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Ali Reza Pahlavi (born 1966)
Ali Reza Pahlavi ( fa, علیرضا پهلوی; 28 April 1966 – 4 January 2011) was a member of the Pahlavi Imperial Family of the Imperial State of Iran. He was the younger son of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the former Shah of Iran and his third wife Farah Diba. He was second in order of succession to the Iranian throne before the Iranian Revolution. Biography Alireza Pahlavi was born on 28 April 1966. He attended the Niavaran Palace primary school in Iran but left Iran alongside his family shortly before the Iranian revolution. He moved to the U.S. where he attended Saint David's School in New York City and Mt Greylock Regional High School in Williamstown, Massachusetts. Pahlavi received a BA degree from Princeton University, a MA degree from Columbia University, and was studying at Harvard University as a PhD student in ancient Iranian studies and philology at the time of his death. He was engaged in 2001 to Sarah Tabatabai, but it seems that the relationship ended some ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Esmat Dowlatshahi
Esmat Dowlatshahi ( fa, عصمتالملوک دولتشاهی; 1905 – 25 July 1995) was an Iranian royal and the fourth and last wife of Reza Shah. Early life Dowlatshahi was born in 1905. She was a member of the Qajar dynasty. Her father was Gholam Ali Mirza "Mojalal Dowleh" Dowlatshahi (1878–1934). Her mother was Mobtahedj-od-Dowleh, daughter of Ebtehadj Saltaneh and Abou Nasr Mirza Hessam Saltaneh II. Her paternal grandfather was Hessam-Saltaneh I. She had two brothers and one sister, Ashraf Saltaneh II. Mehrangiz Dowlatshahi, member of the Majlis and Iranian ambassador, was her cousin. Marriage Dowlatshahi and Reza Shah wed in 1923. She was his fourth, last and favourite wife. Reza Shah was the minister of war when they married. From this marriage five children were born: Abdul Reza, Ahmad Reza, Mahmoud Reza, Fatemeh and Hamid Reza Pahlavi. Her husband became Shah of Iran in 1925. However, it was her husband's second wife Tadj ol-Molouk who was given a public rol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gholamreza Pahlavi
Gholam Reza Pahlavi ( fa, غلامرضا پهلوی; 15 May 1923 – 7 May 2017) was an Iranian prince and a member of the Pahlavi dynasty, as the son of Reza Shah and half-brother of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the last Shah of Iran. Following the death of his half-sister Ashraf Pahlavi on 7 January 2016, Gholam Reza became the only living child of Reza Pahlavi. He resided in Paris with his family. He died on 7 May 2017 at the age of 93, eight days before his 94th birthday. Early life and education Pahlavi was born on 15 May 1923 in Iran. He was the fifth child and third son of Reza Shah, the founder of the Iranian Pahlavi dynasty. His mother, Turan (Qamar ol-Molouk) Amirsoleimani, was related to the Qajar dynasty deposed in 1925 in favor of Reza Shah. More specifically, she was the daughter of a Qajar dignitary, Issa Majd Al Saltaneh. She was also the granddaughter of Majd ed-Dowleh Qajar-Qovanlu Amirsoleimani, Naser al Din Shah's maternal cousin. Gholam Reza's parents were m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Turan Amirsoleimani
Turan Amirsoleimani ( fa, توران امیرسلیمانی, born Qamar ol-Molouk Amirsoleimani, (); 4 February 1905 – 24 July 1995) was an Iranian royal and the third wife of Reza Shah, with whom she had a son named Gholam Reza Pahlavi. Biography Turan was born Qamar ol-Molouk Amirsoleimani in 1905. Her father, Isa Khan Majd es-Saltaneh, was a son of Majd ed-Dowleh (a first cousin of Naser al-Din Shah Qajar). She continued her education until earning her diploma from Namous High School in Tehran. In 1922, she married Reza Khan, who was the minister of war at the time. The following year she gave birth to her only son, Gholam Reza Pahlavi. The couple divorced shortly afterwards. The reason for it was that Reza Khan considered her to have an arrogant personality. After divorce, Amirsoleimani refrained from remarrying and lived with her son Gholam Reza in one of the royal residences. In 1945, a year after Reza Shah's death, she married Zabihollah Malekpour, a renowned merchant. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ali Patrick Pahlavi
Prince Patrick Ali Pahlavi ( fa, پاتریک علی پهلوی; born 1 September 1947) is a member of the deposed Pahlavi dynasty of Iran and was heir presumptive from 1954 to 1960. According to the former constitution of Iran Patrick was the first in the line of succession to the throne. In 1960, however, with the birth of Reza Pahlavi, the latter became the heir apparent. If the Iranian monarchy were to be restored, he would become the heir presumptive to the throne. He famously said in an interview with Siavash Avesta "I am against all forms of dictatorship." Early life Born in Paris, Patrick Ali Pahlavi is a son of Prince Ali Reza Pahlavi and his wife Christiane Cholewski (or Choleski), a Frenchwoman,Ali Pahlavi. About, Biography Facebook of |
Ali Reza Pahlavi I
Ali Reza Pahlavi ( fa, علیرضا پهلوی; 1 March 1922 – 17 October 1954) was the second son of Reza Shah Pahlavi, Shah of Iran, and the brother of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. He was a member of the Pahlavi dynasty. Biography Ali Reza Pahlavi studied political science at Harvard University. Following Reza Shah's deposition and exile, Ali Reza accompanied his father in exile in Mauritius and then into Johannesburg, South Africa. He was married to Christiane Cholewska; they had a son, Patrick Ali Pahlavi (born 1 September 1947). However, there is no record of his parents' 20 November 1946 wedding in the 16th arrondissement of Paris. The couple divorced in 1948. Christiane had a son from a previous marriage, Joachim Christian Philippe, born 15 September 1941. Ali Reza died on 17 October 1954 in a plane crash in the Alborz Mountains. Honours National honours * Knight Grand Cordon of the Order of Pahlavi * Order of Military Merit, First Class (1937) * Order of Mili ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mehrdad Pahlbod
Mehrdad Pahlbod (; 16 March 1917 – 9 August 2018), born as Ezatollah Minbashian ( fa, عزتالله مینباشیان, links=no), was an Iranian politician who served as the first culture minister of Iran from 1964 until 1978. Biography Pahlbod was born in Tehran into the musical family of Minbashian. His father was Colonel Nasru'llah Minbashian, Imperial Iranian Army Band Corps. His relative Gholam-Hossein Minbashian, a professional violinist, was the conductor of Tehran City Hall Symphony Orchestra (later Tehran Symphony Orchestra) and the director of Tehran Conservatory of Music for years. Pahlbod studied architecture in Switzerland and in 1956 became the vice president of the Persian Fine Arts Administration in Tehran; an organisation which later became the Iranian Ministry of Culture. He was a violinist and music teacher. He served as a deputy at the Ministry of Education until 1961. Between March 1964 and January 1965 he was the deputy prime minister in the cabin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fereydoun Djam
Fereydoun Djam (1914 – 24 May 2008; fa, فريدون جم) was a senior Iranian army official, and the son of former Iranian prime minister Mahmoud Djam. Career Djam served as head of the Iranian Imperial Army Corps from 1969 to 1971. He was commissioned into the Cavalry in 1934 and had trained in the Prussian Staff College for the Wehrmacht in 1936-37 and served for a while as a mercenary officer in the Royalist force of Spain in 1938. He left the army because of professional conflicts with Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and retired in 1973. After resignation from the army he became Iranian ambassador to Spain for a few years up to 1978. Then he moved to London. To the last government led by Shahpour Bakhtiar before revolution he was proposed to be defense minister, but according to his interview later on due to lack of authority he did not accept the position. He believed that the declaration of impartiality by army core at the last day of revolution was a betrayal. Following the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shams Pahlavi
Shams Pahlavi ( fa, شمس پهلوی; – ) was an Iranian royal of the Pahlavi dynasty, who was the elder sister of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the last Shah of Iran. During her brother's reign she was the president of the Red Lion and Sun Society. Biography Pahlavi was born in Tehran on 28 October 1917. She was the elder daughter of Reza Shah and his consort Tadj ol-Molouk. When the Second Eastern Women's Congress was arranged in Tehran in 1932, Shams Pahlavi served as its president and Sediqeh Dowlatabadi as its secretary. On 8 January 1936, she and her mother and sister, Ashraf, played a major symbolic role in the ''Kashf-e hijab'' (the abolition of the veil) which was a part of the shah's effort to include women in public society, by participating in the graduation ceremony of the Tehran Teacher's College unveiled. Shams Pahlavi married Fereydoun Djam, son of then-prime minister of Iran Mahmoud Djam, under strict orders from her father in 1937, but the marriage was unha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Azadeh Shafiq
Azadeh Shafiq (1951 – 23 February 2011) was an Iranian royal and a member of the Pahlavi dynasty, being daughter of Ashraf Pahlavi. Following the Iranian revolution that toppled her uncle, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, she exiled in Paris and involved in opposition activities to the Islamic regime in Iran. Early life and education Shafiq was born in 1951. She was the daughter of Ashraf Pahlavi, twin sister of the Shah Mohammad Reza, and her Egyptian second husband, Ahmad Shafiq. She had a brother, Shahriar. Although her parents were divorced in 1960, her father did not return to Egypt and stayed in Tehran to raise his children. She was educated in German school in Tehran and in France. Personal life and activities Shafiq married twice. She married Farshad Vahid in 1972 and they had a son, Kamran (born 1973). She divorced from Vahid in 1975. She later wed a former Iranian military officer. She began to live in Paris following the Iranian revolution. Later her brother joined her and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shahryar Shafiq
Shahriar Shafiq ( fa, شهریار شفیق ; 15 March 1945 – 7 December 1979) was an Iranian Imperial Navy Captain and a member of the House of Pahlavi. He was the son of Shahdokht (equivalent to English term Princess) Ashraf Pahlavi, twin sister of the Shah of Iran Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. His military career lasted from 1963 until the Iranian Revolution in 1979. He stayed until March 1979 when he had to escape Iran after months of fighting the revolutionaries. Shahriar Shafiq resided in Paris until 7 December 1979, when he was assassinated by agents of the Islamic Republic. Early life and education Shafiq was born in Cairo on 15 March 1945. He was the son of Ashraf Pahlavi and Ahmad Shafiq, and brother of Azadeh Shafiq. Shafiq was educated at the Royal Navy College in Dartmouth, the United Kingdom. Personal life In 1967, Shafiq married to the Christian daughter of Manouchehr Eghbal, Maryam Eghbal, who had been married at age 18 to Mahmoud Reza Pahlavi in October 1964, o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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