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Mohammad Reza Pahlavi was well known for being the Shah of Iran. Mohammad Reza Pahlavi was the Shah from 1941 until 1979.
The Pahlavi Dynasty was ruled by Reza Shah Pahlavi from 1925 to 1941, and Mohammad-Reza Shah Pahlavi from 1941 to 1979. It was overthrown and abolished in 1979 as a result of the Iranian Revolution.
Presumably he was exiled to prevent him from overshadowing his son Mohammed Reza Pahlavi who was put in power by the British and the Soviets as he was more amenable to their aims.
Mohammed Reza Shah Pahlavi was a Shiite Muslim, but his political philosophy was strongly secularist in the same vision employed by Atatürk in Turkey.
Reza Shah Pahlavi.