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During her son's reign, Tadj ol-Molouk did not normally participate in royal representation, in contrast to her daughters and daughter-in-law, nor did she participate much in charity. She did not fully attend the coronation of the shah on 26 October 1967, attending only the reception following it rather than the coronation itself.
From 1941 to 1979, Iran was ruled by King Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the Shah. On February 11, 1979, the Islamic Revolution swept the country.
In 1967, Iran adopted a set of progressive family laws, the Family Protection Act, which granted women family rights; these were expanded in the Family Protection Law of 1975. The act was annulled in 1979 after the Islamic Revolution when Sharia law was re-introduced, but it stands out for having been ahead of its time, particularly in a Muslim ...
Soraya in childhood with her mother, c. 1935 Soraya was the elder child and only daughter of Khalil Esfandiary-Bakhtiary (1901–1983), [1] a Bakhtiari nobleman and Iranian ambassador to West Germany in the 1950s, and his Russian-born German wife Eva Karl (1906–1994).
Leila Pahlavi was born on 27 March 1970 in Tehran, Iran.She was the fourth and youngest child of the Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and the Empress Farah Pahlavi. [2] She had two elder brothers, an elder sister and an elder half-sister.
Sayyed Bozorg "Moody" Mahmoody [1] (Persian: سيد بزرگ محمودى; c. 1939 – August 23, 2009) was an Iranian professor, engineer, and anesthesiologist, best-known for taking his American ex-wife Betty and their daughter Mahtob to his native country and keeping them hostage there for a period of eighteen months during the mid-1980s.
The daughter of a German-Iranian rights activist said Wednesday that her mother has been given a prison sentence of 10 years and eight months in Iran. Claren retweeted a tweet by lawyer Mostafa ...
Yasmine Etemad-Amini was born in Pars Hospital in Tehran, Iran, on July 26, 1968. [3] [4] She attended the private Tehran Community School until the rising tensions in the late 1970s forced her family to leave Iran permanently.