Coronation of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
Portrait of the members of the Pahlavi dynasty at the coronation on 26 October 1967 | |
| Native name | Persian: تاجگذاری محمدرضا پهلوی, romanized: Tâj Gozâri-ye Mohammad Reza Pahlavi |
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| Date | 26 October 1967 |
| Venue | Salam Hall, Golestan Palace |
| Location | Tehran, Iran |
| Organized by | Government of Iran |
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The coronation of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and Farah Diba, the shah and shahbanu of Iran took place on 26 October 1967, on the 48th birthday of the Shah, in the Salam Hall of the Golestan Palace. Mohammad Reza Pahlavi placed the Pahlavi Crown on himself and crowned his wife Farah Pahlavi. Farah became the first and only woman to be crowned as the Empress consort of Iran as well as the first crowned Muslim woman.
Following Reza Shah's abdication after the Anglo-Soviet invasion in 1941, when Mohammad Reza Pahlavi took the oath of office in the National Consultative Assembly and became the Shah of Iran, the original coronation ceremony was postponed at the request of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi himself. This meant that the coronation ceremony of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi took place 26 years after the beginning of his reign.[1]
Coronation ceremony
On 26 October 1967, the 48th anniversary of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi's birth, the Shah crowned himself and his wife Farah in the Salam Hall of the Golestan Palace. After the coronation, he appointed his wife as regent ahead of his son if the Shah's reign ended.
Before the Shah crowned Farah Pahlavi, the Shah said:
"I thank God for giving me the opportunity to serve my country and people to the best of my ability. I ask God to grant me the strength to continue what I have done so far. The honour and pride of my nation and country is the only goal of my life. I have only one hope, and that is to preserve the independence, sovereignty of Iran, and the progress of the Iranian people, and to achieve this goal, I am ready to sacrifice my life if necessary. May the Almighty God give me the opportunity to hand over a happy country and a prosperous society to future generations, and may my son, the Crown Prince, also succeed in carrying out this heavy burden under the care of the Almighty."[2]
Change in the constitution
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi requested a change in the constitution to give him the right to appoint the regent of Iran, to make the legal age for the crown prince to ascend to the throne twenty, and to keep the regent at the head of the country until the crown prince reaches the age of twenty. On 1 September 1961, the afore mentioned changes to the constitution were ratified.
The Shah said quote:
"When the basic needs of the Iranian people are met and the framework of the Iranian economy is expanded, we must set foot on the path to Great Civilization, and these changes to the constitution will pave our way toward great civilization."[3]
Reactions
The coronation took place seven months after Mohammad Mossadegh, the prime minister of Iran from 1951 until he deposed in the 1953 coup d'état, had just passed away on 5 March.[4] Mohammad Reza Shafi'i Kadkani had written "Requiem for the Tree" for Mossadegh's death, which was published in the magazine Sokhan in May 1967. [5] At the same time as the coronation, the allegorical play of heritage and the banquet of Bahram Beyzai's work, which depicted the situation in Iran in allegorical figures such as "Sheban" and "Dehbashi", was staged in the 16th of Shahrivar Hall, which had caused reactions as well. [6]
See also
References
- ^ https://historydocuments.ir/?page=post&id=3743
- ^ فرح پهلوی: خاطرات فرح پهلوی - کهن دیارا، ۲۰۰۳، ص. ۱۵۴
- ^ Gholam Reza Afkhami: The Life and Times of the Shah, University of California Press, 2009, p.248
- ^ http://www.mohammadmossadegh.com/biography/birthdate/
- ^ http://www.cgie.org.ir/fa/news/25351
- ^ «میزگرد تئاتر: دربارهٔ «میراث» و «ضیافت»». مجله سیمیا. زمستان ۱۳۸۶ - شماره ۲. صفحه ۱۶۵ تا ۱۷۹.