Year 1919: He was so mortified by the Anglo-Persian Agreement
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- All the Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror whole source · open book
He was so mortified by the Anglo-Persian Agreement of 1919 that he applied for residence in Switzerland and told his family he would live the rest of his life in exile. During the long reign of Reza Shah, he remained absolutely aloof from politics. In 1947, after an election-reform bill he had proposed in the Majlis was defeated, he retired to his estate at Ahmad Abad and announced the definitive end of his political life.
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