Hamid Reza Pahlavi
{{Short description|Iranian royal}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2021}}
{{Infobox royalty
| image = Hamid Reza Pahlavi.jpg
| caption =
| spouse = {{marriage|Minou Dowlatshahi|1951||end=div}}
{{marriage|Homa Khameneh|1959||end=div}}
{{marriage|Houri Khameneh|1974}}
| issue = Niloufar Pahlavi
Behzad Pahlavi
Nazak Pahlavi
Ja'afar Pahlavi Mohammad larijani
| house = Pahlavi
| father = Reza Shah
| mother = Esmat Dowlatshahi
| birth_date = 4 July 1932
| birth_place = Tehran, Imperial State of Persia
(present-day Iran)
| death_date = {{death date and age|1992|7|12|1932|7|4|df=yes}}
| death_place = Tehran, Iran
| place of burial = Behesht-e Zahra
}}
Hamid Reza Pahlavi ({{langx|fa|حمیدرضا پهلوی}}; 4 July 1932 – 12 July 1992) was Reza Shah's eleventh and last born child, and a half-brother of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the last shah of Iran.
Early life and education
Hamid Reza Pahlavi was born on 4 July 1932. He was the youngest son of Reza Shah and his fourth and favourite wife, Esmat Dowlatshahi.{{cite book|author=Diana Childress|title=Equal Rights Is Our Minimum Demand: The Women's Rights Movement in Iran 2005|url=https://archive.org/details/equalrightsisour0000chil|url-access=registration|year=2011|publisher=Twenty-First Century Books|isbn=978-0-7613-7273-8|page=[https://archive.org/details/equalrightsisour0000chil/page/40 40]}}{{cite book|editor1=Gholamali Haddad Adel|editor2=Mohammad Jafar Elmi|editor3=Hassan Taromi Rad|title=Pahlavi Dynasty: An Entry from Encyclopaedia of the World of Islam|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jRZ227eqm4sC&pg=PA172|date=1 October 2012|publisher=MIU Press|isbn=978-1-908433-01-5|page=144}} His parents married in 1923.{{cite web|title=Reza Shah Pahlavi|url=http://www.iranchamber.com/history/reza_shah/reza_shah.php|publisher=Iran Chamber Society|accessdate=16 July 2013}}{{cite book|author=Gholam Reza Afkhami|title=The Life and Times of the Shah|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pTVSPmyvtkAC&pg=PA605|date=13 December 2008|publisher=University of California Press|isbn=978-0-520-94216-5|page=605}} His mother was a member of the Qajar dynasty.{{Cite book |last=Afkhami |first=Gholam Reza |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pTVSPmyvtkAC&pg=PA605 |title=The Life and Times of the Shah |date=2009-01-12 |publisher=University of California Press |isbn=978-0-520-94216-5 |pages=605 |language=en}} Of both his parents he had four siblings: Abdul Reza Pahlavi, Ahmad Reza Pahlavi, Mahmoud Reza Pahlavi and Fatemeh Pahlavi.{{cite book|author=Edgar Burke Inlow|title=Shahanshah: The Study of Monarchy of Iran|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-2SWMAFL1JoC&pg=PA91|date=1 January 1979|publisher=Motilal Banarsidass|isbn=978-81-208-2292-4|page=91}} They lived in the Marble Palace in Tehran with their parents.
He studied in the United States and in Tehran. While attending high school in Washington, D.C., (the Honeywell Foundation) in September 1947, he skipped school to take a train to Hollywood, California, to visit his brother, Mahmoud, who was studying at UCLA. He stated that he did so because his high school did not have girl students and he was homesick. He had acted similarly three months previously, leaving his high school in Newport, Rhode Island, to travel to Paris and Provincetown."Hamid flies coop again. School without girls fails to charm Iranian Prince." The Philadelphia Inquirer, 18 September 1947
Personal life
Hamid Reza married three times and had four children. He first married Minou Dowlatshahi (daughter of Shahzada ‘Abdu’l Fath Mirza, of the Dowlatshahi family, Governor-General of Fars) in Tehran in March 1951.{{cite web|title=Dowlatshahi family|url=http://www.qajarpages.org/dowlatshahifampics.html|publisher=Qajar Pages|accessdate=19 July 2013}} Of this marriage he got a daughter, born 1953. In 1959 he married Homa Khameneh, by whom he had two children.{{cite web|title=Nazak|url=http://www.argentic-photo.com/photographer-bio-1935.html|work=Argentic|accessdate=16 July 2013}} In 1974 Hamid Reza married Houri Khameneh, by whom he had one child, born 1975. Hamid also adopted Houri’s son Mohammad Reza larijani, born 1961, from a previous marriage
One of his sons lived in the United Kingdom for a while, but he was brought by Shah Mohammad Reza to Iran and attended a military school in Tehran.{{cite book|author=Asadollah Alam|author-link=Asadollah Alam|title=The Shah and I|year=1991|publisher=IB Tauris|location=London and New York|isbn=1-85043-340-2|page=245}}
Due to his scandalous lifestyle, Hamid Reza's title of prince was removed and the Shah banned him from the court. In the 1960s he became known as a leading figure in opium trafficking business.{{cite book |author=Maziyar Ghiabi|title=Drugs Politics: Managing Disorder in the Islamic Republic of Iran|date=June 2019 |publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-1108475457|url=https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108567084|doi=10.1017/9781108567084}}
Later years and death
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After the Iranian Revolution that overthrew Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Hamid Reza stayed in Iran and changed his name to FaFar Islami. However, he was arrested as a vagrant in 1986.{{cite news|title=Late Shah's brother interviewed in prison|url=https://newspaperarchive.com/indiana-gazette/1989-08-02/page-4|accessdate=19 July 2013|newspaper=The Indiana Gazette|date=2 August 1989}} He received a sentence of ten years in Evin prison on drug charges. In an interview held in prison in 1989, Pahlavi however stated that he was sentenced for his family connections. He also said that he was not treated badly in prison and "things could be worse". Inmates in his prison cell included a former general and senior officials of the Shah's regime. In July 1992, while serving his sentence, he died of a heart attack.{{cite news|title=Hamid Reza Pahlavi
|url=https://www.orlandosentinel.com/1992/07/15/hamid-reza-pahlavi/|access-date=16 July 2013|newspaper=Orlando Sentinel|date=15 July 1992}}
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Category:Burials at Behesht-e Zahra