Now 63, Pahlavi left Iran at age 17 for military school in the United States just before his cancer-stricken father, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, relinquished the throne on Jan. 16, 1979.

Iran was once one of the U.S.’s top allies in the Mideast under Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, who purchased American military weapons and allowed CIA technicians to run secret listening posts ...

The British removed Reza Shah and sent him into exile while Iran remained under Allied occupation until 1946. When the young Mohammad Reza replaced his father as the new Pahlavi king, the ...

Exiled Iranian Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi called on the international community to imagine "a world without the Islamic Republic" on Thursday in his Nowruz address to the Iranian people. "Imagine ...

(Reza Shah, bless your spirit!) in a nod to the Pahlavi monarch who modernized Iran and suppressed the clerical class of ayatollahs that now dominates the country. For the Islamic Republic ...