NATIONAL POLICY OF SHAH’S GOVERNMENT OF IRAN IN 1925-1979
The article deals with the conditions of the formation and realization of the national policy of the shahanshah’s government of Iran during the reign of the Pahlavi dynasty since the assumption of power by the dynasty in 1925 until the downfall of the shahanshah’s regime during the Islamic Revolution in 1979. The role of national policy in the state system of monarchical Iran in the XX century is analyzed. The importance of ethnic separatism in Iran in the context of the formation of the single Iranian political nation and of the conception of Pan-Iranism as an ideological factor of the shah’s national policy is elucidated.