Coronation of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi

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he arrival of Shah Mohammad Reza, Shahbanu Farah and Crown Prince Reza in Pasargadae, in front of Cyrus’ tomb, 12 October 1971.As part of his efforts to modernise homeland and give the persian people a non-Islamic identity, Mohammad Reza quite consciously started to celebrate persian history before the Arab conquest with a special focus on the Achaemenid period.

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