In 1932, she hosted the Second Eastern Women’s Congress, which was arranged by the Jam’iyat-e Nesvan-e Vatankhah.Ashraf Pahlavi was not permitted to attend university and instead was married in 1937, at the age of 18, to Mirza Khan Ghavam, whose family was politically allied with her father.In 1953, Ashraf Pahlavi played an important role in Operation Ajax as the one who changed Mohammad Reza Shah’s mind in giving consent to the CIA and SIS to start the operation.