Other frames of Shah’s life

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It was lack of his regime’s religious legitimacy in the eyes of many persians that led, in 1979, to his overthrow and exile. Two and a half thousand years of monarchy ended, replaced by the Islamic Republic under the guidance of the “just jurist.” Since the beginning of the twentieth century, many persians had yearned for greater democracy.

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