It is unclear where the body is now. A military leader who launched a coup in 1921, Reza Shah was the founder of the Pahlavi dynasty which ruled Iran for over fifty years from 1925. Although he ...

In northern Iran, at Ramsar on the Caspian Sea, where he and his pretty Queen were vacationing, Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi ... but whose leaders await his downfall to grab power for themselves.

He escaped an assassination bid in June 1981 during his address in a mosque. The bomb was hidden inside a tape recorder that ...

The Shah’s departure left behind a leadership ... is naturally perceived as the leader of this return to Iran’s national ...

In attendance were top leaders of Iran's paramilitary Revolutionary ... overthrew the hereditary Pahlavi monarchy of the shah. Meanwhile, an Iranian official offered a new accounting of Sunday's ...

as well as the second-longest-serving Iranian leader of the last century after Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. Khamenei was born ...

However, the opposition of certain religious leaders to the shah’s reforms proved more dangerous. In Iran, unlike in most other parts of the Islamic world, religious leaders remained at the center of ...

While his predecessors in the Soviet Union worried that sharing their bomb with rogue regimes could set them loose to cause ...

Recently, Khamenei sparked controversy in India over remarks he made about the treatment of Indian Muslims. India reacted ...

In the image, Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei waves to his supporters ... I had on several occasions shared the story of how my family came to London: Under the Shah's regime, my father ...

Through centuries of foreign assimilation, Iran also retained its distinct cultural ... In 1501 Isma’il, the leader of the order, declared himself shah and established the Safavid empire. He relied ...

the supreme leader. The system was set up after Iran became an Islamic republic in 1979 when the ruling monarchy was overthrown and Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi was forced into exile.