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The Shah is understood to have rejected the idea, as well as to abdicate himself in favor of one of his two sons. When the Shah died on 27 July 1980, Farah Pahlavi proclaimed herself as the regent, a title in pretence.
Monireh Taslimi, born Monir Akhundnia in 1926 in Bandar Anzali (then known as Bandar Pahlavi), …