For many Americans, President Jimmy Carter’s legacy is one of compassion ... Prior to the late 1970s, Iran was ruled by Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, a constitutional monarch who pursued rapid ...

1977 — Jimmy Carter welcomes Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the shah of Iran, to Washington, carrying on a strategic relationship that goes back several administrations. The scene in Washington is ...

(Atlanta News First) - In 1979, Jimmy Carter’s presidency was under siege ... On Jan. 16, 1979, the U.S.-supported government of the Shah of Iran fell, with Mohammad Reza Pahlavi fleeing the ...

To a great extent, Jimmy Carter’s presidency was defined ... September 1941: Reza Shah Pahlavi, in power in Iran since 1925 and aligned with Nazi Germany, is forced to abdicate the throne ...

On Nov. 4, 1979, Iranian students seized the U.S. Embassy in Tehran and took dozens of Americans hostage, beginning a 444-day crisis that would define the final year of Jimmy Carter’s presidency ...

Former US president Jimmy Carter, accompanied by his wife Rosalynn ... But the rights focus came to a head on Iran when Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi -- a Western ally whose autocratic rule by ...

History has been kind to Jimmy Carter ... in the chaos of Iran's Islamic Revolution. Iran and the United States had been on friendly terms while Mohammad Reza Pahlavi was the Shah of Iran ...

Jimmy Carter was a presidential paradox – a son ... He supported our ally, the shah of Iran, to the bitter end, and urged the shah's army to stand up to the Islamic regime that followed.