Aryamehr (, ) was a title used in the Pahlavi era by Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi of Iran. It means Light of the Aryans in the Persian language.
Aryamehr (, ) was a title used in the Pahlavi era by Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi of Iran. It means Light of the Aryans in the Persian language.
==History== Aryamehr was granted as a secondary title by a session of the joint Houses of Parliament (Majles) on 15 September 1965 to Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the last Shah of Iran (reigning since he took the oath at the Majles on 17 September 1941), before his coronation at Tehran, 26 October 1967. The Pahlavis used it as an idealization of pre-Islamic Iran and foundation for anti-clerical monarchism, while the clerics used it to exalt "Iranian values" vis-à-vis Westernization. Demonstrating affinity with Orientalist views of the alleged "supremacy" of the Aryan peoples and the "mediocrity" of the Semitic peoples, Iranian nationalist discourse idealized pre-Islamic Achaemenid and Sasanian empires, whilst negating the Islamization of Iran during the Caliphate. Compared to the titles used by the Qajar dynasty, such as "Pivot of the Universe" and "Shadow of God", the Shah's title "Aryamehr" was less pompous in scope, despite critics ridiculing it as "grandiose and bombastic".
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