|
Parviz Radji
Parviz Camran Radji ((Persian language, Persian: پرویز کامران راجی) 16 October 1936, Tehran – 23 March 2014, London) was an Iranian diplomat and the last List of Iranian Ambassadors to the United Kingdom, ambassador in London, under Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. Life Radji was the son of an orthopedic surgeon born in 1936 in Tehran. After finishing elementary school in Tehran, Radji attended Alborz High School in Tehran and then The Hill School in the United States. After graduation from high school he studied economics at Trinity Hall, Cambridge. Back in Iran, he began his career in 1959 at National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC), National Iranian Oil Company as a trainee. *By that time Amir-Abbas Hoveyda, future prime minister, who was the director of the Administration Department of NIOC appointed Radji as his assistant. In 1965 Prime Minister Hassan-Ali Mansur was killed in an attack and Hoveyda succeeded him as prime minister. Radji worked four years as p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Iranian Ambassadors To The United Kingdom
This is a list of Iranian ambassadors to the United Kingdom. *1608, Robert Shirley and Nakd Ali Beg *1809–1810, Mirza Abolhassan Khan Ilchi *1810, Set Khan Astvatsatourian *1839, Mirza Hossein Khan, Mirza Hossein Khan Moghaddam (Great Britain refused to receive him and rejected his mission) *1850–1855, Shafi' Khan (Chargé d'affaires) *1860–1861, Jafar Khan Moshir od-Dowleh *1862–1865, Mirza Mahmoud Khan ''Naser al-Molk'' (Minister Plenipotentiary) (:ru:Махмуд-хан Карагёзлу, ru) *1865–1867, Mirza Mohammad-Ali Khan (acting) *1867–1872, Mirza Mohsen Khan ''Moein ol-Molk'' (First as Chargé d'affaires then as Minister Resident and finally as Minister Plenipotentiary) (:de:Muhsin Khan, de) *1872–1889, Mirza Malkam Khan ''Nazem od-Dowleh'' (Minister Plenipotentiary) *1889–1906, Mohammad-Ali Ala al-Saltaneh, Mohammad-Ali Khan ''Ala os-Saltaneh'' (Minister Plenipotentiary) *1907–1920, Mehdi Khan ''Ala os-Saltaneh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Princess Ashraf Pahlavi
Ashraf ol-Molouk Pahlavi (, , 26 October 1919 – 7 January 2016) was the twin sister of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the late Shah of Iran (Name of Iran, Persia), and a member of the Pahlavi dynasty. She was considered the "power behind her brother" and was instrumental in the 1953 Iranian coup d'état, 1953 coup that overthrew Prime Minister of Iran, Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh in favour of strengthening the monarchical rule of the Shah. She served her brother as a palace adviser and was a strong advocate for Women's rights in Iran, women's rights. Following the Iranian revolution in 1979, she lived in exile in France, New York City, New York, Paris and Monte Carlo and remained outspoken against the History of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Iranian Islamic Republic. Early life Ashraf Pahlavi was born in Tehran on 26 October 1919, five hours after her brother Mohammad Reza. Her parents were Reza Shah, Reza Pahlavi, a military commander, who would become the Shah of Iran, and Tad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Hill School Alumni
''The'' is a grammatical article in English, denoting nouns that are already or about to be mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the most frequently used word in the English language; studies and analyses of texts have found it to account for seven percent of all printed English-language words. It is derived from gendered articles in Old English which combined in Middle English and now has a single form used with nouns of any gender. The word can be used with both singular and plural nouns, and with a noun that starts with any letter. This is different from many other languages, which have different forms of the definite article for different genders or numbers. Pronunciation In most dialects, "the" is pronounced as (with the voiced dental fricative followed by a schwa) when followed by a consonant sound, and as (homophone of the archaic pronoun ''thee' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Exiles Of The Iranian Revolution In The United Kingdom
Exile or banishment is primarily penal expulsion from one's native country, and secondarily expatriation or prolonged absence from one's homeland under either the compulsion of circumstance or the rigors of some high purpose. Usually persons and peoples suffer exile, but sometimes social entities like institutions (e.g. the papacy or a government) are forced from their homeland. In Roman law, denoted both voluntary exile and banishment as a capital punishment alternative to death. Deportation was forced exile, and entailed the lifelong loss of citizenship and property. Relegation was a milder form of deportation, which preserved the subject's citizenship and property. The term diaspora describes group exile, both voluntary and forced. "Government in exile" describes a government of a country that has relocated and argues its legitimacy from outside that country. Voluntary exile is often depicted as a form of protest by the person who claims it, to avoid persecution and prose ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ambassadors Of Iran To The United Kingdom
An ambassador is an official envoy, especially a high-ranking diplomat who represents a state and is usually accredited to another sovereign state or to an international organization as the resident representative of their own government or sovereign or appointed for a special and often temporary diplomatic assignment. The word is also used informally for people who are known, without national appointment, to represent certain professions, activities, and fields of endeavor, such as sales. An ambassador is the ranking government representative stationed in a foreign capital or country. The host country typically allows the ambassador control of specific territory called an embassy (which may include an official residence and an office, chancery, located together or separately, generally in the host nation's capital), whose territory, staff, and vehicles are generally afforded diplomatic immunity in the host country. Under the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, an ambass ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2014 Deaths
This is a list of lists of deaths of notable people, organized by year. New deaths articles are added to their respective month (e.g., Deaths in ) and then linked below. 2025 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000 1999 1998 1997 1996 1995 1994 1993 1992 1991 1990 1989 1988 1987 1986 Earlier years ''Deaths in years earlier than this can usually be found in the main articles of the years.'' See also * Lists of deaths by day * Deaths by year (category) {{DEFAULTSORT:deaths by year ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1936 Births
Events January–February * January 20 – The Prince of Wales succeeds to the throne of the United Kingdom as King Edward VIII, following the death of his father, George V, at Sandringham House. * January 28 – Death and state funeral of George V, State funeral of George V of the United Kingdom. After a procession through London, he is buried at St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle. * February 4 – Radium E (bismuth-210) becomes the first radioactive element to be made synthetically. * February 6 – The 1936 Winter Olympics, IV Olympic Winter Games open in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany. * February 10–February 19, 19 – Second Italo-Ethiopian War: Battle of Amba Aradam – Italian forces gain a decisive tactical victory, effectively neutralizing the army of the Ethiopian Empire. * February 16 – 1936 Spanish general election: The left-wing Popular Front (Spain), Popular Front coalition takes a majority. * February 26 – February 26 Incident (二・二六事件, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shapur Bakhtiar
Shapour Bakhtiar (, ; 26 June 19146 August 1991) was an Iranian politician who served as the last Prime Minister of Iran under the rule of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. In the words of the historian Abbas Milani: "more than once in the tone of a jeremiad he reminded the nation of the dangers of clerical despotism, and of how the fascism of the mullahs would be darker than any military junta." In 1991, he and his secretary were murdered in his home in Suresnes, France, by agents of the Islamic Republic. Early life Bakhtiar was born on 26 June 1914 in southwestern Iran into a family of Iranian tribal nobility, the family of the paramount chieftains of the then powerful Bakhtiari tribe. His father, Mohammad Reza Khan (''Sardar-e-Fateh''), and his mother, Naz-Baygom, were both Lurs and Bakhtiaris. Bakhtiar's maternal grandfather, Najaf-Gholi Khan Samsam ol-Saltaneh, had been appointed prime minister twice, in 1912 and 1918. Bakhtiar's mother died when he was seven. His father was execu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
