Mir Sultan Ahmad Mirfundarski was born on Mehr 1, 1297, in a “family of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs” on Amiriyeh Street in Tehran and in Liwa-ol-Molk Alley, which was later renamed Ansari Alley. His father, Abdolrahim, was an official in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He had not yet received his primary education in Iran when his grandfather, Ali Qoli Khan Muzhar-ol-Mamlek Ansari, who was the Iranian ambassador to Moscow at the time, took him to that city with him. After a year and a half, he returned to Tehran for a short time and studied at Soltaniyeh Elementary School and the Elementary Teachers’ College. Then, he went with his father to Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia. During his five-year stay in Tbilisi, he completed the first cycle of secondary school at the German school there and became familiar with the German language. He had previously learned Russian to the point that, as he himself said, he “spoke it more Russian than some high-ranking Russian officials”[3]. Upon his return from Tbilisi, he received a high school diploma in literature from the Dar al-Fonun High School and entered the Faculty of Law in 1938, but was expelled from the faculty after a fight with a sports teacher. However, with the mediation of his grandfather, al-Malalek, who was a confidant of Reza Khan, he escaped punishment for being a communist and joined his father in Beirut. Mirfundarski continued his education by studying at the Saint Joseph School in Beirut and graduated in law. The Supreme Council of Culture also accepted his bachelor’s degree on 2 January 1938. Since his family environment was all diplomatic, he also showed interest in this profession. Although his father, a diplomat, guided him to the world of journalism and considered Seyyed Zia al-Din Tabatabaei a successful journalist, emphasizing: “Son! You should pursue journalism; you can reach anywhere through journalism. Like Seyyed Zia al-Din Tabatabaei who rose from journalism to the premiership.
