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When and how did the Shah of Iran come to power?

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When and how did the Shah of Iran come to power?

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Mohammad Reza Shah took the title of Shah on 26 October 1967, following a coup'd'etat orchestrated by the United States and the United Kingdom due to discontent regarding the nationalization of Iranian oil by Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh.

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What kind of government did the Shah lead?

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What kind of government did the Shah lead?

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A monarchy, that lead the country into a complete westernization disguised as a modernization, suppressing the current culture of Iran alongside with any opposition to his monarchy.

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The Shah lost power during his whole monarchy due to the policies he was following and the unrest he was causing around the mostly Shi'a community. The high amount of political prisoners (2,200). Policies against traditional merchants and corruption claims caused the people to break from unrest into a coup d'etat that will take place during the Iranian Revolution, on the 11 of February 1979.

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What role did Islamic fundamentalists play?  

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What role did Islamic fundamentalists play?  

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They played a big role, since they believed that the Shah's modernization would erase any of their current culture, especially those of the more conservative ideals. The Islamic fundamentalists also engaged into a nasty throw of insults, which surrounded homosexuality and claims about not belonging to Iran (the government did too with the Islamic fundamentalists).

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Sayyid Ruhollah Mūsavi Khomeini. A Shi'a Muslim religious leader and a political leader that became the founder of the Islamic Republic. Afterwards he became the Supreme Leader of Iran and started to impose more conservative ideals over the country, in order to erase the Shah's westernization.

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What relation did his exile have to the Iranian hostage crisis?

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What relation did his exile have to the Iranian hostage crisis?

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The opening scene of the movie, Argo, does a good explanation of this relation who is severely complicated to write about:

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Uploaded by Giovanni Rivera on 2015-12-11.