“… if you must know, I am, of course, by education and by conviction, a Shiite Muslim. I am very much a man of faith.”

— Reza Pahlavi

As quoted by Deborah Solomon, New York Times: Questions for Reza Pahlavi http://www.rezapahlavi.org/details_article.php?article=379&page=4, The New York Times, June 26, 2009.
Interviews, 2009

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