Then he was made a first lieutenant and dispatched to Zahedan. Bakhtiar’s first wife was eran Khanom, the daughter of the powerful Bakhtiari chieftain Sardar-e Zafar.At that time, the Bakhtiaris were extremely influential; Muhammad Reza Shah’s second wife, Soraya Esfandiary Bakhtiari, and the Shah’s last prime minister, Shapour Bakhtiar, were both related to Teymour Bakhtiar.