After founding the Pahlavi dynasty, Emperor Reza Khan sought to reduce the influence of the Shia clergy and other religious authorities and to create a modern, centralized nation-state.

The self-declared shah of Iran Reza Pahlavi has claimed he is a “steward of a national transition to democracy” amid the escalating protests in Iran against the country’s supreme leader Ali Khamenei.

An exiled prince and an ex-president are among the top contenders who could ascend to power in Iran if its Islamist regime topples after over four decades of repressive rule, experts told The Post.

The Nation was among the first publications to report the CIA’s role in the 1953 overthrow of Iran’s democratically elected ...

Reza Pahlavi, son of Iran’s last shah, criticized President Donald Trump‘s handling of the Iran war and called on the ...

President Donald Trump was hesitant to fully support exiled Iranian crown prince Reza Pahlavi as the next leader of the country if the current regime falls, saying, “We really aren’t up to that point ...