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Image courtesy of the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum, Audio/Visual Archives Collectio…
Image courtesy of the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum, Audio/Visual Archives Collection, Photograph No. D527-9.
Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi
Image courtesy of the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum, Audio/Visual Archives Collectio…
Image courtesy of the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum, Audio/Visual Archives Collection, Photograph No. D527-9.

Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi

Iran, 1919 - 1980
The Shah of Iran was the last monarch in the country. He ruled from 1941 until the revolution in 1979. He was succeeded by Muslim cleric Ruhollah Khomeini as the Supreme Leader of Iran when the monarchy was formally abolished in the 1979 revolution.
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