Coronations are commonly held at the beginning of a monarch's reign, symbolizing accession to the throne and the continuation of the dynasty. Mohammad Reza Pahlavi's coronation ceremony of 1967, however, was held twenty-six years into his rule and was designed to draw attention to the renewed glory of Iranian monarchy and the successes of the Pahlavi shahs. This coronation ceremony and related events offer important insights into the Pahlavi ideologues’ conceptualization of monarchy and the strategies they employed to inculcate their ideology in a domestic and global audience. The shah and the monarchy were presented as revolutionary and reformist, and simultaneously as the ultimate defenders of tradition; as religious by nature, but also as proponents of the separation of church and state. This paper seeks to understand, using a range of underutilized primary source material, how the regime delivered these apparently contradictory notions, and what it sought to gain from holding the event in the way that it did.

加冕仪式通常在君主统治初期举行，象征着即位和王朝的延续。然而，穆罕默德·礼萨·巴列维 (Mohammad Reza Pahlavi) 1967 年的加冕典礼在他统治 26 年后举行，旨在引起人们对伊朗君主制的新荣耀和巴列维国王的成功的关注。这次加冕典礼和相关活动为巴列维理论家对君主制的概念化以及他们在国内和全球观众中灌输他们的意识形态所采用的策略提供了重要的见解。国王和君主制被描述为革命者和改良主义者，同时又是传统的终极捍卫者；本质上是宗教的，但也是政教分离的支持者。本文旨在了解，