State · 1925 – 1979
Pahlavi Iran
A state of 1925 – 1979 — 54 years in the Middle East and North Africa. It replaced Qajar Iran. It was replaced by Iran and Interim Government of Iran. The atlas records 17 things within it — wars and battles 1 · regime change 1 · unrest and atrocity 2 · people 13. Its line of rulers holds 2 people.
For the full story, the article on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); this page holds what the record says of the state.
- Stood
- 54 years
- 1925 – 1979
- Rulers
- 2
- the Shah
- Within it
- 17
- recorded rows
- Symbols
- 2
- on record, with years
Where it sits in time
Five thousand years, 3000 BCE to 2026; the state in gold, what it replaced or followed and what replaced or followed it in grey.
Before and after
The states the record files it as replacing or following, and those that replaced or followed it - Wikidata's own statements, each read from this state's side.
Before it
- Qajar Iran · replaces · 1789 – 1925
After it
- Interim Government of Iran · replaced by
- Iran · replaced by · 1979 – present
Rulers
Read from the state’s own English article and its rulers’ articles, where Wikidata names no ruler.
| Ruler | Reign | Length | How it ended · source | To the ruler before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reza Shah | 1925 – 1941 | 16 years | ending not on record | |
| Mohammad Reza Pahlavi | 1941 – 1979 | 38 years | ending not on record | child |
2 rulers, 2 with terms dated as terms, covering 1925 – 1979. Median reign 27 years. 0 of 1 handovers irregular - a killing, a deposition, a rival claimant, a rising or a coup beside it. A blank in the last column means no kin on record, which is coverage, never “unrelated”.
Flags and arms, in order
Each symbol with the years its own statement gives; the timeline flies the one of the year on screen.
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flag, undatedState flag of Iran (1964–1980) · Public domain 
coat of arms, 1932 – 1979The Imperial Coat of Arms of Iran · CC0
What happened within it, by century
Every row the atlas hosts under this state, by the century it began in: wars and battles in red, risings, regime changes and massacres beside them, everything else in grey. A tall bar is a century the record is full for, which is partly a fact about Wikipedia.
1900 – 199917 rows · 1 wars and battles · 3 risings, regime changes and massacres
- Qasem Soleimani · commander · 1957 – 2020
- Reza Pahlavi · politician · 1960 – present
- Ali Larijani · philosopher · 1958 – present
- 1953 Iranian coup d'état · adverse regime change · 1953
- Mohsen Fakhrizadeh · commander · 1958 – 2020
- Hossein Amir-Abdollahian · politician · 1964 – 2024
- Iran crisis of 1946 · war · 1945 – 1946
- Ali Shamkhani · inventor · 1955 – present
and 9 more in the atlas.
Among all states
Each measure against the states that carry it, never against all of them: a bar is the share of those states below this one.
- How long it stood54 years
stood longer than 35% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
- Wars recorded per century1.0
had more wars on record per century than 94% of 3,187 states, counting the wars the atlas hosts under each.
- How long a reign lasted, at the median38 years
had longer reigns, at the median, than 90% of 967 states whose dated line can carry a median.
- Rulers on record2
has more rulers on record than 34% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.
What led to it, and what came of it
The investigation's own picture: 9 causes the record names and 3 results, the strongest six of each at their own years, joined to the state by the kind of claim - a recorded statement solid, the article's sentence dashed, a theory dash-dot.
Open the investigation: every row with its evidence, the conditions at the time, the theories condition by condition, and the succession analysed.
Open in the atlas
- On the timeline, 1915 – 1989, with everything that stood beside it.
- On the map in 1952, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
- Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.
Wikidata Q107258515 (CC0) · symbols from Wikimedia Commons, each credited above · data built 2026-10-06 · Pastlas v2.9.1, by Oleh Voronko. The published atlas and its data are for non-commercial use.