Iranian shah biography

The increase in oil prices fell precisely by the way and allowed him to carry out large -scale reforms. In the West, this was appreciated by calling the incident "the White Revolution of the Shah and the people." In Iran, the education system improved, new technologies were introduced, industrialization and land reform were carried out, new houses and hospitals were built, thousands of Iranian students studied in the USA and Europe.

Especially the standard of living in cities has grown. In the world they started talking about a new economic miracle. However, over time, the situation has changed. The left forces and Shiite radicals were dissatisfied with what was happening. Due to economic boom, a surge of corruption began among officials and family members of Shah. After the shah, suffering from cancer of the lymphatic system, went for treatment abroad, a popular uprising broke out in Tehran.

Power passed to Ayatollah Khomeini. In April, a referendum was held in Iran, at which 98 percent of citizens voted to transform Iran into Islamic Republic. He spent the rest of his life with his family in exile - in Egypt, Morocco, Mexico and in the Bahamas. Mohammed Reza Pahlavi died a year after the coup. Pahlavi entered the world history not only as the last Shah of Iran, but also as a real hero-lover.

According to contemporaries of the Iranian leader, he had a stormy personal life that could easily become the basis of a love novel. Mohammed Reza was married three times, and each new wife was younger than the previous one. Back at the officer school, he saw a womanizer. His friends recalled that for the girls he liked, he looked after very beautifully, without stinting for compliments and expensive gifts.

In the year, his father, Shah Reza Pekhlevi, decided that his family would be nice to relax with a senior Egyptian royal family. As a result, his son married Princess Favzia Fuad. The blue -eyed brunette was educated in Switzerland, dressed in Western fashion and behaved like a typical European girl of that time. However, the couple’s family life has not been completed from the very beginning: each of the spouses lived his own life.

Six years later, they parted. In this marriage, Shah had a daughter of Shahnaz. The second spouse of Pahlavi is called the greatest love of his life. That same evening he made her an offer.

On the engagement, the generous shah gave his beloved ring with a huge diamond of 22.37 carats. But a few years later they had to part-due to the lack of children. In the third marriage, Shah’s dream of the heirs still came true. At a reception at the Iranian embassy in Paris, he was presented to him a student of the Architectural University of Farah Diba. A few months later a wedding took place.

A dress for the bride was created by Yves Saint Laurent. A year later, the spouses were born the son of Reza Cyrus. In total, the headlights presented four children: two boys and two girls. In the year, she was crowned as Empress Iran and appropriated the title of Shakhban. Before her husband was overthrown, headlights were engaged in charity work, the development of medicine and the struggle for women's rights in Iran.

After the death of her husband, at the invitation of the American authorities, she settled in the United States and subsequently published the book “My Life with Shah”, which became a bestseller.