Reputations

Mohammed Reza Pahlavi: The Last Shah (1996x5)

: 18, 1996

Overthrown in 1979 in the revolution led by the Ayatollah Khomeini, the late Shah of Iran believed himself to be a visionary king leading his people on the path to what he called the "Great Civilisation". Others, however, have simply dismissed him as a Third-World dictator ousted by popular consent.