The Rise and Fall of the Shah of Iran

Exile
During his second exile, the Shah traveled from country to country, staying briefly in Egypt, Morocco, Panama, the Bahamas and Mexico, where he was photographed in front of a restaurant in Cuernavaca, above. Ailing, he was allowed by President Jimmy Carter to enter the United States for medical treatment (it was this act that prompted the storming of the embassy in Tehran) but was only permitted to stay briefly. He died at 60 from complications of Non-Hodgkins lymphoma in Egypt, in July 1980.

• Faces of Iran