Ardeshir Zahedi

Ardeshir Zahedi (born October 16, 1928) was an important Iranian diplomat during the 1960s and 1970s, serving as the country's foreign minister and its ambassador to the United States and the United Kingdom. Image File history File linksMetadata Ardeshir_zahedi. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Ardeshir_zahedi. ... October 16 is the 289th day of the year (290th in Leap years). ... 1928 (MCMXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ...

Born in Tehran, he is the son of General Fazlollah Zahedi, who served as Prime Minister after the fall of Mohammed Mossadegh. The younger Zahedi received a degree in Agriculture from Utah State University in 1950. Seven years later, he married the daughter of the Shah of Iran, Princess Shahnaz Pahlavi; the marriage ended in divorce in 1964. Zahedi served as ambassador to the United States from 1959 to 1962 and to the United Kingdom from 1962 to 1966. Under Prime Minister Amir Abbas Hoveida, he served as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1966 to 1973. Map of Iran and surrounding lands, showing location of Tehran The towering Alborz mountains rising above modern Elahiyeh district and its green neighborhoods. ... Muhammad Fazlollah Zahedi (1897-1963) was an Iranian general and politician. ... Dr. Mohammad Mossadegh Dr. Mohammed Mossadegh (Persian: محمد مصدق‎) (May 19, 1882 - March 4, 1967) was prime minister of Iran from 1951 to 1953. ... Old Main building at Utah State University Utah State Universitys main campus is located in Logan, Utah. ... His Majesty Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi (اعلیحضرت محمدرضا شاه پهلوی; October 26, 1919 – July 27, 1980) also knows as Aryamehr, was the last Shah of Iran, ruling from 1941 until 1979. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... Prime Minister Amir Abbas Hoveyda Hoveyda appearing on a book cover. ...

Zahedi then became ambassador to the United States from 1973 until the Iranian Revolution began in January 1979. During his second stint in Washington, he won a reputation for extravagance by sending tins of Iranian caviar instead of thank-you cards to ambassadors who had invited him to parties. He allegedly purchased a large number of Vacheron Constantin watches as presents for government supporters. He was also a financial supporter of the presidential campaign of Gerald Ford in 1976. (Avsati, p818) In the 1970s, Zahedi became known as a companion of the American movie star Elizabeth Taylor, with the two being dubbed "the hottest couple" in Washington, D.C., according to the writer Barbara Howar. He later introduced Taylor to Senator John Warner of Virginia, and they eventually married. Protestors take to the street in support of Ayatollah Khomeini. ... A can of black Iranian caviar Russian salmon caviar on butterbrot Caviar is the processed, salted roe of various species of fish, most notably sturgeon. ... Vacheron Constantin is a swiss watch manufacturer. ... Gerald Rudolph Ford, Jr. ... Elizabeth Taylor Dame Elizabeth Rosemond Hilton Wilding Todd Fisher Burton Warner Fortensky Taylor DBE (born February 27, 1932) is an iconic two-time Academy Award-winning actress. ... John William Warner (born February 18, 1927) is an American statesman and politician, who served as Secretary of the Navy from 1972-1974 and has served as a Republican senator from Virginia since 1979. ...

Over the course of 1978, unrest broke out in Iran protesting the Shah's policies. It was reported in some circles that Zahedi urged the Shah to appease the rioters by making scapegoats of several high-ranking officials, including Hovieda (now Court Minister) and SAVAK directors Hassan Pakravan and Nematollah Nassiri. When the Shah fled Iran in 1979, Zahedi went into exile with him and was present at the Shah's death, in Cairo in 1980. SAVAK (Persian: ساواک, short for سازمان اطلاعات و امنیت کشور Sazeman-i Ettelaat va Amniyat-i Keshvar, Organization for Intelligence and National Security) was the domestic security and intelligence service of Iran from 1957–1979. ... Hassan Pakravan was an Iranian General and the second director of SAVAK, serving from 1961 to 1965. ... General Nematollah Nassiri was the director of SAVAK, the Iranian intelligence agency during the rule of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. ...

Zahedi is retired and living in Switzerland. He has received honorary Doctoral Degrees of Law and Humanities from the following American universities: The Utah State University, East Texas State University, Kent State University, St. Louis University, Texas University, Montana State University, Washington College, Westminster College and Harvard University. He also received honorary Doctoral Degrees from Chungang University of Seoul, and the College of Political and Social Science of Lima. In December 1976, in a ceremony held in Washington D.C., Mr. Zahedi was awarded the KAPPA Sigma Fraternity ‘Man of the Year’ Award. In 2002, he was inducted into to Alumni Hall of Honor of the Utah State University College of Agriculture. He has received many awards and honors from nations around the globe for his humanitarian service and record in international affairs.

See also

• Pahlavi Dynasty
• List of Prime Ministers of Iran

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References used

The following reference was used for the above writing:

• Alireza Avsati, "Iran in the last 3 Centuries". Published Tehran, 2003. Vol.1 ISBN 964-93406-6-1 Vol.2 ISBN 964-93406-5-3
• Hoveyda, Fereydoun. The Fall of the Shah. Trans. Roger Liddell. New York: Wyndham Books, 1980.

External links

• Ardeshir Zahedi's Official Web Site