Talk:Reza Shah

message: Edits made by me were  reverted by Kurdo777 (on 23 August 2009) with an edit summary saying "if you think something is unsourced, use fact tags." The text I deleted was not just unsourced but more-or-less duplicated by sourced text already in the article.  
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During Reza Shah's sixteen years of rule, major developments, such as large road construction projects and the Trans-Iranian Railway were built, modern education was introduced and the University of Tehran was established.[25] The government sponsored European educations for many Iranian students.[26] The number of modern industrial plants, increased 17 fold under Reza Shah, (excluding oil installations), the number of miles of highway increased from 2000 to 14,000.[27]
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During Reza Shah's era for the first time many schools, universities, cultural organizations, such as city theater, theater houses, cafes, etc were built and many talented Iranians from poor families, villages, small towns and big cities were sent to the best universities in the world, such as Harvard and Stanford to be educated and return to Iran and help development of the country. 
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The coup d'état of 1921 and the emergence of Reza Khan were assisted by the British government which wished to halt the Bolsheviks' penetration of Iran particularly because of the threat it posed to the British colonial possession of India. It is thought that British provided "ammunition, supplies and pay" for Reza's troops.[12][13] [14] 
Despite the support initially given to him by the British, the Shah worked to balance British influence with other foreigners and generally to diminish foreign influence in Iran.
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Although he came to power with the help of British government. He loathed British opportunistic methods in dealing with Iran oil resources and established ties with Germany to get rid of British and Russian interest-seeking strategies, that were taking most of Iran's national resources benefits, leaving people in Iran oil rich area in poverty.
<S>The rvt also replaced 
<BR>Shah (hereditary monarch) with 
<BR>Shah (roughly equivalent to King) 
<BR>although it has nothing to do with sourced material
 (later deleted) --BoogaLouie (talk) 20:07, 9 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Rvt

message: Was he Persian or Mazandarani by direct male line? Who is his earliest known ancestor by that line? СЛУЖБА (talk) 23:36, 9 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Nationality. 

message: The following quote used in the article:
'Our younger intellectuals cannot possibly understand, and thus cannot possibly judge Reza Shah. They cannot because they were too young to remember the chaotic and desperate conditions out of which he arose' gives the impression that Kasravi was a staunch supporter of Reza Shah. Yes, he was in favour of many social reforms of Reza Shah, especially the abolition of feudal titles (ilkhan, saltanah, and dawlah), the elimination of local privileges, customs, and costumes, the expulsion of the mullahs from public life; the secularization of law, the granting of certain rights to women, the creation of a modern army and a new administrative structure, and the forced settlement of some of the nomadic tribes (Abrahamian, Kasravi:the integrative nationalist of Iran, 1973, p.285). But, he was committed to seeing the political power of the ruling elite be destroyed:
..'The elite is powerful and well interconnected. Its members are not only in the ministries but also in all fields of public life. They have not just appeared recently, but were in power dying the days of Qajar despotism, during the constitutional revol;ution, during the years after the revolution, during Reza Shah's reign, and now during our own time. If we do not cut their roots they will always remain in power. (Kasravi, Dadgah, p.44 as cited in Abrahamian, Kasravi:the integrative nationalist of Iran, 1973, p.286).  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.80.104.182 (talk) 08:37, 22 May 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  misleading quote 

message: As of 2012-03-20, the current fourth paragraph in the Later Years of Reign section, which begins "The parliament assented to his decrees...", is highly inconsistent with the tone and objective of the preceding three paragraphs of that section.  There are possibly also factual inaccuracies in it, as it references incarceration of Mohammad Mosaddegh which is AFAIK something that occurred a decade AFTER Reza Shah's reign, during the tenure of his son, Mohammed Reza Pahlavi.  Could someone with better knowledge of regional history and impartiality please review this paragraph and edit it to be consistent or remove it if warranted? Macraig (talk) 01:13, 21 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Inconsistent with rest of article 

message: This article reads like Reza Shah literally came down from the heavens and bestowed light upon Iran. The page treats all of the historical criticisms of him as either anachronistic or simply ignorant. Frankly I do not know much about Reza Shah; I studied his rule in one class in college. From what I remember he was an uneven monarch, and ultimately failed (in part due to his method of modernization, in part due to Iran's unfortunate position during WWII) to unify Iran sufficiently to modernize the entire nation.
I honestly am tempted to delete entire chunks of this article, even though I don't know what I'd replace them with. Maybe I'll check out some books on Reza Shah from the local library so I can more intelligently edit the page. But right now we're in flagrant violation of Wikipedia standards. I'm surprised the article hasn't been suggested for deletion, given its overall quality. Spectheintro (talk) 05:05, 23 December 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Ok, I've edited the first 25% of the article. It's getting late so I'll leave the rest for later. Hopefully I can knock the rest out tomorrow and re-submit this for consideration beyond start-class, although given my general lack of expertise I'm not sure it'll happen. (We still have shockingly few academic sources.)Spectheintro (talk) 06:50, 23 December 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Unbelievable POV and bias 

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thread_title:  Copyright problem removed 

message: Why is the name of this page 'Rezā Shāh'? It's not normal to use this kind of letter (ā) in the names of individuals unless they have written their names like that. I don't know why "ā" is used. We have Ahmad Shah Qajar, Naser al-Din Shah Qajar, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, etc, and their names and titles are written in a normal form using Shah or Reza not Shāh nor Rezā. I suggest moving the page. Keivan.fTalk 09:09, 24 May 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Removing diacritics 

message: His mother Noushafarin Ayromlou is Azerbaijani:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayrums  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 93.192.69.179 (talk) 03:22, 21 October 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Hello. Using a Wikipedia article as reference is not allowed. You have vandalized sourced content twice by now ( - ), despite that three sources were added. Her surname makes me believe she was an Azeri (indeed, of the Ayromlou subgroup) from Georgia, but we cant add anything like that without sourcing. All souces simply state that she was Georgian or Muslim Georgian. - LouisAragon (talk) 03:53, 30 October 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  His mother Noushafarin Ayromlou is Azerbaijani 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: This page is being used by some as a promotional tool to enforce only biased information glorifying and eulogizing Reza Pahlavi, as opposed to being an informational resource. It seems that this issue has been brought up previously several times (i.e. "Unbelievable POV and bias"), [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Reza_Shah#A_sugercoated_view? "A sugercoated view?". This petty, arbitrary erasing of even the name of Reza Pahlavi and his relatives, as if it is forbidden, indicates that this page requires further protection from unscrupulous individuals who wish to take advantage of this article to disseminate a perverted, redacted narration instead of verifiable facts. There is no legitimate reason to be wiping sourced information on this article. LissanX (talk) 20:58, 21 October 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: Not done: requests for increases to the page protection level should be made at Wikipedia:Requests for page protection. Danski454 (talk) 21:30, 21 October 2018 (UTC)
replies: text:   The sources cited are reliable and include the renowned Encyclopædia Iranica, renowned authors like Ervand Abrahamian, dozens of books and news outlets. Falsifying excuses like "your sources are poor" and resorting to baseless accusations like "you're the only vandal trying to push his nationalistic agenda" are malicious and legitimate. You have no right to wipe large amounts of sourced information because it opposes your partisan political views. LissanX (talk) 21:31, 21 October 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-Protecting the Page 

message: The redirect Shah Pahlavi has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Readers of this page are welcome to comment on this redirect at  until a consensus is reached.  NotReallySoroka (talk) 00:32, 29 March 2023 (UTC)
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