The Dinner Party at the End of the Iranian Monarchy

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Society & Culture, History

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🗓️ 26 March 2024

⏱️ 36 minutes

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When Mohammad Reza Shah got into a helicopter in 1979, he had no idea that it would be the last time he would ever see his country again. Nor did he know that he would be ending a 2,500 year tradition of monarchy in Iran.

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0:00.0	Truck stop brothels run by a web of ex-cons. A Commonwealth attorney wasted on
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0:30.0	Welcome to Noble Blood, a production of I Heart Radio and Grim and Mild from Aaron Manky.
0:37.0	Listener discretion advised.
0:41.0	January Interron can get pretty chilly so it's no surprise that people often forsake the city for warmer locales and on January 16th, 1979, that's exactly what the Shah claimed to be doing, leaving the
0:59.4	capital of Iran for a quote extended vacation. It wasn't publicly known yet, but the Shah had recently
1:07.5	been receiving treatment for leukemia and this trip to Egypt and then the United States was ostensibly to receive further treatment and recuperate.
1:18.0	But even people in the know understood that there was more to the Shah's instinct to leave the country.
1:26.9	It wasn't frigid temperatures or just the desire for medical treatment that drove the Shah of Iran, Muhammad Razaa Potlavi,
1:37.0	to board a plane headed for Egypt.
1:40.0	The real reason the Shah needed to get away was because of the monumental protests calling for his downfall that had reached a boiling point.
1:51.0	In his 40 years on the throne, the Shah had survived turmoil before, and despite appearing
1:58.3	to flee in the face of this unrest, he assumed that this time would be no different.
2:04.9	In 1953, the Shah had fled the country after a botched coup to topple the then Prime Minister,
2:12.1	a coup which he, the Shah, had tacitly supported.
2:15.7	But once the pro-Sha, U.S. government and the staunchly loyal Iranian military stepped in, the Shah was able to return to the country even more
2:26.0	determined to maintain his hold on power. And so as he got on the plane in
2:31.7	January of 1979, he knew it was possible that he might need to be out of the country for a year or two, but he assumed that eventually he would return, only more popular and more supported than ever.
2:48.4	After all, the Iranian monarchy was over 2,500 years old, it could survive another round of protests.
2:58.9	But by the start of 1979, the protests were particularly fierce. It had been a year and two days since the first
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