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Iranian dynasty founded by Riza Khan
(1877-1944), an army officer who seized
control of the government 1921 and was
proclaimed shah 1925. During World War II,
Britain and the USSR were nervous of his
German sympathies and occupied Iran 1941-46.
They compelled him to abdicate 1941 in favour
of his son Muhammad Riza Shah Pahlavi, who
took office in 1956, with US support, and who
was deposed in the Islamic revolution 1979.