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Pahlavi, Mohammad Reza Shah, writings of: Answer to History, 4, 112, 128, 294–5, 312, 385, 387, 431; Mission for My Country, 14–5, 20, 61, 180, 301
Pahlavi Foundation, 240–1, 245, 252, 387
Pahlavi hat, 57
Pahlavi Regiment, 38
Pakravan, Hassan, 122, 143, 207, 271, 312–3
Panama, 270, 426–30
Pan-Arabism, 205
Pan-Iranist, 185, 217
Pan-Iranist Party, 399
Parcham-e Islam (Flag of Islam), 132–3
Parker, Richard, 5–6
Parsa, Farouk Ru, 374
Peacock Throne, 29–32, 85, 92, 100, 278, 343, 427
Percy, Senator Charles, 422, 479n44
Perron, Ernest, 49–50, 61, 91, 148, 154, 158, 172, 194–5, 197, 223–4
Persepolis, 68, 322–3, 339, 351
Pessiyan (nationalist colonel), 17
Pezeshkpour, Mohsen, 399
Philip, Prince, 324–5
Pirnia, Dr. Lucy, 415
Pishevari, Jafar, 124–8
pishmargah (Kurdish fighters), 360
Plan Organization, 196, 239, 247, 259–60, 350, 354, 383, 466n55
Podgorny, Nikolai, 325
Pompidou, Georges, 325
Pope, Arthur, 54
Pope John XXIII, 216
Pope Pius XII, 215
Precht, Henri, 387, 475n36
pre-Islamic era, 11, 25, 33, 99, 324, 339, 351, 353
Profiles in Courage (Kennedy), 284
Progressive Circle, 281–2, 301
Qajar, Hushang Davalu, 373, 478n84
Qajar dynasty, 16, 19, 23, 26–7, 29, 84–5, 146, 164, 256, 340–3, 350
Qashgai brothers, 228, 298, 304
Qashgai tribes, 69
Qavam, Ahmad (Qavam-al Saltaneh), 17, 23–4, 69, 102–6, 117–31, 135–8, 141, 146, 153–4, 162, 165, 256, 258, 270
Qavam, Ali, 59
Qavam, Ebrahim, 95
Qavam, Taj, 59
Qazvin, 112, 117
Qom, 56n, 101, 110, 168, 271–3, 293, 295–7, 354, 388, 390, 401, 409, 469n50
Qotb, Seyyed, 202
Qotbi, Reza, 217, 319, 396, 407
Qotbzadeh, Sadeq, 269–70
Queen Mother. See Taj ol Muluk (Queen Mother)
Qu’ran, 13, 33, 127, 218, 240, 272, 291, 296, 469n31
Radio Tehran, 7
Radmanesh, Reza, 317
Rafsanjani, Ali Akbar Hashemi, 298, 385n
Rahnama, Zeyanl-Abedin, 100, 473n105
Rahnavard, Zahra, 378
Rainier III, Prince, 325
Ramsar, 181, 195
Rasht, 182, 208
Rastakhiz (Resurgence) Party, 381
Razmara, General Haj Ali, 126, 132, 147–50, 157, 202
Red Army, 79, 84, 112–3, 126–7
Regency Council, 164, 304, 417–8
Reporter, Shapour, 172, 177, 209, 211, 243, 371, 459n24, 476n7
Reza, Abdul, 147, 213
Reza, Ali, 146–7, 164, 198, 212
Reza, Gholam, 164
Reza, Prince (the Shah’s son), 274–6
Reza Shah/Reza Kahn: abdication of, 58, 82–8, 96, 112; Annual Report and, 71–2; architecture and, 343–4; BBC programs critical of, 80–1; Britain and, 54–56, 104, 107–8; coronation of, 13, 27, 29–36; Crown Jewels and, 93–4, 322; death and burial of, 109–10; in exile, 58, 74, 83, 94, 108–9, 112; on Fakhr al-Dowleh, 256; Iran- e Bastan and, 60; in Johannesburg, 109, 117; name of, 445n51; “Napoleon legend” and, 108; reforms of, 53–8, 99–100, 102, 128, 247–8, 376, 446n34; relationship with his son, 14–5, 31, 37–8, 41–2, 49–50, 61–5, 74; wealth of, 63, 83, 94–8; World War II and, 67–78
Rezai, Ali, 397, 467n25–6
Rezai, Mahmood, 467n25
Richard I, King of England, 215
Rockefeller, David, 421, 423, 429
Rockefeller, Nelson, 2
Rockefeller family, 414, 427
Rokne do, 122, 209
Roosevelt, Franklin D., 68, 76–8, 81, 106–7, 112–4, 161
Roosevelt, Kermit (“Kim”), 160–1, 171, 175, 177, 179, 183, 186, 193–4, 250, 309–11, 316, 358–9, 459n28
Roozbeh, Khosrow, 222
Rostow, Walt, 314
Rouhani, Fuad, 236
Rountree, William, 209–11
Royal Air Force, 157, 303
Royal Council, 214
Royal Navy, 84–5, 324
Royal Properties, 97, 302
Royo, Aristides, 427–9
Rusk, Dean, 327
Sa’ad Abad Palace, 80, 96, 110, 343–4, 417
Saba, Abolhasan, 341
Saberi, Abbas, 357–8, 474n13
Saberi, Roshanak, 357
Sabeti, Parviz, 3, 311, 375–6, 395–6, 465n4, 475n28
Sackville-West, Vita, 30–2, 54
Sadat, Anwar al-, 4, 9, 309, 382, 410, 414, 418, 425, 430–1
Sadchikov, Ivan, 121
Sa’di, 284
Sadighi, Gholam Hussein, 184–5, 398–400, 402
Saed, Mohammad, 81–2, 84, 144, 202
Safavi, Navvab, 101, 187, 202, 296
Safavian, Dr. Abbas, 370
Safavid dynasty, 27, 33, 340
Saffari, Bijan, 344
Sahebgraniyeh Palace, 341, 343, 345, 350
Saidi, Abolghassem, 347
Sajjadi, Mr., 221
Saleh, Alahyar, 163, 170, 247
Saleh, Dr. Jahanshah, 274
Salinger, Pierre, 305
Saltaneh, Qavam al-. See Qavam, Ahmad
Samii, Mehdi, 240, 261, 280–1, 313, 350, 371, 379–82, 442n5, 467n16, 471n48, 476n39, 477n71
Sanatizadeh, Homayoun, 386
Sanjabi, Karim, 390, 398, 458n144
SAVAK (secret police), 3, 122, 207, 209, 223, 230–1, 253, 270–1, 296, 300–2, 311–3, 316–20, 357–66, 372–6, 388–9, 395–6, 448n25
Schirach, Baldur von, 71
Schmidt, Helmut, 401
Schulze-Holthus, Berthold, 69
Schwarzkopf, General Norman, Sr., 179
Sepahbodi, Anoushirvan, 50
Sepahbodi, Farhad, 8–9, 443n27
Sepah-e Danesh (army of knowledge), 232
Sepehri, Sohrab, 347
Sevigny, Charles, 348
Sha’ban “the brainless one,” 197, 461n109
Shadman, Fakhraddin, 469n51
Shafa, Shojaedeen, 284, 324, 396, 478n84
Shah Abbas, 33, 340, 342
Shah and People Revolution, 290, 292, 376
Shah and the Ayatollah: Iranian Mythology and Islamic Revolution, The (Hoveyda), 12n
Shahbanou, title of, 276–7, 314
Shahbaz (royal plane), 415
Shahgoli, Manouchehr, 476n35
Shahnameh (Ferdowsi), 11–2, 12n, 114, 217, 346, 443n1
Shahnaz, Princess (the Shah’s daughter), 73, 80, 139, 200, 204, 212, 217, 269, 276, 288, 432
Shahrestani, Ayatollah, 188
Shahri, Jafar, 13
Shahriar, Prince, 426
Shahriyari, Abbas, 317
Shahrokh, Bahram, 81, 194–5, 197
Shahyad Monument, 338, 351, 353–4
Shakespeare, William, 23, 84, 88, 171–2, 209, 403, 413, 451n90
Shams, Princess (the Shah’s sister), 14, 34, 49, 59, 80, 155–7, 223, 241–2, 336, 349, 465n34
Shamsabadi, Reza, 311
sharia law, 293, 394
Shariati, Ali, 378
Shariat-Madari, Ayatollah, 273, 298, 387–8, 390, 392, 406
Sharif-Emami, Ja’far, 241, 247, 251–3, 301, 387–9, 392, 395–6
Shatt al Arab, 361n
Shaw, George Bernard, 91
Sheikh Lotfallah mosque, 353
Shell Oil Company, 116, 196, 420
Sherkate-e Jangalat (Forests Company), 54
Shiism, 8, 12–3, 32–3, 56–8, 62–3, 215–6, 235, 241, 244–5, 271–2, 294–8, 378–80, 394, 406
Siahkal Incident, 300
Sinclair Oil, 102, 116
Small Tomb, 326
S
OFA. See Status of Forces Agreement.
Soraya, Queen, 155–9, 166, 180–1, 188–9, 196, 198–200, 203, 212–6, 239, 259, 344, 351, 423, 430–1, 456n63, 459n11
Spanish Civil War, 234
Spanish flu, 16–7
Stalin, Joseph, 69, 96, 106, 112–6, 118, 120, 122–3, 125–8, 130, 142, 183, 224–5, 234, 382
Standard Oil, 76, 102
Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA), 307
steel mills, 67, 99, 300, 320
Stevens, Sir Roger, 203, 211, 303
Suez Crisis, 224–6
Sullivan, William, 6–7, 331, 383–4, 386–7, 394, 400, 411, 417, 440
Sumka Party, 122, 185
Sunnis, 32, 62–3
Supplemental Oil Agreement (Gass Golshai’yan), 144–7
Syria, 125, 309, 411
Tabriz, 115–6, 121, 124, 127–8, 180
Tahmasebi, Khalil, 202
Taj ol Muluk (Queen Mother), 12, 15, 59, 80, 92, 138, 147, 198, 213, 216–7, 241, 432
Takht-e Khorshid (Sun Throne), 29
Talbot, Philips, 251
Talbot Task Force, 251–2, 265
Taleghani, Mahmoud, 272
Taliban, 376
Tanavoli, Parviz, 347
Taq-e Kasra, 339, 352–3
Taubert, Dr. Eberhard, 231–2
Tavous (concubine), 29
t’aziye (Shiite passion play), 56
Tehran Conference, 106, 109, 111
Tehran Gadim (Shahri), 13n
Tehran radio, 72
Tehran University, 131, 134, 143, 270, 280–1, 332, 397, 445n4
Tehrani, Seyyed Jalal, 418
Teymour (Persian spy), 366
Teymouri, Ebrahim, 472n66
Teymourtash, Abdol-Hussein, 43, 356
Thalweg line, 361n
Thatcher, Margaret, 299, 419
Third International of Communist Parties (Comintern), 115
“third wave” of democratization, 280, 435
Third World, 141, 234–5, 316, 394
Titkin (driver), 364
Tito, Josip Broz, 325
Toilers’ Party, 143
Torrijos, General Omar, 426–7
Towchal Mountain, 343
Towzih-al Masael (Answers to Questions), 297
Trans-Iranian Railway, 68
Truman, Harry, 120, 122, 127–9, 145, 152, 257
Tudeh Party, 96, 115–6, 121–6, 129, 132–4, 142–3, 150–4, 172–8, 181–8, 221–5, 238, 317, 357, 366n
Turkemanchai Treaty, 29
Turkmans, 30
Umberto II, King of Italy, 214
Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 390
URIRAN, 332
U. S. Air Force, 183, 425
vagf (religious endowments), 56, 100, 102
Van Cleef & Arpels, 322
Vance, Cyrus, 383, 387, 405, 422, 429, 431
velayat-e faqih, 394, 438
Versailles, Treaty of, 17–8
Vietnam, 212, 252, 320–1, 327, 329–30, 439
Wailes, Edward, 238
Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, 282–3
Walters, Barbara, 370–1
Walters, Vernon, 173
White Revolution, 232–3, 236, 262–3, 278, 290, 292, 294
Wilkins, Fraser, 209
Williams, Esther, 199
Willkie, Wendell, 135
Woodhouse, C. M., 177
World War I, 16, 60, 106
World War II, 42, 64, 67–89, 104, 113, 140–1, 159, 177, 191–2, 231, 247, 281, 286
Wright, Denis, 193–4, 199, 215, 226–8, 242–3, 299, 301–2, 326–7, 335, 420
Yalta Conference, 113, 118, 122, 391
Yatsevich, Gratian, 281
Yazdanpanah, General Murteza Khan, 132
Yazdi, Ebrahim, 394, 415, 422–3
Zaehner, Robin, 151, 154, 172
Zafar, Forough, 157
Zahedi, Ardeshir, 5, 139, 166, 172, 174, 179–80, 186, 201, 212, 215–8, 250, 458n7, 464n35, 474n15
Zahedi, General Fazlollah, 163, 169–70, 172, 178–80, 182, 184–7, 189
Zahir Shah, 328
Zargam, Colonel, 183
Zellollah (shadow of Allah), 279
Zenderudi, Hossein, 320
ZHAMAN (KGB spy), 366
Table of Contents
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Dedication
Introduction
1 The Flying Dutchman
2 A Compromised Constitution
3 The Peacock Throne
4 Jocund Juvenilia
5 Happy Homecoming
6 Crown of Thorns
7 Hurley’s Dreams
8 Dawn of the Cold War
9 Palace of Solitude
10 Ajax or Boot
11 Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
12 Russian House
13 The Dark Side of Camelot
14 Garrulous Premier
15 The Bright Side of Camelot
16 The Desert Bash
17 Architecture and Power
18 The Perfect Spy
19 The Perfect Storm
20 The Shah’s Last Ride
Epilogue
Notes
Index