Reza Shah wielded absolute power over the country, AP reported, spending taxes and oil revenues on modernization. Reza Shah famously banned women from wearing body-length chador robes in 1936.

The portraits of world leaders hanging in the 15th-floor boardroom of The New York Times are not an endorsement.

Reza Shah was the father of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Iran’s last king, who was overthrown in the 1979 revolution, when clerics led by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini pledged to build a paradise of ...

In this Aug. 19, 1941 file photo, Reza Shah Pahlavi, hands second son, Ali Reza, commission as officer at graduation exercises at Iran's "West Point" in Tehran, Iran prior to Anglo-Russian action.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Construction workers in Iran may have unearthed the mummified remains of Reza Shah Pahlavi, the father of the country's last monarch, nearly four decades after ...

From 1941 to 1979, Iran was ruled by King Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the Shah. On February 11, 1979, the Islamic Revolution swept the country. The government was replaced with an Islamic republic ...

The last heir to the Iranian monarchy urged Western states on Monday to accept that the collapse of the current Iranian authorities is necessary to deliver lasting peace and regional stability.

Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the last shah of Iran, was deposed during the 1979 Iranian Revolution. The stark, powerful images of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini’s radical supporters cheering the monarchy ...