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Abdol Karim Ayadi was the personal physician to Mohammad Reza Pahlavi the Shah of Iran during his reign from 26 September 1941 until 11 February 1979. A member of the Baháʼí Faith, he was born in Tehran in 1907.
In the mid-1950s, Iran stood at a complex crossroads of modernization and deprivation. While the …