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Mossadegh plans to nationalize the British-owned Anglo-Iranian Oil Company (Qantara).
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Mosaddeq pledges to return control of oil back to Iran. The previous government. exchanged millions of dollars of foreign aid to Iran for majority control of Iran’s oil reserves.
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The shah wanted to remove his prime minister and form an alliance with the United States. Mossadegh refused and arrested the deposers.
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The Shah is forced to leave the country.
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Mossadegh is overthrown in a coup détat and General Fazlollah Zahedi is appointed by the Shah (Gozaar).
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The Shah returns and seizes power. Zahedi exiles to a post as Ambassador to UN in Geneva.
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With the Ayatollah in power in 1962, he is arrested for opposing the White Revolution. The White Revolution was a far-reaching series of reforms in Iran launched in 1963 by the Shah (Iran Chamber)
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To receive cancer treatment, the Shah travels to Egypt, Morocco, the Bahamas, Mexico, New York Hospital and Lackland Air Force Base in the United States, Panama and back to Cairo. The Shah dies in Cairo on June 27, 1980.
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The Ayatollah Khomeini returns from exile in France. With the Iranian people fighting for democratic reforms, limits on royal power, and a more representative government, they turned to Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini to lead Iran (Robinson Library).
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Khomeini names Iran the "Islamic Republic of Iran."
