Reza Pahlavi, Crown Prince of Iran (Persian: رضا پهلوی, born October 31, 1960) is the eldest son of the late Emperor of Iran Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and his Shahbanou or Empress Consort, Farah. He was the Crown Prince of Iran until the Iranian Revolution.
He succeeded his father as Head of the House of the Pahlavi dynasty and is currently the successor to the former Pahlavi throne of Iran. As such he is referred to by supporters as His Imperia...
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Reza Pahlavi, Crown Prince of Iran (Persian: رضا پهلوی, born October 31, 1960) is the eldest son of the late Emperor of Iran Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and his Shahbanou or Empress Consort, Farah. He was the Crown Prince of Iran until the Iranian Revolution.
He succeeded his father as Head of the House of the Pahlavi dynasty and is currently the successor to the former Pahlavi throne of Iran. As such he is referred to by supporters as His Imperial Majesty Reza Shah II, though he does not use this style himself.
In 1978, Reza Pahlavi left Iran and moved to the United States to complete his higher education. He was trained as a jet fighter pilot at the Reese Air Force Base in Lubbock, Texas, and attended Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts, before graduating with a degree in political science from the University of Southern California. He has not returned to Iran since the 1979 Iranian Revolution.
After the revolution, Reza Pahlavi lived in exile in Morocco and Egypt until...
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