After the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union invaded and occupied Iran on 25 August 1941, the British offered to keep his family in power if Reza Shah agreed to a life of exile. Reza Shah abdicated, and the British forces quickly took him and his children to Mauritius.
After a few times moving, he went to Johannesburg in South Africa, where he died on 26 July 1944. In May 1950, the embalming was removed and buried in a mausoleum built in Tehran.
