Foreign Policy And The Civil Crisis In Mohammad Reza Pahlavi's Government

Continuity of Iran’s changes, world events, and the role of main characters in the international scene in the contemporary history is so expanded that ignorance of it can make the precise introduction and accurate understanding of different social, economical and political events impossible. Therefore, what makes events of Mohammad Reza Shah’s ruling system and the international system complex and widespread, is a cold war between the communism and capitalism in which Iran was considered as a center of the international struggles. So, the events such as the crisis of Iran’s evacuation order that occurred at the end of World War II, Nationalization of the Oil Industry and subsequantly the Coup of Mordad 28th in 1332, Upheaval of Khordad 15th in 1342 and finally Islamic Repunlic Revolution in 1357 can not be analyzed apart from the international policies and Iran’s foreign policy tendencies. For these reasons the Iran’s civil events which are linking together like a chain and their relation to the international changes that enfluence Iran’sevents will be discussed in this essay.So the crisis of Shah’s government are devided into four following parts:1. The crisis of political legitimacy (political popularity).2. The crisis of religious legitimacy (religious popularity).3. The crisis of economical legitimacy (economical popularity).4. The crisis of international legitimacy (international popularity).Since the separation of these crisis from the last Shah’s fate is not possible, and because of the significant role of the foreign factors in the appearance and intensification of these crisis, and also final result of the current argument, the events have been followed up to Islamic.