Interwar 8: The rise of the first Reza Shah Pahlavi
The Anti Empire Project with Justin Podur
April 2, 202642m 4s
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Show Notes
After the Cossack Coup, a power struggle between rivals leads to Reza Khan rising to the top. He defangs an American financial mission, jails and executes his rivals, plunders the tribes, makes a personal bank, and becomes not only Shah, but in Gholi Majd’s words, “the largest private landowner… in all likelihood in the recorded … <a href="https://podur.org/2026/04/02/interwar-8-the-rise-of-the-first-reza-shah-pahlavi/" class="more-link">Continue reading<span class="screen-reader-text"> "Interwar 8: The rise of the first Reza Shah Pahlavi"</span></a>