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Founded by Amir Kabir, then the royal vizier to Nasereddin Shah, the Shah of Persia, Dar al-Funun originally was conceived as a polytechnic to train upper-class Persian youth in medicine, engineering, military science, and geology.
Reza Shah Pahlavi (15 March 1878 – 26 July 1944), born Reza Khan, was one …