Celebrations of the twenty-fifth year of the reign of Shah

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The great wealth generated by Iran’s oil encouraged a sense of nationalism at the Imperial Court. The Empress Farah recalled of her days as a university student in 1950s France about being asked where she was from:When I told them Iran … the Europeans would recoil in horror as if Iranians were barbarians and loathsome.

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