Coronation of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi

The coronation of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and Farah Diba, the shah and shahbanu of Iran took place on 26 October 1967, on the 48th birthday of the Shah, in the Salam Hall of the Golestan Palace. Mohammad Reza Pahlavi celebrated his coronation and placed the Pahlavi Crown on himself and crowned his wife Farah Pahlavi. Farah became the first woman to be crowned as the Empress consort of Iran.

Following Reza Shah's abdication after the Anglo-Soviet invasion in 1941, when Mohammad Reza Pahlavi took the oath of office in the National Consultative Assembly and became the Shah of Iran, the original coronation ceremony was postponed at the request of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi himself. This meant the coronation ceremony of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi took place 26 years after the beginning of his reign.https://historydocuments.ir/?page=post&id=3743

 Coronation ceremony 
On 26 October 1967, the 48th anniversary of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi's birth, he crowned himself and his wife Farah in the Salam Hall of the Golestan Palace. After his and Farah's coronation, he appointed his wife as regent ahead of his son if the Shah's reign ended.

Before the Shah crowned Farah Pahlavi, the Shah said:

{{Blockquote|text=I thank God for giving me the opportunity to serve my country and people to the best of my ability. I ask God to grant me the strength to continue what I have done so far. The honour and pride of my nation and country is the only goal of my life. I have only one hope, and that is to preserve the independence, sovereignty of Iran, and the progress of the Iranian people, and to achieve this goal, I am ready to sacrifice my life if necessary. May the Almighty God give me the opportunity to hand over a happy country and a prosperous society to future generations, and may my son, the Crown Prince, also succeed in carrying out this heavy burden under the care of the Almighty."فرح پهلوی: خاطرات فرح پهلوی - کهن دیارا، ۲۰۰۳، ص. ۱۵۴}}

 Change in the constitution 
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi requested a change in the constitution to give him the right to appoint the viceroy of Iran, to make the legal age for the crown prince to ascend to the throne twenty, and to keep the viceroy at the head of the country until the crown prince reaches the age of twenty. On September 1, 1961, the aforementioned changes to the constitution were ratified.

The Shah said quote:

 Criticism 
The coronation took place when deposed prime minister Mohammad Mossadegh had just passed away on 5 March, 7 months before the coronation.http://www.mohammadmossadegh.com/biography/birthdate/  Mohammad Reza Shafi'i Kadkani had written "Requiem for the Tree" for Mossadegh's death, which was published in the magazine Sokhan in May 1967. http://www.cgie.org.ir/fa/news/25351 At the same time as the coronation, the allegorical play of heritage and the banquet'' of Bahram Beyzai's work, which depicted the situation in Iran in allegorical figures such as "Sheban" and "Dehbashi", was staged in the 16th of Shahrivar Hall and caused reactions as well. «میزگرد تئاتر: دربارهٔ «میراث» و «ضیافت»». مجله سیمیا. زمستان ۱۳۸۶ - شماره ۲. صفحه ۱۶۵ تا ۱۷۹.

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