The shah leaves Iran for the last time

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His departure and the ensuing chaos blindsided the United States, which for decades relied on Iran and its absolute ruler as Washington’s closest Mideast ally. Washington sold billions of dollars in weaponry to the shah, whom America empowered in a CIA-backed 1953 coup, and stationed sensitive spying stations in northern Iran to monitor the Soviet Union.

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