Mohammad Reza Pahlavi

This is the transcript for Book Two, episode 10 of The Lion and the Sun podcast: Reza Shah’s Abdication. When…

in 1941, Britain and the Soviet Union invade Iran in hopes of a regime change and Reza Shah contemplates abdication.
The making of a monarch: How Reza Shah picked his heir and shaped his son, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, into Iran’s future king.
Groomed for power from childhood, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi was more than a prince. He was Reza Shah's guarantee for a successful political project.

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