Download PDF by Gholam Reza Afkhami: The Life and Times of the Shah

By Gholam Reza Afkhami

ISBN-10: 0520253280

ISBN-13: 9780520253285

ISBN-10: 0520253299

ISBN-13: 9780520253292

This epic biography, a gripping insider's account, is a long-overdue chronicle of the lifestyles and occasions of Mohammad Reza Shah, who governed from 1941 to 1979 because the final Iranian monarch. Gholam Reza Afkhami makes use of his unheard of entry to a lot of individuals--including high-ranking figures within the shah's regime, participants of his kin, and participants of the opposition--to depict the unfolding of the shah's existence opposed to the forces and occasions that formed the advance of contemporary Iran. the 1st significant biography of the Shah in twenty-five years, this richly precise account offers a considerably new standpoint on key occasions in Iranian historical past, together with the 1979 revolution, U.S.-Iran relatives, and Iran's nuclear application. It additionally sheds new mild on what now drives political and cultural currents in a rustic on the middle of brand new so much confusing geopolitical dilemmas.

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11 Majid A`lam, the son of Amir A`lam and a lifelong friend, remembers the first time he met Mohammad Reza. A`lam was no older than six, attending a garden party organized to raise funds for the Red Lion and Sun Society, Iran’s version of the Red Cross. There were several spectacles for children, one of which was rams fighting. Little A`lam was fascinated watching two rams locking horns. Next to him he noticed a boy, younger than he, in a military uniform, his hand in the hand of a soldier, also watching the spectacle.

8 He believed in these experiences, and because he did, he would repeat them throughout his life in Iran and abroad, even when it clearly hurt his credibility. He inserted them in Answer to History, his last book written in exile, retelling them with undisputed sincerity to his interviewers for that book in the privacy of his room in Cairo a few months before his death: For me religious beliefs are the heart and soul of the spiritual life of all communities. Without this, all societies, however materially advanced, go astray.

From them, Mohammad Reza, Ashraf, and their older sister, Shams, learned the folk culture: Amir Arsalan of Rum; Rostam, the hero of the Shahnameh (The Book of Kings); Ali, the First Imam and commander of the faithful, wielding the Zu´lfaqar, the double-bladed sword; and Hussein, Lord of the Martyrs and the central figure in the pageant of Karbala. In these tales, time was supple, history nimble, nationalism and shiism blended. In them, Rostam, the protector of the kings in mythic, pre-Zoroastrian times, raised his sword in support of Ali against the enemies of Islam.

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