Amanullah Jahanbani

Born in 1895, Jahanbani was a great grandson of Fath-Ali Shah Qajar.{{cite web|title=Centers of Power in Iran|url=http://2001-2009.state.gov/documents/organization/70712.pdf|work=CIA|accessdate=5 August 2013|date=May 1972}} At the age of 10, he was sent to St. Petersburg for schooling, where he attended the Mihailovsky Artillery College and the Nikolaevsky War Academy.{{citation needed|date=August 2020}} He returned to Iran as a ranked military officer in World War I.

After completing his studies in Europe, Jahanbani joined the Cossack forces and became a major general.{{cite journal|author=Ahmed S. Hashim|title=The Iranian Armed Forces in Politics, Revolution and War: Part One|journal=Middle East Policy|date=Summer 2012|volume=XIX|issue=2|page=112|doi=10.1111/j.1475-4967.2012.00538.x|url=https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1475-4967.2012.00538.x}} On 6 December 1921 Jahanbani was named the commander of gendarmerie headquarters following the dissolution of the Cossack Division by Reza Shah. He was appointed the chief of the staff with the rank of brigadier general at the beginning of the 1920s.{{cite book|author=Stephanie Cronin|title=Tribal Politics in Iran: Rural Conflict and the New State, 1921-1941|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Zy75pASpaHkC&pg=PA62|year=2006|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-134-13801-2|page=62}} As of 1925 he was the head of military academy.{{cite thesis|author=Hooshmand Mirfakhraei|title=The Imperial Iranian Armed Forces and the Revolution of 1978-1979|url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/303350420|location=State University of New York at Buffalo|page=62|degree=PhD|date=1984|id={{ProQuest|303350420}}}} In 1928, he led the army in Balochistan attack to control the resistance.{{cite book|author=Naseer Dashti|title=The Baloch and Balochistan: A Historical Account from the Beginning to the Fall of the Baloch State|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=T0Jg3q33mkgC&pg=PA280|year=2012|publisher=Trafford Publishing|isbn=978-1-4669-5897-5|page=280}} His path of success continued until 1938, when he fell out of favor and was thrown into the Qasr prison by Reza Shah.{{cite book|author=Ervand Abrahamian|title=Tortured Confessions: Prisons and Public Recantations in Modern Iran|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ucTdH9sh1O0C&pg=PA46|year=1999|publisher=University of California Press|isbn=978-0-520-92290-7|page=46}}{{Additional citation needed|date=July 2023}} However, in 1941 he was named interior minister.{{cite book|author=Mohammad Gholi Majd|title=August 1941: The Anglo-Russian Occupation of Iran and Change of Shahs|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0Cdm5MRQ5lMC&pg=PA360|year=2012|publisher=University Press of America|isbn=978-0-7618-5940-6|page=360}}

When Reza Shah was forced to abdicate during World War II, he was appointed to the Senate during the era of Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi where he served for five consecutive periods.{{cite book|author=James A. Bill|title=The Eagle and the Lion. The Tragedy of American-Iranian Relations|date=1988|publisher=Yale University Press|location=New Haven and London|isbn=978-0-300-04412-6|url=https://doi.org/10.2307/1963329|page=99|doi=10.2307/1963329|jstor=1963329 |s2cid=142331831 }}

Jahanbani married twice. He had a total of nine children, four children with his second wife, Helen Kasminsky: Nader, Parviz, Khosrow, and Mehr Monir. Nader Jahanbani became the deputy head of the Imperial Iranian Air Force, Parviz was an officer in the Imperial Iranian Marines, and Khosrow was the second husband of Princess Shahnaz Pahlavi. Amanullah Jahanbani is the father-in-law of Captain Nasrollah Amanpour, and the uncle of CNN journalist Christiane Amanpour.[http://www.farsnews.com/newstext.php?nn=8410300143 News] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141221210357/http://www.farsnews.com/newstext.php?nn=8410300143 |date=21 December 2014 }} Fars News

Jahanbani died in 1974, at the age of 83.

He wrote an autobiography titled "Iranian Soldier: Meaning of Water and Soil," which was published in 2001 with the help of his son, Parviz Jahanbani.{{cite web|url=http://vista.ir/book/682523/%D8%B3%D8%B1%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B2-%D8%A7%DB%8C%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86%DB%8C-%D9%88-%D9%85%D9%81%D9%87%D9%88%D9%85-%D8%A2%D8%A8-%D9%88-%D8%AE%D8%A7%DA%A9-%28%D8%B2%D9%86%D8%AF%DA%AF%DB%8C%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%85%D9%87-%D8%AE%D9%88%D8%AF%D9%86%D9%88%D8%B4%D8%AA-%D8%B3%D9%BE%D9%87%D8%A8%D8%AF-%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%86%E2%80%8C%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%84%D9%87-%D8%AC%D9%87%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%86%DB%8C%29|title="Iranian Soldier: Meaning of Water and ground"}}

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• 'Alí Rizā Awsatí (عليرضا اوسطى), Iran in the Past Three Centuries (Irān dar Se Qarn-e Goz̲ashteh - ايران در سه قرن گذشته), Volumes 1 and 2 (Paktāb Publishing - انتشارات پاکتاب, Tehran, Iran, 2003). {{ISBN|964-93406-6-1}} (Vol. 1), {{ISBN|964-93406-5-3}} (Vol. 2).

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