Pahlavi Iran

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The Imperial State of Iran, known in the Western world as the Imperial State of Persia until 1935 and commonly referred to as Pahlavi Iran, was the Iranian state under the rule of the Pahlavi dynasty. It existed from the establishment of the dynasty in 1925 until its overthrow during the Iranian Revolution in 1979. In February 1921, Reza Khan, a brigadier general in the Persian Cossack Brigade, led a coup d'état against the ruling Qajar government, becoming the commander-in-chief of the country's armed forces. On 12 December 1925, Iran's Majles, convened as a constituent assembly, deposed the Qajar dynasty and proclaimed Reza Khan, then serving as prime minister, shah, thereby establishing the Pahlavi dynasty. Under his rule, Iran became a centralized unitary state and underwent a series of modernization reforms, including infrastructure development, the expansion of education, and the secularization of state institutions. In 1935, Reza Shah requested that foreign governments refer to the...

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