Interwar 8: The rise of the first Reza Shah Pahlavi

from Anti-Empire Project Podcast – The Anti-Empire Project · host Justin Podur

After the Cossack Coup, a power struggle between rivals leads to Reza Khan rising to the top. He defangs an American financial mission, jails and executes his rivals, plunders the tribes, makes a personal bank, and becomes not only Shah, but in Gholi Majd’s words, “the largest private landowner… in all likelihood in the recorded … Continue reading "Interwar 8: The rise of the first Reza Shah Pahlavi"

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