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Mar 15, 1878 Mazandaran Province, Iran Died on 26 Jul 1944 (aged 66)
Shah of Iran, Founder of the Imperial state of iran
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About Reza Shah
- Reza Shah Pahlavi (Persian: ??? ??? ??????; pronounced [re'z?? '???he pæhlæ'vi?]; 15 March 1878 – 26 July 1944), commonly known as Reza Shah, was the Shah of Iran from 15 December 1925 until he was forced to abdicate by the Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran on 16 September 1941. Two years after the 1921 Persian coup d'état, led by Zia'eddin Tabatabaee, Reza Pahlavi became Iran's prime minister.
- The appointment was backed by the compliant national assembly of Iran.
- In 1925 Reza Pahlavi was appointed as the legal monarch of Iran by decision of Iran's constituent assembly.
- The assembly deposed Ahmad Shah Qajar, the last Shah of the Qajar dynasty, and amended Iran’s 1906 constitution to allow selection of Reza Pahlavi.
- He founded the Pahlavi dynasty that lasted until overthrown in 1979 during the Iranian Revolution.
- Reza Shah introduced many social, economic, and political reforms during his reign, ultimately laying the foundation of the modern Iranian state. His legacy remains controversial to this day.
- His defenders assert that he was an essential modernizing force for Iran (whose international prominence had sharply declined during Qajar rule), while his detractors assert that his reign was often despotic, with his failure to modernize Iran's large peasant population eventually sowing the seeds for the Iranian Revolution nearly four decades later, which ended 2,500 years of Persian monarchy.
- Moreover, his insistence on ethnic nationalism and cultural unitarism, along with forced detribalization and sedentarization, resulted in the suppression of several ethnic and social groups.
- Albeit he was himself of Mazandarani descent, his government carried out an extensive policy of Persianization trying to create a single, united and largely homogeneous nation, similar to Atatürk's policy of Turkification.
