Cast: Rose Razavi, Soraya Ghasemi, Jafar Dehghan
Moamayeshah is a 2015 Iranian historical documentary series that examines the reign of Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi, tracing the political pressures, foreign entanglements, and internal crises that defined Iran's monarchy across nearly four decades.
What is Moamayeshah about?
Spanning the years from the early 1940s through 1979, this series reconstructs the arc of Mohammad Reza Shah's rule over Iran. Each episode draws on archival material and historical accounts to examine the shifting alliances, coup attempts, oil nationalization conflicts, and mounting opposition that gradually destabilized the Pahlavi throne. Rather than presenting a single ideological verdict, the series surfaces the pressures — domestic, regional, and global — that converged on one of the twentieth century's most consequential monarchies. Viewers follow a ruler navigating the Cold War, the CIA-backed 1953 intervention, the White Revolution reforms, and finally the revolutionary tide that ended his reign.
Cast & crew
The series features Rose Razavi, Soraya Ghasemi, and Jafar Dehghan in key on-screen roles. No director is credited in the available record. The ensemble brings a documentary-drama quality to the material, grounding historical episodes in recognizable human terms for viewers engaging with modern Iranian political history.
Context & significance
For Iranian diaspora audiences, the Pahlavi era is living family memory — parents and grandparents who lived under the Shah, fled the revolution, or lost relatives to the upheaval of 1979. A series that reconstructs that period without flinching from its contradictions carries real weight. Moamayeshah occupies a growing sub-genre of Iranian historical documentary that treats the twentieth century as unfinished business, inviting viewers to revisit the events their families experienced and to situate personal stories within a national narrative that is still being debated across the diaspora.
Where & how to watch
Moamayeshah is available to stream on K-Time. The series is in its original Persian audio without subtitles. Watch on the web, your smart TV, or your phone — no VPN needed, no geo-blocking, and you can cancel anytime.