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...Ardeshir Zahedi, Iranian Ambassador...
Last May in his capacity as Chief Supervisor of Iranian Students Abroad, the Shah's son-in-law Ardashir Zahedi discovered Farah Diba, the pretty young Iranian art student in Paris who last month ascended the Peacock Throne as the Shah's third wife (TIME, Jan. 4). Last week, for this and other services to the crown, tall, handsome Zahedi was appointed Iran's new Ambassador...
...Zahedi will be Washington's youngest ambassador. His father, General Fazlollah Zahedi, was the soldier who took over as Premier of Iran to restore order after weepy Mohammed Mossadegh's fall (the general is now Iran's roving ambassador to Western Europe). Son Ardashir earned an agricultural degree at Utah State University and, in the process, developed a great liking for the U.S. and U.S. ways. American officials gratefully remember him as the young engineer who worked tirelessly with them to make Point Four a success in Iran. The Shah is reportedly upset by increasing criticism...
Born. To Princess Shahnaz, 18, daughter of Iran's Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi (by his first wife, Princess Fawzia, sister of ex-King Farouk of Egypt), and Ardashir Zahedi, 29, Utah-educated agricultural engineer, son of ex-Premier Fazlollah Zahedi: their first child, a daughter; in Teheran. Name: Princess Zahra Mahnaz. Weight...
Married. Princess Shahnaz, 17, green-eyed daughter and only child of Iran's Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi (by his first wife, Egypt's Princess Fawzia, sister of ex-King Farouk); and Ardashir Zahedi, 28, U.S.-educated agricultural engineer, son of ex-Premier Fazlollah Zahedi (who helped to boot out weepy Mohammed Mossadegh in 1953 and was later himself edged out on charges of corruption); in Teheran's Royal Palace...