The Fall of Heaven

by Andrew Scott Cooper

personality of

  political prisoners and

  returns to Iran

  revolt of 1963 and

  revolt of 1977–79 and

  Saddam Hussein and

  seizes power

  Shariatmadari and

  terror network of

  U.S. attitudes toward

  writings and tapes of

  Khomeini, Mostafa

  death of

  Khonsari, Ayatollah

  Khosrodad, Manuchehr

  Kirkendall, James

  Kirkendall, Jonathan

  Kirkendall, Libby

  Kissinger, Henry

  Kraft, Joseph

  Kurds

  Kuwait

  Laing, Margaret

  Lambrakis, George

  Laos

  Lavizan massacre

  Lebanon

  civil war and Israeli invasion (1978)

  Musa Sadr and

  Lee, Christopher

  left

  Lehfeldt, William

  Leila, Princess (daughter of Shah and Queen Farah)

  Le Monde

  Lenczowski, George

  Lepers’ Aid Association

  liberalization

  liberals

  Liberation Movement

  Libya

  Life

  literacy

  Los Angeles Times

  Louis XVI, King of France

  Lubrani, Uri

  Luxembourg

  MacArthur, Douglas, II

  Macedonia

  MacGraw, Ali

  MacMillan, Margaret

  Mahdavy, Hossein

  Mahnaz, Princess

  Majidi, Abdol Majid

  Malayeri, Ayatollah

  Malek, Mozaffer

  Manigeh, Princess

  Mansur, Hassan Ali

  Mao Zedong

  Marchal, Henry

  Marcos, Ferdinand

  Marcos, Imelda

  Marenche, Count Alexandre de

  Marie Antoinette, Queen of France

  marja, defined

  martial law

  Martyr’s Foundation

  Marxists

  Marzieh (singer)

  Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  Massoudi, Farhad

  Maxim’s catering

  McCollough, Cyndy

  McGaffey, David

  McQueen, Steve

  McWhirter, William

  Mecca

  Mehran, Hassan Ali

  Mehrmand, Mohammad Hossein

  Menuhin, Yehudi

  Merhav, Reuven

  Metrinko, Michael

  Meyer, Armin

  MI6 (British intelligence)

  Middle East peace talks

  Miklos, Jack

  Milani, Abbas

  Milani, Ayatollah

  Military College of Tehran

  Milliez, Paul

  Ministry of Commerce

  Ministry of Education

  Ministry of Energy

  Ministry of Information

  Ministry of Justice

  Ministry of the Interior

  Ministry of Women’s Affairs

  Mission to Iran (Sullivan)

  Moghadam, Nasser

  Mohammad, Prophet

  Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi

  affairs and

  aftermath of fall of

  Alam and

  Allied invasion and

  appearance of

  Argo and

  assassination attempts vs.

  authoritarian rule and

  Baghdad Pact and

  Bakhtiar and

  Banisadr and

  birthday celebrations

  birth of

  Bush and

  Carter and

  childhood of

  children and

  CIA and

  coalition opposing

  Cold War and

  collapse of support for

  Constitution and

  coronation of

  corruption and

  Crown Prince, as

  daily routine of

  daughter Farahnaz and

  daughter Shahnaz and

  death of

  death of Borujerdi and

  death of brother Ali Reza and

  death threats vs.

  de Gaulle and

  democratization and reforms of

  departs for exile

  departure decision of 1978

  detachment of

  early plots vs.

  education of

  Eid-e Fetr protests and

  Eisenhower and

  exile of 1953

  Fardust and

  father Reza Shah and

  father’s abdication to

  final days of reign

  foreign assessment of

  health problems of

  Hoveyda and

  Hua Guofeng visit and

  human rights and

  interviews of

  Iranian people, or farr, and

  Iraq and

  Islam and

  Islamists and

  Israel and

  Jaleh Square massacre and

  JFK and

  Khomeini and

  LBJ and

  leadership style of

  Lebanon and

  legacy of

  liberalization and

  marriages of

  marriage to Farah Diba

  marriage to Fawzia of Egypt

  marriage to Soraya Esfandiary

  martial law and

  Mashad protests and

  memoir of

  Middle East peace talks and

  military and

  military rule and

  moderate clergy and

  modernization and

  Mossadeq and

  mother and

  Musa Sadr and

  Nasser and

  nationalism and

  New Year’s Eve of 1977–78 and

  Nowruz of 1978 and

  oil and

  Operation Kach and

  Persepolis celebrations and

  Persian Gulf defense and

  Persian heritage and

  personality of

  plane crash and

  portraits of

  Reagan and

  residences of

  revolt of 1963 and

  revolution of 1979 and

  revolution time line and

  Rex Cinema fire and

  riots of November, 1978, vs.

  royal family and

  Sabeti crackdown proposal and

  Sadat and

  Saddam Hussein and

  satellite summit and

  Savak and

  security and

  Shariatmadari and

  Sharif-Emami as prime minister and

  sister Asraf and

  son Crown Prince Reza and

  Soviets and

  speeches, Constitution Day, 1978

  speeches, June 6, 1978

  speeches, May 1978

  speeches, Nowruz 1978

  strikes of 1978 and

  students and

  Tabas earthquake and

  Tabriz riots and

  tomb of

  trips to U.S.

  trip to India

  trip to seaports of 1978

  trip to Soviet Union

  UFOs and

  unrest of early 1970s and

  uprising of 1977–78 and

  U.S. and, early reign

  U.S. and, final years of reign

  wealth of

  White Revolution and

  women’s rights and

  Year of Iran and

  Zahedi and

  Moin, Baqer

  Moinian, Nosratollah

  Mongol invasian

  Montazeri, Ayatollah

  Moradian, Anahid

  Morocco

  Morris, Joe Alex

  Moseley, Ray

  Mossadeq, Mohammad

  coup of 1953 and

  Moss
ad (Israeli intelligence)

  Movassaghi, Fereydoun

  Movement of the Impoverished

  Mozaffar al-Din Shah

  Mubarak, Hosni

  Muharram march of 1978

  Mujahedin

  mullahs, defined

  Museum of Contemporary Arts

  Museum of Persian Carpets

  Naas, Charlie

  Naas, Jean

  Nahavandi, Hushang

  Najaf

  Farah meets Khoi in

  Khomeini exile in

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Naser al-Din Shah Qajar

  Nasiri, Nematollah

  Nasr, Assdollah

  Nasr, Hossein

  Nasr, Vali

  Nasser, Gamal Abdel

  National Front

  National Geographic

  National Iranian Oil Company

  National Iranian Radio and Television

  National Leprosy Fund

  National Resistance Force

  National Resistance Movement

  National Security Council (Iran)

  National Security Council (U.S.)

  National Uprising Day (August 19, 1978)

  Navot, Nahum

  Negarastan Museum

  Nemazie, Baquer

  Nepal

  Neshat, Ali

  Newsom, David

  Newsweek

  New Yorker

  New York Times

  New Zealand

  Nicholas II, Czar of Russia

  Nikpey, Gholam Reza

  Nilsson, Birgit

  Nixon, Richard

  Noor, Princess (daughter of Crown Prince Reza)

  Noor, Queen of Jordan (Lisa Halaby)

  Norway

  Nouri, Ayatollah Yahya

  Nourizadeh, Ali Reza

  Nowruz (Persian New Year)

  disturbances of 1978

  nuclear program

  Observer (London)

  Office of Anti-Subversion

  oil

  shock of 1973

  strikes of 1978

  Oman

  O’Neill, Eugene

  O’Neill, Jennifer

  OPEC

  open space

  Organization for the Intellectual Development of Children

  Oveissi, Gholam Ali

  Pahlau University

  Pahlavi Dynasty

  Pahlavi family

  Pahlavi Foundation

  Pahlavi University

  Pakistan

  Pakravan, Fatemeh

  Pakravan, Hassan

  Pakravan, Karim

  Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO)

  Palestinians

  Panossian, Archbishop Diyair

  Pari Sima, Princess

  Paris Match

  Pars News Agency

  Parsons, Antony

  Parthian Kingdom

  Parvin School

  Patrick Ali, Prince

  Paul VI, Pope

  Pearl Harbor, anniversary

  Percy, Charles

  Persepolis 2500 anniversary celebrations (1971)

  Persia

  geography of

  history of

  Islam accepted by

  renamed Iran

  rise of Pahlavi Dynasty

  Shia Islam and

  urban centers of

  Persian Book of Kings (Ferdowsi)

  Persian Gulf

  Peter the Great

  Philip, Prince of England

  Philippines

  Physical Culture Organization

  Pinochet, Augusto

  Poland

  political parties, banned

  political prisoners

  Pol Pot

  polygamy

  Pompidou, Georges

  Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine

  Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola

  Post, Jerrold

  Post, Telephones, and Telegraph Department strike

  Pournik, Mehdi

  Pourshaja, Amir

  poverty

  Precht, Henry

  Qadar, Mansur

  Qajar Dynasty

  Qavam, Ali

  Queen’s University Hospital

  quietist ulama

  Quinn, Anthony

  Quinn, Sally

  Quran

  Rabii, Amir Hossein

  Radio Iran

  Radji, Parviz

  Raein, Parviz

  Rafsanjani, Akbar Hashemi

  Rahimi, Amir

  Rainier, Prince of Monaco

  Ramadan

  unrest of 1978

  Randal, Jonathan

  Rangeen Kaman, banned

  Rastakhiz Party

  Razmara, Haj-Ali

  Reagan, Nancy

  Reagan, Ronald

  Regency Council

  Republican Party (U.S.)

  revolt of June 5, 1963 (Fifteenth Khordad)

  Rex Cinema arson

  Reza Abbasi Museum

  Reza Pahlavi, Crown Prince (son of Shah)

  birth of

  coronation and

  succession and

  Reza Pahlavi Cultural Foundation

  Reza Shah Pahlavi (father of Mohammad Reza Shah)

  abdication of

  coronation of

  Islam and

  Khomeini and

  land acquisitions by

  marriages of

  marriages of daughters and

  Mossadeq and

  Pahlavi name taken by

  power seized by

  reforms of

  son Mohammad Reza and

  torture and

  World War II and

  Rockefeller, David

  Rockefeller, Happy

  Rockefeller, Nelson

  Romania

  Rome

  Roosevelt, Franklin D.

  Roosevelt, Kermit “Kim”

  Roosevelt, Theodore

  Roots (Haley)

  Rouhani, Hassan

  Rouleaux, Eric

  Rudaki Hall

  Rumsfeld, Donald

  Russia, imperial. See also Soviet Union

  Russian Revolution

  Saadi (poet)

  Sabeti, Parviz

  report on unrest

  Sadat, Anwar

  Sadat, Jehan

  Sadighbi, Hossein Amir

  Sadr, Grand Ayatollah Sadreddin

  Sadr, Imam Musa

  Amal militia and

  disappearance of

  meets with Shah

  Safavian, Abbas

  Safavid Dynasty

  Saghi, James

  Sanjabi, Karim

  Sarkis, Elias

  Sarvanaz, Princess

  Sasanian Empire

  satellite summit

  Saudi Arabia

  Savak

  Scheel, Walter

  Schmidt, Helmut

  “Second Ashura”

  Segev, Yitzhak

  Senegal

  Shafa, Shojaeddin

  Shahidy, Ahmad

  Shahnameh (Ferdowsi)

  Shahnaz, Princess (daughter of Shah and Queen Fawzia)

  marriage to Ardeshir Zahedi and

  marriage to Djahanbani

  religious conversion of

  Shahram, Prince

  Shahrestani, Javad

  Shahriar, Prince

  Shahyad Monument (Tehran)

  Shakir, Sadoun

  Shams, Princess (sister of Shah)

  Sharbiani, Hossein

  Sharia law

  Shariati, Ali

  Shariatmadari, Grand Ayatollah Kazem

  Shariatmadari, Hassan

  Sharif-Emami, Jafar

  Shellenberger, Jack

  Shellenberger, Katie

  Shia Islam

  Shiraz Festival of Arts

  Shiraz-Persepolis Festival of the Arts

  Sick, Gary

  siqeh (contract marriages)

  Sisi, Abdel Fattah el-

  Six-Day War (1967)


  Smith, Colin

  Smith, Richard Mayhew

  Sofia, Queen of Spain

  Somalia

  Soraya Esfandiary-Bakhtiary, Queen-Empress (second wife of Shah)

  coup of 1953 and

  death of

  divorce and

  marriage to Shah

  South Korea

  South Vietnam

  South Yemen

  Soviet-Iranian Treaty of Friendship

  Soviet Union

  Special Bureau, Queen Farah’s

  Special Bureau, Shah’s

  Special Protection Unit

  Spielberg, Steven

  Stalin, Joseph

  Stallone, Sylvester

  Stempel, John

  Streisand, Barbra

  strikes

  students

  Suez crisis

  Suharto

  Sullivan, William

  Sunni Islam

  Switzerland

  Syria

  Tabas earthquake

  Tabatabai, Ayatollah Mohammad Hossein

  Tafazoli, Jahingir

  Taheri, Amir

  Taheri, Ayatollah Jalal Al-Din

  Taj ol-Moluk, Queen Mother “Nimtaj” (second wife of Reza Shah, mother of Mohammad Reza Shah)

  Takbalizadeh, Hossein

  taqiya (lying for self-preservation)

  Tavakoli, Mohammad

  Tavakoli, Taqi

  Taylor, Claude

  Taylor, Ken

  Taylor, Pat

  Tehran American School

  Tehran Conference (1943)

  Tehran International Film Festival

  Tehran International Trade Fair

  Tehran Stock Exchange

  Telstar

  Teymurtash, Mehrpur

  Thailand

  Thatcher, Margaret

  “Thinking the Unthinkable” (Sullivan cable)

  Third Directorate

  Thousand Families

  Time

  Time for Truth (Princess Ashraf)

  Times (London)

  Tito, Josip Broz

  torture

  Towering Inferno (film)

  Toynbee, Arnold

  Trans-Iranian Gas Pipeline

  Translations on Near East and North Africa (CIA)

  Travolta, John

  Trudeau, Garry

  Truman, Harry

  Tsafrir, Eliezer

  Tudeh Party (Communist)

  Turan, Queen (second wife of Reza Shah)

  Turkey

  Turkish minority

  Turner, Stansfield

  Tyre, Lebanon

  UFO sightings

  Uganda

  Umberto, King of Italy

  United Nations

  United States

  Allied invasion and

  exile of Shah and

  Khomeini and

  Mossadeq and

  oil and

  revolt vs. Shah and

  Shah’s early relations with

  U.S. Army Command and General Staff College

  U.S. Chamber of Commerce

  U.S. Department of Defense

  U.S. embassy

  seizure of

  U.S. intelligence. See also Central Intelligence Agency

  U.S.-Iran nuclear deal of 2015

  U.S. Marines

  U.S. News & World Report

  U.S. Secret Service

  U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations

  U.S. State Department

  U.S. Status of Forces Agreement (1964)

  U.S. Supreme Court

  University of Tehran

  Vance, Cyrus

  Vatican

  Vaughan, Sarah

  Vernor, Bruce

  Vernor, Eileen

  Vernor, Pat

  Vicker, Ray

  Vietnam War

  Waldorf Hotel

  Wall Street Journal