Why alireza killed himself

It was the megalomania of the shah that enabled Ayatollah Khomeini to lead the revolution and mark the end of centuries of monarchic rule in Persia with celebration.

Two years ago, Iran came closer than ever before to grassroots rebellion against the regime when opposition leaders stoked the protests denouncing the re-election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. But the demonstrations were crushed and today Iran is as unforgiving as ever, imprisoning filmmakers who dare criticise the regime, holding American hikers hostage in the hopes of finding leverage with Washington and daring Israel to begin a new conflagration with its boasting of advances in nuclear enrichment technology.

Alireza Phalavi saw no end to this new Iran. That is the legacy of his blood. Only through death could he escape it. The Shah, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, died of cancer in Egypt in , a year after he left Iran shortly before the defeat of his remaining forces in He had four children with his third wife, the former empress Farah Pahlavi.

The oldest of four children, Reza Pahlavi was heir to the throne of Iran. He left Iran at the time of the revolution and is a peripheral opposition figure to the regime. Mr Pahlavi, who announced the death of his brother on his website, has lived in the US since The eldest daughter studied child psychology and social studies in Egypt and the US after the family's flight.

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He went into exile and died from cancer in Egypt in Alireza Pahlavi was born in Tehran in He studied music at Princeton University and ancient Iranian studies as a postgraduate at Columbia University.

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