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While in power, the Shah lived a life of opulence which distanced him from the common Iranian. He was described as "arrogant, cold, distant" and lacking any "common touch". In fact, in the days before he fled Iran, he was reported to be furious not at the fact that he was about to be run out of town, but that Tehran newspapers referred to him as "the Shah", not by his full title, "His Imperial Majesty the Shahanshah Aryamehr" or "King of Kings, Light of the Aryans".

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