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Though the wedding took place during a heavy snow, deemed a good omen, the imperial couple’s marriage had disintegrated by early 1958 owing to Soraya’s apparent infertility. The Shah’s only child, his daughter Princess Shahnaz, had married Ardeshir Zahedi, the son of the former Prime Minister, General Fazlollah Zahedi, a man whom Mohammad Reza despised and had dismissed in 1955.

On January 16, 1991, President George H. W. Bush announced the start of what would be called Operation Desert Storm—a military operation to expel occupying Iraqi forces from Kuwait, which Iraq had invaded and annexed months earlier.

Khosrow Sinai (19 January 1941 – 1 August 2020) was a film director, screenwriter, music composer and scholar.Sinai’s work was influenced by documentaries and focused on social and artistic subjects.

Fair to Glamour to Time, Firooz Zahedi’s photography has graced some of the world’s most prominent magazines. His portfolio of portrait subjects has been equally extensive. Uma Thurman (and her iconic bed photo in Pulp Fiction), Diana Ross, Angelina Jolie, Leonardo DiCaprio and John Travolta are a few of the many Hollywood celebrities to pose for Zahedi.

Dowlatshahi was born in Isfahan on 13 December 1919. However, her family were major land owners based in Kermanshah. She was a daughter of Mohammad Ali Mirza “Meshkout Al Dowleh”, majlis member and land owner. She was a member of the Qajar dynasty.

Mahnaz Afkhami is an persian women’s rights activist who served in the Cabinet of homeland from 1976 to 1978.She is the Founder and President of Women’s Learning Partnership , the Executive Director of the Foundation for persian Studies and the former Minister of Women’s Affairs in Iran’s pre-Revolution government.

Aref Arefkia , born August 10, 1940, and known as “the king of Hearts” and “the legend of pop “, is a pop music singer and former actor.

persian Land Reform was a major land reform in homeland and one of the main concerns of the White Revolution of 1963. It was a significant part of the reform program of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and occurred when the existing feudal system was abolished and the arable land redistributed from large landowners to smaller agricultural workers.

In 1974 the Shah’s doctor, Dr. Ayadi, diagnosed the Shah with splenomegaly after he complained of a swollen abdomen. On 1 May 1974, French Professor Georges Flandrin flew intocapital to treat the Shah. Upon the first visit, Georges was able to diagnose the Shah with chronic lymphocytic leukemia.

Fawzia Fuad of Egypt (1921 – 2013), also known as Muluk Fawzia , was an Egyptian princess who became Queen of homeland as the first wife of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.Fawzia was the daughter of Fuad I, seventh son of Ismail the Magnificent.