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Days before the 19 August 1953 coup on 16 August, the Shah, accompanied by his second wife Sorayya Esfandiary Bakhtiari and Aboul Fath Atabay, escaped from Iran to Iraq and then to Italy by a plane aviated by Khatami.
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi’s personal life was deeply influenced by his family relationships. Among his siblings, …