History of Iran Revolution： Part 5
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Summary
In this episode, I talk about Reza Shah Pahlavi, the Shah of Iran, and why the Iranian people are so dedicated to remembering their roots and supporting each other to get rid of the Islamic regime in Iran.
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Hi TikTok. Let's talk about the Iranian Revolution. This is part 5 of my series where I talk about
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the events leading up to the current Iranian Revolution. If you haven't seen part 4, please
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go check it out. The link is in my description below and then come back and finish watching
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this video. In 1908, when he was only 14 years old, Reza Khan Pahlavi joined the Iranian
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Kossack Brigade and by 1921, he became the leader. Now keep in mind, up until 1921, the
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Iranian Cossack Brigade, which was the most important and influential and powerful military
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force in Iran, had never been actually controlled or led by an Iranian. So the fact that an Iranian
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was finally running the Iranian Cossack Brigade was actually kind of a big deal. Now the reason
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the British appointed Reza Khan as the leader is because they wanted to make sure that the
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Russian imperialists and their communist supporters in Iran would not gain control of the capital.
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And in February of 1921, Reza Khan led the entire Iranian Cossack Brigade to the capital,
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seize the capital to make sure that the communist threat would not take over.
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Reza Khan was the Russians' worst nightmare.
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Because not only did Reza Khan seize the capital, but he forced the entire dissolution of the
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Iranian parliament and, even though he had enough military control to take over, he instead
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chose to install Tabatabai as the new Prime Minister of Iran.
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Rizal Khan also installed himself as Iran's first minister of war and let's be honest that's kind of cool
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I mean, we don't have any ministers of war today, but I don't know
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It's kind of cool and Rizal Khan was so good at his job that by 1925
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Only four years later the Iranian assembly got rid of Ahmad Shah Rajar and instead appointed Rizal Pahlavi as the Shah of Iran
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And so, in 1925, the Pahlavi dynasty was legally installed by the democratically elected parliament of Iran in Iran.
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Now, it's not surprising that if you look him up on Wikipedia, you'll find that his reign was apparently controversial.
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But as you all know by now, every single thing when it comes to Iranian politics has been controversial since the 1850s.
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And more importantly, let's talk about why the people of Iran are constantly chanting, even to this day, literally risking their lives by chanting in public, Rizah Shah Ruhetshahd.
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As I've explained in earlier videos, over 50% of Iranians come from an ethnic minority.
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But up until 1979, when the terrorist Islamic regime took over,
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Iranians celebrated their ethnic and religious diversity.
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And a lot of the hatred and division that you see about or hear about today
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is because the terrorist and illegitimate Islamic regime in Iran
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has been trying to sow division amongst the people of Iran
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because they know that if they conquer and divide, the people of Iran will not unite.
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And because the biggest fear that those terrorist Islamic regime mullahs have
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uniting and supporting each other to get rid of the Islamic regime in Iran.
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