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pahlavi

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1. pahlavi - Noun

2. Pahlavi - Proper noun

Meaning

Shah of Iran who was deposed in 1979 by Islamic fundamentalists (1919-1980)

the script (derived from the Aramaic alphabet) used to write the Pahlavi language

the Iranian language of the Zoroastrian literature of the 3rd to 10th centuries

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The people will not rest until the Pahlavi rule has been swept away and all traces of tyranny have disappeared. As long as the Shah's satanic power prevails, not a single true representative of the people can possibly be elected. Ruhollah Khomeini

Culture Architecture seeAlso The oldest surviving architectural monuments of the city are from the Qajar and Pahlavi eras. Source: Internet

During the reign of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi some members of parliament and high army officers were Kurds, and there was even a Kurdish Cabinet Minister. Source: Internet

Reza Pahlavi said that major protests that erupted in November and again this month, after the accidental downing of a Ukrainian passenger jet, reminded him of the uprising that ousted his father in early 1979. Source: Internet

P. 24: "The Pahlavi materials clearly show that kurd in pre-Islamic Iran was a social label, still a long way off from becoming an ethnonym or a term denoting a distinct group of people." Source: Internet

At the other extreme, exiled groups such as the Mujahedeen-e-Khalq and Reza Pahlavi, a son of the deposed former shah, have zealously proclaimed that the strike is a “” in the viability of the overall regime. Source: Internet

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