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(Redirected from Ali Reza Pahlavi I) Iranian prince (1922–1954) This article is about the son of Reza Shah. For his nephew of the same name, see Ali Reza Pahlavi (born 1966).

Ali Reza Pahlavi
Born(1922-03-01)1 March 1922
Tehran, Sublime State of Iran
Died17 October 1954(1954-10-17) (aged 32)
Alborz, Imperial State of Iran
BurialMausoleum of Reza Shah
Spouse Christiane Cholewski ​ ​(m. 1946; div. 1948)​
IssuePatrick Ali Pahlavi
HousePahlavi
FatherReza Shah
MotherTadj ol-Molouk

Ali Reza Pahlavi (Persian: علیرضا پهلوی; 1 March 1922 – 17 October 1954) was the second son of Reza Shah Pahlavi, Shah of Iran, and the brother of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. He was a member of the Pahlavi dynasty.

Education and marriage

He joined the French Army in the year 1944 and served there until 1947, then returned to Iran. During his service in France, Ali Reza married a French-Polish descent widow named Christiane Cholesky (or Chouleski). She was the daughter of André-Louis Cholesky, a French mathematician and the author of Cholesky decomposition. She had received the first prize for the most beautiful leg in Deauville from Marlene Dietrich. Ali Reza accepted Christiane's four-year-old son, Christian Pahlavi, as his adopted son and gave him his surname. Ali Reza also became the father of a boy named Ali Patrick Pahlavi through Christiane, but the Iranian court did not recognize this marriage, so the couple lived in Paris.

Displeased with his brothers' passive stance towards the events in Mohammad Mossadegh's government, Ali Reza founded the "Shah's Fedayeen". Unlike his brothers, he actively supported the Shah's regime and was ready to take effective action against Mossadegh's government. He played a key role in organizing the events of 28 February 1953, by calling for and mobilizing thugs such as Tayeb Haj Rezai, Hossein Esmaeili Pour (Ramazan Yekie), and Shaban Jafari. All those who mobilized to demonstrate against Mossadegh and in support of the Shah on 28 Mordad also played similar roles.

On 21 November 1953, Ali Reza Pahlavi was appointed as the head of the Army Sports Association.

Death

Ali Reza died on 17 October 1954 in a plane crash in the Alborz Mountains.

Honours

National honours

  • Knight Grand Cordon of the Order of Pahlavi
  • Order of Military Merit, First Class (1937)
  • Order of Military Merit, Second Class (1937)
  • Order of Glory, First Class (1937)

Foreign honours

References

  1. Ali Akbar Dareini (1999). The Rise and Fall of the Pahlavi Dynasty: Memoirs of Former General Hussein Fardust. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass. p. 123. ISBN 978-81-208-1642-8.
  2. Brezinski, Claude; Tournès, Dominique (6 August 2014). André-Louis Cholesky: Mathematician, Topographer and Army Officer. Springer. ISBN 978-3-319-08135-9.
  3. Rahnema, Ali (24 November 2014). Behind the 1953 Coup in Iran: Thugs, Turncoats, Soldiers, and Spooks. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-107-07606-8.
  4. Dr. Baqer Agheli (1387), "روزشمار تاريخ ايران: از مشروطه تا انقلاب اسلامي", Chronology of Iran's History from Constitutionalism to the Islamic Revolution Volume Two, Tehran: Namek, p. 23, ISBN 964-6895-53-0
  5. Hugh Montgomery-Massingberd (1980). Burke's Royal Families of the World. Vol. II. Burke's Peerage. p. 149. ISBN 0-85011-029-7.
  6. James D Cockcroft (1989). Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, Shah of Iran. New York; Philadelphia, PA: Chelsea House Publishers. p. 79. ISBN 9781555468477.

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