Fereydoun Moshiri was born on September 20, 1926, in Tehran, in the district of Ein al-Dawlah Street, though his family origins traced back to Birjand. His family background was rooted in both administrative service and literary culture, which played an important role in shaping his later sensibilities as a poet.
His paternal grandfather, Mirza Mahmoud Khan Moshiri, was an official in charge of telecommunications in western Iran during the Qajar dynasty. This administrative service led to his transfer to Hamedan, where Moshiri’s father would eventually be born. Moshiri’s father, Ebrahim Moshiri Afshar, was born in Hamedan in 1896 (1275 solar calendar). He later moved to Tehran in his youth and began serving in the Ministry of Posts in 1919. His career in the bureaucracy likely influenced Fereydoun’s later professional path, though the young poet himself always felt some resistance toward the routine of office life.
On his mother’s side, the family was deeply connected to Persian literary and cultural traditions. His mother, Khorshid, known by the title Azam al-Saltaneh, was the daughter of Mirza Javad Motman al-Mamalek, a Qajar nobleman who also served as a representative in the first term of Iran’s National Consultative Assembly. Motman al-Mamalek was himself a writer and poet, composing verses under the pseudonym Najm. This literary heritage from his mother’s side provided a natural environment for Fereydoun’s later attraction to poetry.
