NBC Nightly News - 1980-07-27
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[0:00] Asheville
[0:02] from New York. This is NBC Nightly News
[0:06] with Jane Paulie.
[0:09] >> Good evening. The deposed Shaharan
[0:12] Muhammad Riza Palavi died early this
[0:14] morning in Cairo. Doctors called his
[0:17] wife, Empress Farah, and three of his
[0:18] five children to his bedside last night
[0:20] when he suddenly began to hemorrhage.
[0:23] That was the direct cause of death. It
[0:24] was a side effect of the cancer that
[0:26] brought him to New York for treatment
[0:28] last October. inspiring the seizure of
[0:30] the US embassy and the hostages in
[0:32] Tehran nine months ago. The Sha died in
[0:35] exile, but as NBC correspondent James
[0:37] Compan reports, his friend Anoir Sedat
[0:40] will give him a state funeral.
[0:42] [Applause]
[0:45] >> Muhammad Resa Pulavi, once called King
[0:47] of Kings, Shaw of Iran, shadow of the
[0:50] Almighty, was a pale and haggarded man
[0:53] weakened by cancer when he came to Egypt
[0:56] in March. President Sedat said it would
[0:58] be the Shaw's last home. He lived just 4
[1:01] months occupying one of the opulent
[1:04] palaces of Egypt's former king Farooq.
[1:06] He never fully recovered from the
[1:08] infection and fever that followed
[1:10] removal of his spleen in Cairo. He was
[1:12] hospitalized again in late June,
[1:15] fighting infection, jaundice, and blood
[1:17] poisoning. While he struggled for his
[1:19] life, officials issued optimistic
[1:21] bulletins. But a tomb was also being
[1:23] prepared in a Cairo mosque. Last night,
[1:26] a massive hemorrhage and soaring fever
[1:28] were the final fatal complications.
[1:31] Anoir Sadat announced the Shaw would
[1:33] have a state funeral
[1:35] >> and he said, "If anything happens to me,
[1:37] I want to be buried in Egypt." Uh,