Order of the Crown (Iran)

{{Short description|Former Iranian royal order}}

{{Infobox order

|title = Order of the Crown

|image = 250px

|caption = Grand Cordon insignia of the Order

|image2 = 100px

|caption2 = Ribbon of the Order

|awarded_by =

Head of the Iranian Imperial Family

|type = Dynastic Order

|motto =

|day =

|eligibility =

|for =

|status =

|head_title = Sovereign

|head = Crown Prince Reza of Iran

|head2_title =

|head2 =

|chancellor =

|commander =

|grades = Knight/Dame Grand Cordon, Knight/Dame Grand Officer, Knight/Dame

|former_grades =

|date = 1913 - 1979 (National Order)
1979 - present (House Order)

|house = House of Pahlavi

|religion =

|higher = Order of the Lion and the Sun

|lower = Order of the Red Lion and the Sun

|same = Order of the Pleiades

|ribbon =

}}

The Order of the Crown ({{langx|fa|نشان تاج}}, Neshan-e Taj) was founded in 1913 (1332 AH){{cite web|title=Order of the Crown of Iran (Nishan-i-Taj-i-Iran)|url=http://www.medal-medaille.com/sold/product_info.php?cPath=69&products_id=5969|work=Medal Medaille|access-date=4 September 2013}} by Ahmad Shah Qajar before his coronation as the highest dynastical and state order. Until 1926 it existed in two classes (with breast star and sash for both). The 1st class had a collar (neck chain with badge as a pendant) reserved for the Shahanshah and the Crown-Prince. The Order was preserved in Iran after the fall of the Qajar dynasty.

The first Shah of the Pahlavi dynasty, Reza Shah, reformed the order at the end of the year in 1938/39. Until then, the sash was blue with thin green-white borders but, after the reform, it became corn-yellow with sky-blue edges.The order was the senior one after the dynastic Order of Pahlavi. It was abolished in 1979 following the Iranian revolution.