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Building a Nation: Pahlavi Iran, the 'CIA Coup' Myth, and the White Revolution (opens the original)
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This is Part 2 of this series. In Part 1, we covered the period from the late years of the Qajar Dynasty in the late 19th and early 20th centuries to the ascension of the Pahlavi Dynasty in 1925. This period contains important antecedents to the relationship between religion and the state, constitutional reform, the tensions between modernisation and religious leadership, and the influence of imperial powers in shaping a revived Iranian nationalism oriented towards a strong central government an
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