Last days of The Shah

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On 22 October 1979, President Jimmy Carter reluctantly allowed the Shah into the United States to undergo surgical treatment at the New York–Weill Cornell Medical Hospital. While in Cornell Medical Center, Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi used the name “David D. Newsom”, Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs that time, as his temporary code name, without Newsom’s knowledge.

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