* April 25 – Reza Khan is crowned Shah of Iran under the name " Pahlevi ".

* October 26 – In Persia, Reza Khan becomes Ahmad Shah Qajar's prime minister.

Notable former residents of Rolle, and alumni of Le Rosey, include: Aga Khan IV, King Albert II of Belgium, King Baudouin I of Belgium, King Fuad II of Egypt, King Ntare V of Burundi, Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavī, and Prince Rainier III of Monaco.

In 1925, the supporters of Reza Khan in the Majlis, proposed legislation to dissolve the Qajar dynasty and appoint Reza Khan the new Shah.

She remarried in 1879 and left Reza to the care of his uncle, who, in turn, sent Reza away to his friend Amir Tuman Kazim Khan, an army officer.

" On February 21, 1921, Reza Khan staged a coup d ' état, together with Seyyed Zia ' eddin Tabatabaee, to get control over a country which had practically no functioning central government at the time.

Commanding a Russian-trained Cossack Brigade, Reza Khan marched his troops from Qazvin, 150 kilometres to the west of Tehran, and seized key parts of the capital city almost without opposition and forced the government to resign.

While Reza Khan and his Cossack brigade were securing Tehran, the Persian envoy was in Moscow negotiating a treaty with the Bolsheviks for the removal of Soviet troops from Persia.

On October 26, 1923, Reza Khan got control of Iran after a long period of efforts toward restoring the previous Qajar monarchy, and the young Ahmad Shah Qajar fled to exile in Europe, where he preferred to stay.

" Reza Khan made Iran out of nothing ," they say and, knowing Persia and Persians, they insist that force was the only way.

The Iran Club squad consisted of Karim Zandi, Khan Sardar brothers, Amir-Aslani brothers, Mohammad Ali Shokooh, Azizollah Afkkhami, Reza Kalantar, Sheybani, Hasan Meftah, Herand, Galustyan, Khajeh-Noori, Reza Rabizadeh, Hambarson, Ashrafi.

The most important ceremonies held in the Palace during the Pahlavi era were the coronation of Reza Khan ( r. 1925-1941 ) in Takht-e Marmar and the coronation of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi ( r. 1941-deposed 1979 ) in the Museum Hall.

The last coronation to be held at Takht-e-Marmar was the coronation of, the self-proclaimed King, Reza Khan Pahlavi in 1925.

In 1921, Reza Khan, an officer in Iran's Persian Cossack Brigade, used his troops to support a successful coup against the government of the Qajar dynasty.

In 1925, a specially convened assembly deposed Ahmad Shah Qajar, the last ruler of the Qajar dynasty, and named Reza Khan, who earlier had adopted the surname Pahlavi, as the new shah.

In February 1921, Reza Khan, commander of the Persian Cossack Brigade, staged a coup d ' état, becoming the effective ruler of Iran.

Reza Khan induced the Majles to depose Ahmad Shah in October 1925, and to exclude the Qajar dynasty permanently.

In that year the official exonym was equated with the ancient endonym, Iran, per Reza Shah Pahlavi's request.

Sayyed Ruhollah Musavi Khomeini (,, 22 September 1902 – 3 June 1989 ) was an Iranian religious leader and politician, and leader of the 1979 Iranian Revolution which saw the overthrow of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the Shah of Iran.

Reza's son Muhammad Reza Shah, instituted a " White Revolution ", which was a further challenge to the ulama.

On 5 June 1963, ( 15 of Khordad ), two days after this public denunciation of the Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Khomeini was arrested.

In early 1979, Iran's Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi was overthrown by the Islamic Revolution, thus giving way to an Islamic republic led by the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.

The opening title sequence was created by noted television director Reza S. Badiyi.

In the 1920s and 30s, the city essentially was rebuilt from scratch under the rule of the Shah of Iran, Reza Shah Pahlavi.

In the 1960s and 70s Tehran was rapidly developing under the reign of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.

One of the most famous political uses of cassette tapes was the dissemination of sermons by the Ayatollah Khomeini throughout Iran before the 1979 Iranian Revolution, in which Khomeini urged the overthrow of the regime of the Shah, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.

In September 1941, Reza Shah Pahlavi was forced to abdicate his throne.

He was replaced by his son Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi.

Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi was willing to declare war on the Axis powers.

Mohammed Reza Beg was a high-ranking official to the Persian governor of the Yerevan province ( Armenia ).

Former Irving City Council member Mayor Herbert Gears was elected to a three-year term in June, 2005 and re-elected in May, 2008 defeating Roland Jeter and Rigo Reza.

The following year he was commissioned by Mohammad Reza Pahlavi ( the Shah of Iran ), to compose Nuits, which Xenakis dedicated to political prisoners in protest at the Shah ’ s atrocities.

After establishing control of Calicut, Hyder departed, but was forced to return several months later when the Nairs rebelled against the rule of his lieutenant, Reza Sahib.

The extensive inscription bands of calligraphy and arabesque on most of the major buildings where carefully planned and executed by Ali Reza Abbasi, who was appointed head of the royal library and Master calligrapher at the Shah's court in 1598, while Shaykh Bahai oversaw the construction projects.

It is believed that Reza Shah Pahlavi's grandmother was a Georgian ( from Mazandaran ).

She was married to actor Vic Morrow – with whom she had two daughters, actress Jennifer Jason Leigh and Carrie Ann Morrow – from 1957 to 1964, and to Iranian television director Reza Badiyi – with whom she had another daughter, actress Mina Badie, from 1968 to 1985.

Khatami's brother, Dr. Mohammad Reza Khatami, was elected as Tehran's first member of parliament in the 6th term of Majlis, during which he served as deputy speaker of the parliament.

On 8 October, after the occupation of Persia by the Allies and after the new Persian government of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi severed diplomatic relations with the Axis powers, al-Husseini was taken under Italian protection and conveyed through Turkey to Axis Europe in an operation organized by Italian Military Intelligence ( Servizio Informazioni Militari, or SIM ).

SAVAK ( Persian: ساواک, short for ساز ِ مان ِ اطلاعات و َ امنی َ ت ِ ک ِ شو َ ر Sāzemān-e Ettelā ' āt va Amniyat-e Keshvar, Organisation of Intelligence and National Security ) was the secret police, domestic security and intelligence service established by Iran's Mohammad Reza Shah with the help of the United States ' Central Intelligence Agency ( the CIA ).

After removing the populist regime of Mohammad Mosaddeq ( which was originally focused on nationalizing Iran's oil industry but also set out to weaken the Shah's power ) from power on 19 August 1953, in a coup, the monarch, Mohammad Reza Shah, established an intelligence service with police powers.

A turning point in SAVAK's reputation for ruthless brutality was reportedly an attack on a gendarmerie post in the Caspian village of Siahkal by a small band of armed Marxists in February 1971, although it is also reported to have tortured to death a Shia cleric, Ayatollah Muhammad Reza Sa ' idi, in 1970.

That of Iran was abolished by the Islamic revolution of 1979 overthrowing Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.