What is the current name of the country that was ruled by the Pahlavi dynasty from 1925 to 1979?
Pahlavi dynasty Sabeti, a high-ranking official of SAVAK believed that the one important reason for success of regime's opposition is corruption. Pahlavi dynasty Pahlavi dynasty () was the ruling house of the Imperial state of Iran from 1925 until 1979, when the 2500 years of continuous Persian monarchy was overthrown and abolished as a result of the Iranian Revolution. The dynasty was founded by Reza Shah Pahlavi in 1925, a former brigadier-general of the Persian Cossack Brigade, whose reign lasted until 1941 when he was forced to abdicate by the Allies after the Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran. He was succeeded by his
Pahlavi dynasty the revolution, according to U.S. sources and Iranian exile sources in the US and in Paris, by Gen. Hossein Fardoust, who was deputy chief of SAVAK under Mohammad Reza's reign, and a friend from boyhood of the deposed monarch. Mohammad Reza fled the country, seeking medical treatment in Egypt, Mexico, the United States, and Panama, and finally resettled with his family in Egypt as a guest of Anwar Sadat. On his death, his son Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi succeeded him "in absentia" as heir apparent to the Pahlavi dynasty. Reza Pahlavi and his wife live in the United States in