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The Shah

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by Abbas Milani


  Eisenhower, Dwight D., 206, 320; administration, 152, 176, 197, 199, 225–6, 228, 243, 245, 282, 302; American Atoms For Peace program, 332; Consortium Agreement and, 196–7, 199–200; doctrine, 225; Mossadeq and, 161, 172, 177–7, 182–3, 191, 193, 198; on the Shah’s “military obsession,” 237; Soviet-Iranian negotiations and, 218–9, 228–30

  Elghanian, Habib, 336

  Eliasi, Mahmood, 415–7

  Elizabeth I, Queen of England, 33

  Elizabeth II, Queen of England, 282, 287, 324, 326

  Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 284

  Entezam, Abdollah, 298–9, 301, 358

  Eriye, Morad, 188

  Escher, Alfred, 193

  Escudero, Stanley, 433

  Eslami, Mahin, 132–3

  Esna Asha’ri, 56

  estekhareh (religious ritual), 127

  Etela’at (newspaper), 75, 287, 290, 351, 389–90

  Etemad, Akbar, 332, 335

  Evin Prison, 313, 385

  Ezry, Meir, 259

  Fadeikin (KGB agent), 367

  Faisal, King of Iraq, 181, 203, 309

  Fakhr-al-Dowleh, 256

  Fakhrarai, Nasser, 131–4

  Fallaci, Oriana, 371

  Falsafi (cleric), 199

  Fanon, Franz, 186

  Farah, Queen,

  Faramarzi, Abdolrahman, 98

  Fardid, Ahmad, 383

  Fardust, Hussein, 35, 44, 80, 98, 112, 207–8, 358, 388, 413

  Farivar, Gholam Ali (National Front leader), 258

  Farmanfarmaian, Aziz, 341–2, 348

  Farmanfarmaian, Khodadad, 259, 266, 288, 313, 371

  Farouk, King of Egypt, 62–3, 72, 138, 204

  Farrah Izadi (divine aura), 11, 279

  Fateme (the Shah’s sister), 241, 315

  Fatemi, Hossein, 154, 182, 193

  Fath-Ali Shah, 29, 340

  fatwa, 57, 154, 244, 297

  Fawzia, Queen, 62–5, 73, 78, 80, 90–1, 110–1, 130, 133–4, 137–9, 155, 204n, 341, 344

  Feda’yan-e Islam (Martyrs of Islam), 101, 150, 186, 235, 296

  Feda’yan-e Khalq Iran (Martyrs of the People), 300

  firman (royal mandate), 179, 182, 184, 186–7, 259, 275–6, 350

  Firuz, Mozzafar, 124–5, 129

  Flandrin, Dr. Georges, 370

  Ford, Gerald, 331, 334–5, 383, 414, 418, 479n28

  Forkner, Dr., 157

  Foroughi, Zoka al-Mulk, 81–6, 97, 280

  Forouhar, Darius, 390

  Foucault, Michel, 407

  Freedom Movement, 272, 296, 378, 394–5

  Freemasonry, 143, 247, 387

  French Revolution, 295, 394, 411

  Frost, David, 83, 242, 413

  Galindo, Gabriel Lewis, 427

  Garabaghi, General Abbas, 403, 412–3

  Gass, Neville, 144

  Gass Golshai’yan (Supplemental Oil Agreement), 144–7

  Gazvini, Mohammad, 280

  George V, King of England, 31, 215

  Ghadimi, Hamid, 242

  Ghafari, Parvin, 133, 138

  Ghani, Cyrus, 468n2

  Ghani, Dr. Gassem, 138, 280, 468n2

  Gharani Affair, 207, 218–9

  Gharani, Valiollah, 182, 207–12, 218–9, 238, 258

  Ghiam-e Melli, 173–4

  Giscard d’Estaing, Valéry, 401, 411

  Goddard, André, 54, 329

  Goldwater, Barry, 331

  Golestan, Ebrahim, 224, 348, 353, 449n24, 464n12, 474n13

  Golestan Palace, 30–1, 321, 341, 343–4

  Golhak, 362

  Golshai’yan, Abbasgoli, 144

  Golshiri, Houshang, 341

  Gomi, Ayatollah Hussein, 57, 100–2

  Goreishi, Ahmad, 386, 448n25, 475n37

  Gotbzadeh, Sadeq, 394, 428

  Greene, Graham, 177, 427

  Grotovski, Andre, 335

  Group of Fifty-Three, 258

  Guadeloupe Summit, 401–2, 405

  Guevara, Che, 234–5

  Guilan province, 15

  habe kardan, legal practice of, 96

  Hadji, 288

  Haerizadeh, Abbol Hassan, 168

  Hafez Divan, 127

  Haile Selassie, Emperor, 325

  Hajir, Abdol-Hussein, 168

  Hakamizadeh, Ali Akbar, 56–7, 448n11

  Hakim, Ayatollah, 272

  Hakimi, Ebrahim, 117, 119, 137

  Hamid, Prince, 84–5, 146

  Hammarskjöld, Dag, 229

  haram (unclean), 244

  Harriman, Averell, 250

  Hart, Alan, 419

  Hashemi, General Manouchehr, 474n13, 475n43

  Hassan II, King of Morocco, 2, 4–5, 9, 282, 332, 418

  Hatefi, Rahman, 373n, 414

  Hearst, William Randolph, 199

  Heath, Edward, 329

  Heidegger, Martin, 383

  Hekmat, Aliasghar, 228

  Hekmat, Sardar Fakher, 130, 147

  Helms, Richard, 44, 333, 375, 386

  Henderson, Loy, 160, 163–5, 167–8, 172, 175, 183–5, 191–3, 198

  Herodotus, 68

  Herz, Martin, 175

  High Commissioner for Refugees, UN, 281

  Hillyer, Vincent, 241

  Hirohito, Emperor, 114, 282

  Hitler, Adolf, 59–60, 67, 69, 71–5, 78, 96, 105, 114, 122, 149, 231–2, 350

  Hitlerjugend (youth movement), 71, 232

  Hojat al-Islam, 291

  Holmes, Julius, 285, 289, 295, 298–9

  Homa airline, 282

  Homayoun (journal), 56–7

  Homayoun, Darius, 389

  Hope, Bob, 199

  Hormuz, Strait of, 326

  Hosseiniye Ershad, 378

  hostage crisis, 7, 421, 422–30

  Hoveyda, Amir Abbas, 3, 281, 310–1, 315, 379, 382, 384, 385n, 388–9, 391, 395, 408

  Hoveyda, Fereydoon, 12n, 329–30, 332, 343, 366, 448n25, 451n11, 466n58

  Humphrey, Hubert, 356

  Hurley, General Patrick, 106–7

  Hussein, King of Jordan, 5

  Hussein, Saddam, 318, 361, 390, 406

  Huyser, General Robert, 393, 413

  Imam Ali, 188

  Imam Hussein, 56, 235, 294

  Imam Reza Endowment, 161

  Imami, Jamal, 150

  Imamzadeh (shrines), 56n

  Imperial Army of Iran, 54–5

  International Bank of Reconstruction and Development (IBRD), 176

  Iran Novin Party, 301, 379

  Iran-e Bastan (magazine), 60

  Iranian air force, 76, 79, 315–6, 328, 331, 360, 392, 409, 416, 443n12

  Iranian Committee for the Defense of Freedom and Human Rights, 391

  Iranian National Bank (Melli), 93

  Iranian National Radio and Television, 319, 376, 407

  Iranian Writers Association, 390

  Iraq, 181, 188, 190, 203–6, 230, 237, 245, 272, 285, 301, 317–8, 328, 358–61, 377, 399, 402, 406

  Ironside, General Edmund, 18

  Isfahan, 80, 83, 92–5, 106, 133–5, 155–6, 180, 183, 335, 340, 342, 352, 379

  Islamic Revolution of 1979, 7–8, 57, 173–4, 206–8, 233, 269, 271–2, 338, 342, 354, 356, 358, 390, 406, 411–5, 435, 437, 439–41

  Islamic Revolutionary Council, 406, 429

  Jackson, C. D., 305–6

  Jahanbini, Kiumars, Colonel, 415–6, 443n9, 443n20

  Jahan-Nama (Window to the World), 345

  Jalaliye racetrack, 264, 293

  Jaleh Square, 289

  Jam, General Fereydoon, 74, 79–80, 93–5, 399, 402–3

  Jam, Mahmoud, 59, 62, 95

  Javadi, Ali Asghar Haj Seyyed, 390

  Jazani, Bijan, 312–3

  Johnson, Lyndon B., 212, 305, 330, 356

  Joint Chiefs of Staff, 166, 208, 396, 402–3

  Jordan, Dr. Samuel, 284

  Jordan, Hamilton, 426, 430

  Juliana, Queen of Holland, 287, 324

  Kabanov, Boris, 364

  Kabir, Amir, 76

  Kabiri, A
li, 415–6

  Kalardasht, 160, 179–80, 187, 189

  Kambaksh, Samad, 115

  Kani, Alinaghi, 379–80

  Karbala, Battle of, 56, 294

  Kashani, Ayatollah Abol-Qasem, 148–50, 153–4, 165–6, 169–70, 172–3, 178, 186–7, 193, 202

  Kashi, Nayeb Hussein, 16

  Kasravi, Ahmad, 101

  Kazeruni family, 94

  Kean, Dr. Benjamin, 422, 428

  Kelly, Grace, 199, 325

  Kennan, George, 121

  Kennedy, Jacqueline, 283

  Kennedy, John F.: administration, 233–4, 264, 269, 277, 282, 286, 289, 302, 304, 306, 314, 376, 439; Amini and, 320; assassination of, 305; criticism of the Shah, 236, 248, 250–2, 289–90, 304; invitation from the Shah to visit Iran, 294; letter from the Shah on his inauguration, 248–50; meeting with Bakhtiyar, 250–1; meeting with the Shah, 266–8, 281–7; Reporter’s note to, 177; the Shah’s criticism of, 294, 304–6, 320; Talbot Task Force and, 265

  Kennedy, Robert, 259, 268, 270, 304–5, 313

  Keyhan (newspaper), 98, 266, 366n, 414

  KGB, 207, 217, 229, 231, 315, 317, 357–8, 362–7

  Khamenei, Ayatollah Ali, 298, 441

  Khan, Aga Mohammad, 340

  Khan, Daoud, 328

  Khan, Khaybar, 261–2, 307, 467n16

  Khan, Mirza Kouchik, 17

  Khan’ali, Dr., 251–3

  Khandaniha (magazine), 98, 391

  Khatam, General Mohammad, 181, 242, 315–6

  Khayam, Omar, 68

  Khayami brothers, 313

  Khaz’al family, 119, 152

  Khaz’al, Sheikh, 17, 25, 55

  Khomeini, Ayatollah, Alam and, 298, 303, 378; on the American Embassy, 177n; Amini and, 273; Bakhtiyar and, 317; Celebration of 2500 Years of Iranian Monarchy and, 324; death of his son, 389; exile of, 354, 378, 406; Foucault on, 407; Freedom Movement and, 272; hostage crisis and, 424; Islamic Revolution of 1979 and, 377–98, 402, 406–7, 411, 413, 417–8, 438, 440; and land reform, 407; letter to the Shah, 291; on Mossadeq, 169; Mo’talefe (the Coalition) and, 296–7; Mottaheri on, 7; Nasser and, 301; nuclear program and, 335; opposition to Tehran University’s Faculty of Law and Political Science, 131; Pakravan and, 312; Qotbzadeh and, 270; reading of, 477n77; Reza Shah’s reforms and, 57; riots in favor of, 355; Safavi and, 101, 202; and U.S. SOFA agreement, 307

  Khorasan province, 17, 24, 59, 103, 122

  Khosravani, Keyvan, 344–5

  Khrushchev, Nikita, 229, 232, 234, 282, 367

  Khuzestan province, 17, 70, 152, 205, 245, 354

  Kia, General Hajj Ali, 267

  Kianouri, Noural-din, 134

  Kiarostami, Abbas, 348

  Kipling, Rudyard, 54, 85, 177

  Kish Island, 370, 400

  Kish project, 354

  Kissinger, Henry, 315, 327–9, 359–60, 370, 420–1, 429–30

  Kohut, Heinz, 50

  Komer, Robert, 294

  Korean War, 142, 145, 179

  Kraftwerk, 333

  Kurdistan, 116, 119, 360

  Kuzichkin, Vladimir, 362, 364, 366

  Lajevardi, Qassem, 336–7

  Lambton, Ann, 83, 91, 151, 202, 303

  Lamorisse, Albert, 348

  land reform, 116, 162, 192, 206, 243–44, 263, 267, 292, 390, 407, 437

  Laski, Harold, 379

  Le Rosey (Swiss boarding school), 43–52, 61, 91, 448n23

  League of Nations, 55

  Lenin, Vladimir, 20, 115, 235, 444n40

  Life (magazine), 90–1, 189, 197, 458n7

  Lilienthal, David, 262

  Love, Kennett, 176, 181, 185–6

  Luce, Claire Booth, 189

  Luce, Henry, 189

  lumpenproletariat, 186

  Macmillan, Harold, 229

  Mah Trading Company, 239

  Mahdavi, Fereydoon, 280, 371, 448n25, 452n28

  Mahmoud, Mahmoud, 445n51

  Majidi, Abdol-Majid, 382

  Makiye, Kanan, 474n26

  malekeh (Queen), 276

  Maleki, Khalil, 143, 238–9, 257, 378

  Manichaeism, 173, 236, 356

  Mansur, Ali, 73–4, 81, 281–2, 311

  Mansur, Hassan-Ali, 281–2, 301, 307

  Mao Zedong, 130, 142, 234, 359, 382

  Marble Palace, 311, 344

  Marcos, Ferdinand, 426

  Marcuse, Herbert, 186

  Mardom Party, 245, 303, 379

  Marenches, Comte de, 411

  Maria Gabriella, Princess, 215–6

  marja-e taglid (source of emulation), 297

  martyrdom, 56, 235, 294

  Marx, Karl, 187

  Marxism, 231, 234–5, 267, 271, 300, 312, 372, 375–6, 382–3, 391, 427, 435, 438

  Mason, Edward, 267, 288–9

  Masons and Masonic lodges, 143, 247, 387

  Matin-Daftary, Ahmad, 73

  Mattei, Enrico, 235–6

  Maybod (an agent), 240

  Mayer, Franz, 69, 106, 449n13

  Mazandaran province, 24, 34, 54, 95, 363

  McGhee, George, 152, 175

  Mecca, 288

  Mehbod (an agent), 240

  Mehrjui, Dariush, 347

  Melli (Iranian National Bank), 93

  Menasheri, David, 335

  Mercier, André, 43

  Mesbahzadeh, Dr. Mostafa, 98, 266

  Meshed, Iran, 56–8, 101, 110, 122, 180, 272, 313, 342, 350

  Meyer, Armin, 319–20, 327–8, 356, 475n35–6

  MI6, British, 172–4, 177, 209, 243, 363, 365, 371

  Mirza, Mohammad Hassan, 18

  Mirza, Mohammad Hussein, 84–5

  Mitrokhin, Vasili, 365

  Moazzami, Abdollah, 170

  Moazzami family, 247

  Mobutu, 426

  Moezzi, Captain, 5, 414

  Moghadam, General Nasser, 207, 313, 388, 403, 413, 474n4

  Mogharebi, General Ahmad, 362, 364–7

  Mohammad Ali Shah, 137

  Mohammad Reza Shah. See Pahlavi, Mohammad Reza Shah

  Moinian, Nosratollah, 232, 369, 391, 417

  Moise, Bob, 316

  Mokhtari, Mohmmad, 477n76

  monabatkari, 350

  Monshizadeh, Davud, 122

  Montazeri, Hussein Ali, 298, 385n

  Morocco, 2, 4–9, 50, 276n, 332, 418–9, 427, 443n12, 443n27

  Mossad, 244, 465n1

  Mossadeq, Mohammad, 76, 158, 197–201, 304, 358, 393, 399, 407; Britain and, 83, 99, 116–7, 142–3, 150–2, 159–78, 184–94; fall of, 160, 186, 189–94, 205, 223, 233, 257; isolation of, 151, 153, 169; Kashani and, 153–4, 165–6, 169, 178; Khomeini on, 169; movazeneye manfi (negative balance) and, 116; National Front and, 264, 272; nationalization of oil and, 141, 143–50, 329; Operation Ajax/Boot and, 170–89; referendum proposed by, 168–70, 178; resignation of, 153, 161, 163, 187; the Shah’s meeting with, 164–8

  Mo’talefe (the Coalition), 296

  Motashar al-Mulk (Persian tutor), 43

  Mottaheri, Ayatollah, 7, 378

  Mount Damavand, 11

  Mousavi, Mir-Hossein, 378

  movazeneye manfi (negative balance), 116

  Mozzafar al-Din Shah, 205, 350

  Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK), 235, 300

  Muslim Brotherhood (akhvan-al Muslemin), 202

  Mussolini, Benito, 20, 114, 444n40

  Nadir Shah, 32, 93

  Naficy, Moadeb, 43, 91

  Naghsh-e Jahan (map of the world), 340

  Najaf, Iraq, 188, 272, 378, 394, 406

  Najafi, Hussein, 396

  najes (unclean), 8

  Nakhjavan, General Ahmad, 79

  Nasir al-Din Shah, 13, 341, 350

  Nasiri, General Nematollah, 180–2, 184, 190, 207, 252, 312, 388, 391

  Nasr, Seyyed Hussein, 396

  Nasser, Gamal Abdel, 202, 205, 245, 294, 301, 306, 309, 321

  National Central Committee of Islamic Societies in Iran, 271

  National Front, 150–1, 153–4, 163, 168–70, 201, 238, 257–9, 263–7, 272,
299–300, 304, 378–91, 397–400

  National Iranian Shipping, 239–40

  National Security Council, 205–6, 228, 237, 265, 301, 359, 386, 439

  Nationalization Act (1951), 55–6, 119, 150–1, 169, 329

  nationalization of oil, 55–6, 119, 141–5, 148–51, 163, 173–5, 292

  Navisi, Yazdan, 415

  Nazism, 16, 59–60, 65, 67–77, 81, 102, 106, 114, 118, 194, 231, 247

  Neshat, General Ali, 417

  Niavaran Palace, 330, 341–51

  Niazmand, Reza, 332

  Nicolson, Harold, 30, 54–5, 85

  Nik-khah, Parviz, 376

  1919 Agreement, 16–20

  Nixon, Richard, 4, 200, 221, 236, 248, 310, 325, 327, 329–30, 331, 359, 383, 429, 466n58

  Nixon Doctrine, 327–9, 439

  Non-Aggression Pact, 69, 73, 225–9, 234

  nonaligned nations, 264

  Norman, Herman, 20

  No-Ruz (Persian New Year), 11, 221

  NPT (Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons), 333, 441

  nuclear weapons, 113, 234, 300n, 331–5, 363, 383, 440–1, 472n91

  Nuremberg Laws, 67

  Nuremburg Trials, 71

  Oakes, John, 345

  Omran Bank, 239–40, 387

  Operation Ajax/Boot, 170–89

  Operation Buccaneer, 152

  opium, 16, 156, 373, 409

  Order of the Garter, 215

  Organization for the Intellectual Development of Children, 319, 348

  Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), 235–6, 310, 319, 329, 361, 383

  Oveisi, General, 396

  Owen, David, 371

  Pahlavan, Amir Akram, 34

  Pahlavi, Farah, 217–8, 276, 283, 341, 344, 424

  Pahlavi, Mohammad Reza Shah: adenoids removed, 65; anointed Crown Prince, 27, 29–36; appendectomy, 157; assassination attempts on, 2, 37, 89, 132–5, 141, 229, 297, 311, 317, 367; asylum in Egypt, 430–1; birth, 11–7; birth of daughter Shahnaz, 73, 139; birth of son Reza, 274–6; childhood illnesses of, 39; childhood homes of, 12–3; clergy and, 99–102, 436; colonel in chief of the crack Pahlavi Regiment, 38; death of, 433; distrust of Western media, 72; divorce from Queen Fawzia, 139–40; divorce from Queen Soraya, 214–5; early childhood, 17, 22–39; eating habits and preferences, 8, 50; education, 34–8, 41–3, 49–50; in exile, 7–8, 257, 269, 299, 356–8, 367, 385, 411–33; fear of assassination, 8–9, 65, 161, 428; hospitality of, 4–5; isolation of, 3, 51, 310, 336, 371, 418–9; land reform and, 97, 162, 192, 243–44, 263, 292, 390, 436; at Le Rosey boarding school (Switzerland), 43–52, 61, 91; love of driving and automobiles, 2, 45, 135; lymphoma, 4, 371, 400, 409, 420–2, 424, 428, 431, 439; marital infidelities, 314–5, 349; marriage to Farah, 217–8; marriage to Fawzia, 62–5; marriage to Soraya, 155–7; meeting with JFK, 281–7; meeting with Queen Elizabeth II, 287; modernization and, 99, 192, 224, 268, 344, 377, 433, 436–37; mysticism and, 38–9, 127; nicknames and titles, 9, 27, 36, 128, 137, 177, 341; oath of office of, 85–8, 91–2; philanthropy and, 97–8; profiles of, 2234, 305–6, 377; relationship with his father, 14–5, 31, 37–8, 41–2, 49–50, 61–5, 74; religiosity of, 22, 61; sports and pastimes, 37, 47–8, 134, 158; three-pronged strategy for consolidating power, 97–100; timidity of, 47, 158, 277, 336; twenty-first birthday celebration of, 71; wealth of, 240, 242, 431–2. See also Ashraf, Princess (the Shah’s sister); Farah, Queen; Fateme (the Shah’s sister); Fawzia, Queen; Reza, Prince (the Shah’s son); Reza Shah/Reza Khan; Shahnaz, Princess (the Shah’s daughter); Shams, Princess (the Shah’s sister); Soraya, Queen; Taj ol Muluk (Queen Mother)

 

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