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As the Shah and Queen Soraya arrived in Rome, Italy on August 18, 1953—two days after he flew the coup against Mossadegh in Iran—the U.S. scrambled to direct his next moves.

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Image Gallery: The US Presidents and the Shah of Iran: A Strategic Partnership

Explore a gallery capturing the close ties between the last Shah of Iran and six U.S. Presidents over a span of three decades.

— July 25, 2022

Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, also known as Mohammad Reza Shah, the last Shah of Iran, courted a very close relationship with the United States and its leaders for almost three decades.

The American Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and British Secret Intelligence Service (SIS) developed a secret plan to overthrow the then-democratically-elected Iranian Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh. Code-named Operation Ajax, the CIA carried out the plan in August 1953 and put the Shah in control of Iran. The Shah maintained a close strategic relationship with the United States and its presidents for the next 26 years, until the Shah’s overthrow in the Iranian Revolution in 1979.

Top: President Eisenhower and Mrs. Eisenhower welcome the Shah and his wife, Queen Soraya, for lunch at the White House on December 14, 1954, just one year after the 1953 coup. Credit: Getty Images Bottom: The Shah of Iran and President Eisenhower drive through cheering crowds in Tehran on their way to the Shah's marble palace on December 14, 1959. Credit: Associated Press

Top: President John F. Kennedy and the Shah of Iran arrive at a U.S. military training facility in North Carolina on April 14, 1962, to view a demonstration of Navy and Marine Corps amphibious landing operations. Credit: JFK Presidential Library and Museum Bottom: The Shah of Iran with his wife, the Empress Farah Pahlavi, arrive at the White House for a state dinner in their honor on April 11, 1962. (L-R) First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy, Shah Pahlavi, the Empress Pahlavi, and President John F. Kennedy. Credit: JFK Public Library and Museum

During a state visit on June 5, 1964, the Shah of Iran posed with President Lyndon Baines Johnson outside the White House, Washington D.C. Credit: Library of Congress

The U.S. Information Agency created this propaganda poster of the Shah of Iran and President Johnson for international distribution between 1950 and 1965. Credit: National Archives and Records Administration

President Richard Nixon hosted the Shah of Iran at the White House in October 1969. Credit: Wikimedia

President Richard Nixon and the Shah of Iran met in the Oval office for almost two hours on July 24, 1973. Credit: Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum

President Gerald Ford and the Shah of Iran reviewed troops on the South Lawn of the White House on May 15, 1975. Credit: National Archives and Records Administration

On May 15, 1975 President Gerald Ford and the Shah of Iran look at charts from the USS Mayaquez military operation conducted earlier in the month. Credit: National Archives and Records Administration

President Jimmy Carter welcomes the Shah on his twelfth visit to the U.S. on November 15, 1977. Beyond the White House gates, police forces released tear gas to dispel pro-Shah and anti-Shah demonstrators. President Carter continued his welcome address even as the assembled, the Shah included, wiped away tears. Credit: Getty Images

President Carter and the Shah perform a ceremonial inspection of the troops during a welcoming ceremony for the Shah on November 15, 1977. Just fourteen months later, the Iranian Revolution would force the Shah into exile. Credit: National Archives and Records Administration

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Best royal wedding dresses of all time ranked - including Kate, Meghan and Queen

Best royal wedding dresses of all time ranked – including Kate, Meghan and Queen

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THE HEADDRESS

H.I.H. Princess  Soraya of Iran, formerly Queen of Iran, née Esfandiary-Bakhtiari  (1932-2001)

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Soraya Esfandiary-Bakhtiary (1932-2001).

Queen consort of Iran.

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She was the queen consort (shahbanu) of Iran as the second wife of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, whom she married in 1951.

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Their marriage suffered many pressures, particularly when it became clear that she was infertile. She rejected the Shah’s suggestion that he might take a second wife in order to produce an heir, as he rejected her suggestion that he might abdicate in favour of his half-brother. Being half German Christian, she was mistrusted by Shiite clerics; she was also resented by the Shah’s possessive mother. In March 1958, the Shah wept as he announced their divorce. The British Ambassador claimed that Soraya was the Shah's only true love.

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Following the marriage, Soraya headed the family charity in Iran. Soraya's marriage was troubled as Mohammad Reza's mother and sisters all saw her as a rival for his love just as they had with his first wife Princess Fawzia Fuad of Egypt, and continually snubbed and inflicted petty humiliations on her.

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As Soraya was brought up in Europe, Iran was a "strange" country to her, which the Iranian-American historian Abbas Milani argued explained her attitudes towards ordinary Iranians, which he called borderline racist. Europe was always the model for excellence in everything for her.

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Soraya who was fascinated with Hollywood and enjoyed meeting American film stars during her stay in Los Angeles. During her time in Los Angeles, Soraya met her favorite stars who were Grace Kelly, Lauren Bacall, Bob Hope, Esther Williams, and Humphrey Bogart. A photograph of Queen Soraya water-skiing in Miami while wearing a bikini become extremely controversial in Iran.

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Soraya was very jealous and demanded that her husband show love only to her, not even to Princess Shahnaz, the Shah's daughter by his first marriage.

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After a brief career as an actress, and a liaison with Italian film director Franco Indovina (she became depressed after his death in a plane crash), Soraya lived alone in Paris till her death.

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Soraya Emerald Sunburst Tiara ♕ Government of the Islamic Republic of Iran

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Shah Mohammad Reza and Queen Soraya of Iran

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Soraya Esfandiary-Bakhtiary

Born in 1932, died in 2001

She was the queen consort of Iran as the second wife of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, whom she married in 1951. Their marriage suffered many pressures, particularly when it became clear that she was infertile. They divorced in 1958.

After a brief career as an actress, and a liaison with Italian film director Franco Indovina (she became depressed after his death in a plane crash), Soraya lived alone in Paris till her death.

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A Big To-Do For A Shah's Bride-to-Be.

For weeks the world has been talking about the slender dark-haired girl and her royal wooer. Rumors told of their romantic meeting last spring in Paris. Happy speculation insisted that on a recent whirlwind tour of Parisian couturiers the clothes she was so lavishly buying were to be her trousseau. Now, at last, it was official. In the royal palace in Tehran, Farah Diba was sitting for an engagement portrait with her future husband, the 40-year-old ruler of Iran, Mohammed Reza Shah Pahlevi. He had just made known that he will make her his queen on Dec. 21. Like any bride-to-be the 21-year-old Farah Diba was being formally presented to her fiance's family and friends.

The girl they met is tall (5'9”) poised and pretty. Her hair has been styled by the best hairdresser in Paris and much of her wardrobe has been exquisitely fashioned by the House of Dior. The future queen of Iran comes from more humble surroundings than her two predecessors. The shah's first wife, Queen Fawzia, was of royal blood, sister of Egypt's deposed King Farouk. His second, handsome Queen Soraya, was partician, the European-bred daughter of one of Iran's oldest and most powerful families. Farah Diba, whose father was a career army officer and bank official, belongs unquestionably to “the thousand families” – Iran's equivalent of “the 400.” But she is nevertheless a commoner who grew up in something very like an American middle-class life before going off at 19 to a tough school of architecture in Paris. There she had to watch her pennies like any other Left Bank student.

Besides the problem of getting used to the regal ways of the Iranian court protocol and to the responsibility of being mistress to the shah's eight palaces, the most crucial obligation of Farah as queen will be tho provide the shah and Iran with a male heir. Failure of his two former wives to do so created constitutional questions over dynastic succession to the throne, the most recent resulting in the Shah's divorce of Queen Soraya. Said the future queen, Farah Diba, “I earnestly hope that I will be of service to my country and my fellow countrymen.”

The sudden favor she had found with the shah thrust Farah Diba, with scant warning, into a new glittery whirl of rich clothes, fancy parties, and courtly protocol. A lighthearted girl, as well as an intelligent one, she took it all gaily and graciously in stride.

In Paris on her recent clothes-buying trip she put in a dazzling appearance at the opera modishly swathed in white mink and regally ensconed in the box of the Iranian Embassy. Back home in Tehran there were parties including an elegant affair in the palace of the queen mother where 800 guests came to meet Farah and celebrate the recent marriage of the shah's sister to the commander of the Iranian air force. This edifice, with its Venetian crystal candelabra and 18th century furnishings, was to be her new home ground. The shah, in addition to giving her a 55-carat, half-inch-square diamond engagement ring, had arranged for her to take up residence in the queen mother's palace until the wedding day.

Life, Dec 7, 1959

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28 Commoners Who Married Royals

28 Commoners Who Married Royals

Soraya Esfandiary-Bakhtiary She became an Iranian queen when she married Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi in ​​1951. Queen Soraya, the daughter of a German mother and a father who was a member of the powerful Bakhtiari family in Iran, was the Shah’s second wife and later became an actress. She starred in two movies, I Tre Volti and Sheafter the couple’s divorce in 1958. Source link

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THE WEDDING

H.I.M. Emperor Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi of Iran and Soraya-Esfandiari-Bakhtiari Wedding  (1951)

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All I can say is that women, when they govern, are much harsher than men. Much crueler. Much more bloodthirsty. I'm citing facts, not opinions. You're heartless when you have power. Think of Catherine de Medicis, Catherine of Russia, Elizabeth I of England. Not to mention Lucrezia Borgia with her poisons and intrigues. You're schemers, you're evil. All of you.

- Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the Shah of Iran in The Mystically Divine Shah of Iran by Oriana Fallaci (30 Dec 1973).

**Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the Shah of Iran, and Soraya, Her Majesty The Queen of Iran. Photo taken in Iran