Ali Reza Pahlavi (born 1966)
{{Short description|Iranian prince (1966–2011)}}
{{About|the son of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi|his uncle of the same name|Ali Reza Pahlavi (born 1922)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2021}}
{{Infobox royalty
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| caption = Prince Ali Reza in 1976
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| issue = Iryana Leila Pahlavi
| birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1966|4|28}}
| birth_place = Tehran, Imperial State of Iran
| death_date = {{Death date and age|df=y|2011|1|4|1966|4|28}}
| death_place = Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
| house = Pahlavi
| father = Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
| mother = Farah Pahlavi
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Ali Reza Pahlavi ({{langx|fa|علیرضا پهلوی}}; 28 April 1966 – 4 January 2011) was a member of the Pahlavi imperial family of the Imperial State of Iran. He was the younger son of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the former Shah of Iran[https://books.google.com/books?id=ugWP-IPW5yAC&q=Prince+Ali+Reza+Pahlavi Yearbook of the Encyclopedia Americana] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160603121131/https://books.google.com/books?id=ugWP-IPW5yAC&q=Prince+Ali+Reza+Pahlavi&dq=Prince+Ali+Reza+Pahlavi&lr=&cd=5 |date=3 June 2016 }} - Page 37 and his third wife Farah Diba.{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Wy5XAAAAMAAJ |title=The Middle East and North Africa |publisher=Europa Publications |year=1977 |isbn=978-0-905118-11-6 |access-date=11 September 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191215201413/https://books.google.com/books?id=Wy5XAAAAMAAJ |archive-date=15 December 2019 |url-status=live}} He was second in order of succession to the Iranian throne before the Iranian Revolution.
Biography
Ali Reza Pahlavi was born on 28 April 1966.[https://books.google.com/books?id=5G8KAAAAIAAJ&q=Prince+Ali+Reza+Pahlavi The Statesman's year-book] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160521143044/https://books.google.com/books?id=5G8KAAAAIAAJ&q=Prince+Ali+Reza+Pahlavi&dq=Prince+Ali+Reza+Pahlavi&lr=&cd=8 |date=21 May 2016 }}, Volume 110 - Page 1046{{Cite web |last=Scott |first=Marcia |date=4 January 2011 |title=AFP: Son of Iran shah commits suicide in US: family |url=https://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5isIRLO9nOsEaIKMGw-fCyF_5TGnQ?docId=CNG.4844c10793df1183202908033c62a66e.7c1 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110107131537/http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5isIRLO9nOsEaIKMGw-fCyF_5TGnQ?docId=CNG.4844c10793df1183202908033c62a66e.7c1 |archive-date=7 January 2011 |access-date=8 February 2011}} He attended the Niavaran Palace primary school in Iran{{Cite web |title=Ali Reza Pahlavi |url=http://www.farahpahlavi.org/alireza.html |url-status=dead |publisher=farahpahlavi.org |accessdate=25 August 2011 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110726051242/http://www.farahpahlavi.org/alireza.html |archivedate=26 July 2011}} but left Iran alongside his family shortly before the Iranian revolution. He moved to the U.S. where he attended Saint David's School in New York City and Mt Greylock Regional High School in Williamstown, Massachusetts.{{Cite web |title=Ali Reza Pahlavi |url=http://www.farahpahlavi.org/alireza.html |url-status=dead |publisher=Farah Pahlavi |accessdate=9 January 2011 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110207111628/http://www.farahpahlavi.org/alireza.html |archivedate=7 February 2011}} Pahlavi received a BA degree from Princeton University, an MA degree from Columbia University,[http://www.fozoolemahaleh.com/2011/01/05/در-گذشت-شاهزاده-علی-رضا-پهلوی ضایعه در گذشت شاهزاده گرامی میهنمان علی رضا پهلوی] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181222093859/http://www.fozoolemahaleh.com/2011/01/05/%D8%AF%D8%B1-%DA%AF%D8%B0%D8%B4%D8%AA-%D8%B4%D8%A7%D9%87%D8%B2%D8%A7%D8%AF%D9%87-%D8%B9%D9%84%DB%8C-%D8%B1%D8%B6%D8%A7-%D9%BE%D9%87%D9%84%D9%88%DB%8C |date=22 December 2018 }}, and was studying at Harvard University as a PhD student in ancient Iranian studies and philology at the time of his death.{{Cite news |date=5 January 2011 |title=News / International: Son of former Iranian shah found dead in Boston |work=The Hindu |location=Chennai, India |url=http://www.thehindu.com/news/international/article1034537.ece |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121026125619/http://www.thehindu.com/news/international/article1034537.ece |archive-date=26 October 2012 |accessdate=8 February 2011}}
He was engaged in 2001 to Sarah Tabatabai, but it seems that the relationship ended some time afterwards.[https://www.welt.de/print-welt/article487599/Ein_Herz_und_keine_Krone.html "Ein Herz und keine Krone"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081009205302/http://www.welt.de/print-welt/article487599/Ein_Herz_und_keine_Krone.html |date=9 October 2008 }}. Die Welt. 16 November 2001. He made one of his rare public appearances in 2005 at the funeral of Prince Rainier of Monaco in Monte-Carlo, alongside his mother Farah Diba.{{cite web | url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/jan/05/alireza-pahlavi-death-iran-shah | title=Shah of Iran's son Alireza Pahlavi found dead at US home | work=The Guardian | date=5 January 2011 }} From 2007 to 2011 he was in a relationship with Raha Didevar, to whom he became engaged in 2010.{{cite web | url=https://dopcabliss.weebly.com/reza-pahlavi.html | title=Reza Pahlavi }} Their daughter, Iryana Leila Pahlavi was born in July 26, 2011 in Boston. He was once voted one of the "world's most eligible princes."{{Cite web |last=Steven Hoffer |date=4 January 2011 |title=Prince Ali Reza Pahlavi Commits Suicide: 5 Facts About the Shah of Iran's Son |url=http://www.aolnews.com/2011/01/04/prince-ali-reza-pahlavi-commits-suicide-5-facts-about-the-shah/ |url-status=dead |publisher=Aolnews.com |accessdate=8 February 2011 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110208004625/http://www.aolnews.com/2011/01/04/prince-ali-reza-pahlavi-commits-suicide-5-facts-about-the-shah/ |archivedate=8 February 2011}}
Death
After a long period of depression, on 4 January 2011 Pahlavi died in his apartment in the South End, Boston, (141 West Newton Street){{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=akrUDwAAQBAJ&dq=pahlavi++141+West+Newton+Street&pg=PA47 | title=My Shadow is My Skin: Voices from the Iranian Diaspora | isbn=9781477320273 | last1=Whitney | first1=Katherine | last2=Emery | first2=Leila | date=16 March 2020 | publisher=University of Texas Press }} from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.{{Cite news |date=4 January 2011 |title=Alireza Pahlavi Suicide: Iran Shah's Son Killed Himself In Boston, Says Brother |work=HuffPost |url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/04/alireza-pahlavi-suicide-i_n_804347.html |url-status=bot: unknown |accessdate=4 September 2016 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110107103341/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/04/alireza-pahlavi-suicide-i_n_804347.html |archivedate=7 January 2011}}
Mahnaz Afkhami, the former Iranian Minister of Women's Affairs of the Shah's government, told the BBC World Service that Pahlavi and his family being forced into exile in 1979 was very "traumatic" for him and that he had experienced a "loss of identity" in exile.{{Cite news |date=5 January 2011 |title=Shah of Iran's younger son kills himself in US |work=BBC News |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-12115006 |url-status=live |accessdate=5 January 2011 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110105090115/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-12115006 |archivedate=5 January 2011}} Ali Reza's sister, Leila Pahlavi also had died by suicide, in June 2001. Close family friends say that Ali Reza became very depressed after the death of his sister to whom he was very close.{{Cite news |date=7 January 2011 |title=Former shah of Iran's youngest son dead in apparent suicide |newspaper=The Washington Post |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/01/05/AR2011010506156.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121113031403/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/01/05/AR2011010506156.html |archive-date=13 November 2012 |accessdate=7 January 2011}} He was survived by his mother, Farah Pahlavi, his older brother Reza, his sister Farahnaz, half-sister Shahnaz,{{Cite news |date=5 January 2011 |title=Son of former shah of Iran commits suicide |work=CNN |url=http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/01/04/shah.son.suicide/index.html |url-status=live |accessdate=4 September 2016 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110106083341/http://articles.cnn.com/2011-01-04/us/shah.son.suicide_1_shah-mohammed-reza-pahlavi-suicide?_s=PM%3AUS |archivedate=6 January 2011}} daughter and partner.{{Cite web |title=Announcement of Birth |url=http://en.rezapahlavi.org/2011/08/05/announcement-of-birth |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170417154943/http://en.rezapahlavi.org/2011/08/05/announcement-of-birth/ |archive-date=17 April 2017 |website=Reza Pahlavi website |accessdate=16 April 2017}}
His brother Reza Pahlavi said that his wish was to be cremated and for his ashes to be scattered in the Caspian Sea.{{Cite web |date=4 January 2011 |title=Dead son of Iran's last Shah to be cremated |url=http://www.euronews.net/2011/01/06/dead-son-of-irans-last-shah-to-be-cremated/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110312103024/http://www.euronews.net/2011/01/06/dead-son-of-irans-last-shah-to-be-cremated/ |archive-date=12 March 2011 |website=Euronews |accessdate=8 February 2011}}
On 23 January 2011, an official memorial was held in The Music Center at Strathmore in Bethesda, Maryland.{{Cite web |title=Memorial Ceremony For Prince Alireza Pahlavi |url=http://www.rezapahlavi.org/details_article.php?english&article=490 |url-status=dead |website=Reza Pahlavi website |accessdate=13 January 2011 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110116000254/http://www.rezapahlavi.org/details_article.php?english&article=490 |archivedate=16 January 2011}} The memorial was attended by the former Iranian imperial family and thousands of Iranians.{{Cite web |date=25 January 2011 |title=Thousands attend memorial services for Alireza Pahlavi in Maryland |url=http://www.payvand.com/news/11/jan/1246.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180922035812/http://www.payvand.com/news/11/jan/1246.html |archive-date=22 September 2018 |website=Payvand |accessdate=7 January 2011}}
References
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External links
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- [https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-12115006 Shah's Son Killed himself BBC]
- [http://www.pahlavi.org/ Pahlavi Dynasty's Website]
- [http://www.farahpahlavi.org/ Empress Farah Pahlavi Official Web Site]
- [http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/293359/Iran/32185/The-Pahlavi-dynasty-1925-79 Britannica Online - Pahlavi Dynasty]
- [http://www.aryamehr.org/aryamehreng.htm Devoted to Aryamehr]
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