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Son of Iran's ousted shah takes controversial prize

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The son of the ousted shah of Iran on Saturday received a "Freedom Prize" in Frankfurt awarded to the Iranian people in a ceremony that critics said was illegitimate. Some 18,000 demonstrators, many chanting support and waving pre-revolutionary Iranian flags, greeted Reza Pahlavi as he turned up in the German city to be handed the honour, according to a police estimate. The prize was awarded by the Friedrich Naumann Foundation, an activist group close to Germany's liberal FDP party.

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