Sepahbod Ahmad Amir-Ahmadi (1884 – 1974) was a military leader and cabinet Minister of
IranIran , officially the Islamic Republic of Iran is a country in Western Asia. The name Iran has been in use natively since the Sassanid period and came into international use from 1935, before which the country was known internationally as Persia...
.
Born in 1906 in
IsfahanIsfahan or Esfahan , historically also rendered in English as Ispahan or Hispahan, is located about 340 km south of Tehran and is the capital of Isfahan Province and Iran's third largest city...
, he is one of the planners of the coup d'état of
Reza PahlaviReza Pahlavi may refer to:*Reza Shah , aka Reza Shah Pahlavi, Shah of Persia from 1925 until 1935 and Shah of Iran from 1935 until 1941* Mohammad Reza Pahlavi , Shah of Iran from 1941 to 1979, son of Reza Shah...
and
Seyyed Zia'eddin TabatabaeeSeyyed Zia'eddin Tabatabaee was an Iranian politician and the Prime Minister of Iran from February to May 1921 under Ahmad Shah, the last Shah of the Qajar dynasty....
against the Qajar dynasty. He is the first person to receive the rank of "sepahbod" (major gerenal) under Reza Shah Pahlavi.
He served as Minister of War in the cabinet of
Ali SoheiliAli Soheili was a Prime Minister of Iran.Born in Tabriz, he served as Prime Minister in 1942, and Ambassador to Britain in 1953.The famous meeting between Winston Churchill, Stalin, and Roosevelt in Tehran took place during his administration....
in 1942, and Abdolhosein Hazhir in 1948.
He also served as Senator in the
MajlisMajlis , is an Arabic term meaning "a place of sitting" used to describe various types of formal legislative assemblies in countries with linguistic or cultural connections to Islamic countries. Also it is the equivalent of the term legislature in some Islamic-culture states...
.
It was said he was the only man Reza Pahlavi truly respected and feared.
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Sepahbod Ahmad Amir-Ahmadi (1884 – 1974) was a military leader and cabinet Minister of
IranIran , officially the Islamic Republic of Iran is a country in Western Asia. The name Iran has been in use natively since the Sassanid period and came into international use from 1935, before which the country was known internationally as Persia...
.
Born in 1906 in
IsfahanIsfahan or Esfahan , historically also rendered in English as Ispahan or Hispahan, is located about 340 km south of Tehran and is the capital of Isfahan Province and Iran's third largest city...
, he is one of the planners of the coup d'état of
Reza PahlaviReza Pahlavi may refer to:*Reza Shah , aka Reza Shah Pahlavi, Shah of Persia from 1925 until 1935 and Shah of Iran from 1935 until 1941* Mohammad Reza Pahlavi , Shah of Iran from 1941 to 1979, son of Reza Shah...
and
Seyyed Zia'eddin TabatabaeeSeyyed Zia'eddin Tabatabaee was an Iranian politician and the Prime Minister of Iran from February to May 1921 under Ahmad Shah, the last Shah of the Qajar dynasty....
against the Qajar dynasty. He is the first person to receive the rank of "sepahbod" (major gerenal) under Reza Shah Pahlavi.
He served as Minister of War in the cabinet of
Ali SoheiliAli Soheili was a Prime Minister of Iran.Born in Tabriz, he served as Prime Minister in 1942, and Ambassador to Britain in 1953.The famous meeting between Winston Churchill, Stalin, and Roosevelt in Tehran took place during his administration....
in 1942, and Abdolhosein Hazhir in 1948.
He also served as Senator in the
MajlisMajlis , is an Arabic term meaning "a place of sitting" used to describe various types of formal legislative assemblies in countries with linguistic or cultural connections to Islamic countries. Also it is the equivalent of the term legislature in some Islamic-culture states...
.
It was said he was the only man Reza Pahlavi truly respected and feared. His sister was married into the Pessian family, and after the assassination of Colonel Mohammad Pessian she arranged for his body to be hidden from Reza Pahlavi.
See also
- Pahlavi Dynasty
The Pahlavi dynasty ruled Iran from the crowning of Reza Shah Pahlavi in 1925, following the overthrow of Ahmad Shah Qajar, the last ruler of the Qajar dynasty, already weakened by Soviet and British occupation....
- Amir Abdollah Tahmasebi
Amir Abdollah Khan Tahmasebi was a senior military commander, instrumental in the fall of the Qajar dynasty and rise to power of Reza Shah Pahlavi....
- Mohammad Hosein Airom
Sar-lashgar Mohammad Hosein Ayrom was a senior military leader of the Pahlavi dynasty of Iran.Born in 1882 in Baku into an Azeri family, Ayrom began studies in Russia and soon began military training....
- Abdolhossein Teymourtash
- Sar Lashgar Buzarjomehri
- Mahmud Khan Puladeen
Major General Mahmud Khan Pulādeen was a senior military leader of the Reza Shah Pahlavi era.In 1921, he served as personal guard to Seyyed Zia'eddin Tabatabaee...
- Amanullah Jahanbani
Sepahbod Amanullah Jahanbani was a senior general of Reza Shah Pahlavi.At the age of 10, Jahānbāni was sent to St. Petersburg for schooling, and returned to Iran as a ranked military officer in World War I. During a second trip, after finishing his studies in Europe, he continued climbing in rank...
- Colonel Pesian
Colonel Mohammad Taqi-Khan Pessian , born in Tabriz, was a popular military leader of Iran....
- Bahram Aryana
Artesh-Boad Bahram Aryana was a top Iranian military commander in the Pahlavi II era of Iran.He was Georgian by descent, educated at École Spéciale Militaire de Saint-Cyr, and was instrumental in many of the nationalist policies in the 1950-1960s.After the occupation of Iran by the Soviet Union...