"Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi succeeded to the throne of Persia in 1941..."

Not only that, the Pahlavi Monarchy was established in 1925 with Shah I. The man we knew as The Shah of Iran was actually Shah II. The monarchy that the Pahlavis replaced had deteroriated to the point that a 12 year old disturbed creep was made king.

The people of Iran loved The Shah, and his wife is still the most beloved figure in Iran to this day.

The Shah wanted to let the people have more power so he set up a parliament that served at his pleasure. They decided to elect a president when they did not have any power to do so. Various extreme Muslim groups, organized crime as well as a large of group of Soviet-backed Reds joined the new president to threaten The Shah.

He fled until army factions, supported by the USA and, yes, the CIA, helped The Shah get back to his position safely. The Shah was a real reformer and led an honest secular government. Muslims extremests, crime cartels and Communists hated the Shah and alwasys posed a threat to the Pahlavi manarchy. It fell in 1979, thank to a push from Jimmy Carter's ineptitude.