries
Career landmark: shah (1925–1941).
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His court minister, Teymourtash, suggested ending the French monopoly on excavation granted by Qajar government and appointing a Frenchman as the director of a new archaeological institute
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The constituent assembly deposed Ahmad Shah and amended Iran's 1906 constitution to allow the election of Reza Pahlavi as the Shah of Iran
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1923· 3 entries
Career landmark: Prime Minister of Iran (1923–1925).
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Reza Khan, then Sardar Sepah (Commander in Chief), visited Susa, the main site of French excavation in Iran
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She married Reza Shah in 1923 and accompanied him to his exile.
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1922· 1 entry
But divorced in 1923 and together they had a son:
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1917· 1 entry
Britain used Iran as the springboard to launch an expedition into Russia as part of their intervention in the Russian Civil War on the side of the White movement
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1916· 1 entry
And when Reza Khan became king, Queen Tadj ol-Molouk was his official wife
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1911· 1 entry
Gave a good account of himself in later campaigns and was promoted to First Lieutenant
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1905· 2 entries
Reza Shah's fourth and last wife, Esmat Dowlatshahi (1905–1995), was a member of the Qajar dynasty.
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The third wife of Reza Shah was Turan Amirsoleimani (1905–1994), who was from the Qajar dynasty.
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1903· 2 entries
When he was 25 years old, he is reported to have been guard and servant to the Dutch consul general Fridolin Marinus Knobel
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In a publication from 1926 speaks of him as the "gholam of His Presence the Dutch Consul" and noted his very keen interest in Western politics
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1896· 1 entry
Reza Shah's second wife was Nimtaj Ayromlou, later Tadj ol-Molouk (1896–1982).
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1895· 1 entry
Reza Shah married, for the first time, Maryam Savadkoohi, who was his cousin, in 1895.
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1882· 1 entry
His uncle in turn sent Reza to a family friend, Amir Tuman Kazim Khan, an officer in the Persian Cossack Brigade, in whose home he had a room of his own and a chance to study with Kazim Khan's children with the tutors wh
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1878· 1 entry
Born 1878-03-15.
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