40 years ago Iran's shah fled the country

By Agencies
Updated January 16 2019 - 9:41pm, first published 9:40pm
Forty years ago, Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and Empress Farah left Iran for the last time.
Forty years ago, Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and Empress Farah left Iran for the last time.

On January 16, 1979, Iran's powerful Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi abandoned his Peacock Throne and left his nation, never to return home, setting the stage for the country's 1979 Islamic Revolution a month later.

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