often capitalized
: a sovereign of Iran
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Later that year, university students overran the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, seeking the shah’s extradition and sparking the 444-day hostage crisis that saw diplomatic relations between Iran and the U.S. severed.
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Jon Gambrell, Los Angeles Times, 14 Mar. 2025
Later that year, university students overran the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, seeking the shah’s return and sparking the 444-day hostage crisis that saw diplomatic relations between Iran and the U.S. severed.
—Jon Gambrell, Chicago Tribune, 13 Mar. 2025
Yet two decades later, the shah once again ruled as an absolute monarch, parliament had become a rubber stamp, and the new constitution was largely ignored.
—Haleh Esfandiari, Foreign Affairs, 12 Dec. 2017
During the Iranian Revolution of 1979, strikes carried out by oil and transportation workers were essential to paralyzing the shah’s regime.
—Eric S. Edelman, Foreign Affairs, 13 Apr. 2020
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Jon Gambrell, Los Angeles Times, 14 Mar. 2025
Later that year, university students overran the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, seeking the shah’s return and sparking the 444-day hostage crisis that saw diplomatic relations between Iran and the U.S. severed.
—Jon Gambrell, Chicago Tribune, 13 Mar. 2025
Yet two decades later, the shah once again ruled as an absolute monarch, parliament had become a rubber stamp, and the new constitution was largely ignored.
—Haleh Esfandiari, Foreign Affairs, 12 Dec. 2017
During the Iranian Revolution of 1979, strikes carried out by oil and transportation workers were essential to paralyzing the shah’s regime.
—Eric S. Edelman, Foreign Affairs, 13 Apr. 2020
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“Shah.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/shah. Accessed 23 May. 2025.
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shah
noun
ˈshä 
ˈshȯ
: a ruler of Iran until the 1979 revolution
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