| 1980 27 Jul |
The death of Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi in Cairo. (b.26 October, 1919 in Tehran).
Shah of Iran from 16 September, 1941 to 11 February. He came to power after an Anglo-Soviet invasion forced the abdication of his father, Reza Shah.
He had been diagnosed with chronic lymphocytic leukaemia in April 1974 by the French haematologist Professor Jean Bernard, [David Owen]
He fled Iran on 17 January and flew to Aswan, Egypt where he was welcomed by President Anwar El-Sadat.Later he lived in Marrakech, Morocco as a guest of King Hassan II.
And then Paradise Island in the Bahamas,
then Cuernavaca, Mexico, near Mexico City where his medical condition deteriorated.
On the 22nd of October he flew New York for treatment in the Cornell Medical Center after President Carter relented. He was later taken to the Kelly Air Force Base in Texas and from there to the Wilford Hall Medical Center at Lackland Air Force Base.
He left the US on the 15th of December, 1979 and lived for a short time in Isla Contadora in Panama where he was taken in under American pressure. The new Iranian government made an attempt to extradite him.
In March, 1980 he returned to Egypt having been offered permanent asylum by President Anwar El-Sadat
The official cause of death was complications of Waldenström's macroglobulinemia (a type of non-Hodgkin lymphoma)
He was buried in the Al Rifa'i Mosque in Cairo, [Wiki] |
Reza Shah Pahlavi; Cairo, Egypt; Egypt |
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