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The Fall of A Shah, 89 minutes, 2009 (Ref:
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To mark the 30th
anniversary of the Islamic revolution in Iran, we
look back at the seismic events that led to the Fall
of a Shah. The Shah, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi ruled
Iran from September 1941 to February 1979. From the
start, he was determined to transform his
impoverished and feudal country into a modern
industrialised nation. To the documentary makers who
tracked most of his reign, he made a fascinating
subject. He was seen as regal, autocratic and over
ambitious. But the documentary makers, his ally
America, and even the Shah himself were slow to spot
the forces that would prove to be his real undoing.
The Islamic revolution toppled the Shah and brought
Ayatollah Khomeini to power in 1979. It was the
first religious revolution in modern history and the
first televised revolution ever. Day after day, the
world woke up to images of Ayatollah Khomeini
defying the Shah and the Americans. For the first
time the world witnessed the power of political
Islam to change societies.
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