Reza Khan took power in 1921 and became Reza Shah in 1925. He and his son Mohammad Reza Shah ruled until 1979, a period of rapid modernisation, oil nationalisation under Mosaddegh, the 1953 coup and growing opposition.
| Period | 1925–1979 |
|---|---|
| Covers | Reza Shah and Mohammad Reza Shah |
Pages in this era
- Reza Shah Pahlavi
- Reza Shah’s Reforms
- The Trans-Iranian Railway
- Why Persia Became “Iran” in 1935
- The Unveiling Decree of 1936 (Kashf-e Hijab)
- The Anglo-Soviet Invasion of Iran (1941)
- The Persian Corridor and the Tehran Conference
- The Iran Crisis of 1946
- Mohammad Reza Shah’s Early Reign (1941–1953)
- The Tudeh Party
- Mohammad Mosaddegh
- The Nationalisation of Iranian Oil (1951)
- The 1953 Coup in Iran
- Fazlollah Zahedi
- The 1954 Oil Consortium Agreement
- SAVAK: The Shah’s Security Service
- The White Revolution (1963)
- The Uprising of June 1963 and Khomeini’s Exile
- The Hoveyda Years (1965–1977)
- The 2,500-Year Celebration of the Persian Empire (1971)
- The Oil Boom of the 1970s
- Intellectuals and Opposition in the 1960s–70s
- Iran as a Regional Power under the Shah
- Women in Pahlavi Iran
- The Cinema Rex Fire (1978)
- Black Friday (September 1978)
- The Shah Leaves Iran (January 1979)
- Farah Pahlavi
- The Pahlavi Family
- Forough Farrokhzad and Modern Persian Poetry
- Iranian Cinema before 1979
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