Mozaffar Firouz (Persian: مظفر فیروز) (6 August 1906 – 5 April 1988) was the eldest son of prince

Firouz Mirza Nosrat-ed-Dowleh Farman Farmaian III Prince Firouz Nosrat-ed-Dowleh III (Persian: شاهزاده فیروز نصرت‌الدوله سوم), GCMG (1889–1937) was the eldest son of Prince Abdol-Hossein Farmanfarma and Princess Ezzat-ed-Dowleh Qajar. He was born in 1889 and died in ...

by his first wife,Amena, sister of Mohammed Mossadegh and daughter of

Najm al-Saltaneh Badr al-Molouk Qajar or Malek Taj Firouz, (1853 – November 4, 1932) nicknamed ''Najm al-Saltaneh'' () was an Iranian princess of the Qajar dynasty and the founder of the first modern hospital in Tehran, Najmieh Hospital. Early life Najm w ...

. Born in Tehran on 6 August 1906, he attended in

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and

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. He worked in the Iranian embassy in

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, from 1928 to 1930 and represented Iran at the International Aeronautical conference in 1928. He was minister of labour in 1946 and ambassador to the

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from 1946 to 1947. He married Princess Mahin Dowlatshahi in 1937. He fled Iran during the 1979 revolution to France and died in

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on 5 April 1988. He was editor of the newspaper ''Rad Emrouz'' from 1942 to 1945.

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