Ahmad Mirfanderski, the last foreign minister of Pahlavi

” However, Ahmad followed his mother’s advice and was employed at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs with a bachelor’s degree, where, with the help of Saed Maraghei, the then Minister of Foreign Affairs and the next Prime Minister, and others, he quickly rose through the ranks.He began his career as an employee in the Protocol Department, then served in the Second Political Department. In 1946, he went to the Iranian Embassy in Moscow as the Third Secretary, and remained in Moscow until 1951, when he was promoted to the Second Secretary. But in the same year, he was called to Tehran and assumed the position of Deputy Director of the Passport Department. A year later, he went to the Iranian embassy in The Hague, Netherlands as second secretary. Since he had a law degree, he also took advantage of the situation in the Netherlands and participated in four international law courses. In 1956, when he returned from the Netherlands, he was the first secretary of the embassy and took charge of the department of treaties and legal affairs in Tehran. On March 1, 1957, he was sent to the Iranian embassy in India as a third-class counselor, where he was promoted to second-class counselor. The Shah’s First Decree By 1958, Mirfenderski had shone brightly for eighteen of the nineteen years of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi’s reign.