Pahlavi dynasty

{{See also|Pahlavi family tree}}

File:Celebration-of-Persia-2500-anniversary-391756974997.jpg, Mohammad Reza and Crown Prince Reza depicted in a card stunt at the 2,500-year celebration of the Persian Empire]]

In 1878, Reza Khan was born at the village of Alasht in Savadkuh County, Mazandaran Province. His parents were Abbas Ali Khan and Noushafarin Ayromlou.{{cite book|author=Gholam Reza Afkhami|title=The Life and Times of the Shah|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pTVSPmyvtkAC&pg=PP2|access-date=2 November 2012|date=27 October 2008|publisher=University of California Press|isbn=978-0-520-25328-5|page=4}}{{cite journal|last=Zirinsky|first=Michael P.|title=Imperial power and dictatorship: Britain and the rise of Reza Shah, 1921-1926|journal=International Journal of Middle East Studies|year=1992|volume=24|issue=4|pages=639–663|url=http://scholarworks.boisestate.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1001&context=history_facpubs&sei-redir=1&referer=http%3A%2F%2Fscholar.google.com%2Fscholar%3Fstart%3D20%26q%3Dlife%2Bof%2Bshah%2Bmohammed%2Breza%26hl%3Den%26as_sdt%3D0%2C5#search=%22life%20shah%20mohammed%20reza%22|access-date=2 November 2012|doi=10.1017/s0020743800022388|s2cid=159878744 |url-access=subscription}} His mother was a Muslim immigrant from Georgia (then part of the Russian Empire),{{cite book |quote="(..) His mother, who was of Georgian origin, died not long after, leaving Reza in her brother's care in Tehran. (...)."|title=The Life and Times of the Shah|first1= Gholam Reza |last1=Afkhami |publisher= University of California Press | date = 2009 |page=4 }}{{cite book |quote="(...) His mother, Nush Afarin, was a Georgian Muslim immigrant (...)."|title=The Pahlavi Dynasty: An Entry from Encyclopaedia of the World of Islam |author= GholamAli Haddad Adel |publisher= EWI Press | date = 2012 |page=3 |display-authors=etal}} whose family had emigrated to mainland Qajar Iran after Iran was forced to cede all of its territories in the Caucasus following the Russo-Persian Wars several decades prior to Reza Shah's birth.Homa Katouzian. [https://books.google.com/books?id=FzVANM0p29kC&dq=reza+shahs+mother+georgian&pg=PA269 "State and Society in Iran: The Eclipse of the Qajars and the Emergence of the Pahlavis"] I.B.Tauris, 2006. {{ISBN|978-1845112721}} p 269 His father was a Mazandarani, commissioned in the 7th Savadkuh Regiment, and served in the Anglo-Persian War in 1856.

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File:Prince Alireza Pahlavi.jpg, the heir presumptive until his death in 1954]]

The former constitution of Iran specifically provided that only a male who was not descended from Qajar dynasty could become the heir apparent.{{cite book |last1=Dareini |first1=Ali Akbar |title=The rise and fall of the Pahlavi dynasty |year=1999 |isbn=81-208-1642-0 |page=446 |publisher=Motilal Banarsidass Publ. |quote=2. The Shah gives another account for his separation with Fawzia. "For reasons still obscure to medical science, Queen Fawzia bore only one child; thus unfortunately no male heir issued from our marriage. Under the Persian Constitution the crown must pass by direct line of descent to a male heir. This rules out not only my daughter but also my three sisters. The Constitution further stipulates that no one descended from the previous Qajar dynasty is eligible to become king. Since two of my father’s wives were of Qajar blood, my half-brothers who are their sons are ineligible. In fact I had only one brother not related to the Qajar line, and to my sorrow he was to die in an aeroplane crash in 1954. With these limitations it is no wonder that my advisors felt it important for my wife to bear a son. It is true that the Constitution might have been amended, but the dimate of opinion seemed opposed to tampering with the provisions relating to the royal succession. Besides, I was young and, quite apart from the constitutional factor, I wanted more children. When Queen Fawzia went to Egypt on an extended stay, we decided on a divorce." Please see Mission for My Country His Imperial Majesty Mohammad Reza Shah Pahiavi, Hutchinson and Co. (Publishers) Ltd., London, 1961–1968; pp. 219–220}} This made all half-brothers of Mohammad Reza ineligible to become heirs to the throne. Until his death in 1954, the Shah's only full brother Ali Reza was his heir presumptive.

The constitution also required the Shah to be of Iranian descent, meaning that his father and mother are Iranian.{{cite book |last1=Hoyt|first1=Edwin Palmer |title=The Shah: The Glittering Story of Iran and Its People|publisher=P. S. Eriksson|year=1976 |isbn=9780839777533|page=49}}

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• 15px Reza Shah Pahlavi (1878–1944)
• {{Tree list/final branch}}15px Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi (1919–1980)
• (1) Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi (b. 1960)
• {{Tree list/final branch}} (2) Prince Ali-Reza Pahlavi (1966)
• {{Tree list/final branch}} Prince Ali-Reza Pahlavi (1922–1954)
• {{Tree list/final branch}} (3) Prince Patrick Ali Pahlavi (b. 1947)
• {{Tree list/final branch}} (4) Prince Davoud Pahlavi (b. 1972)
• {{Tree list/final branch}} (5) Prince Houd Pahlavi (b. 1973)
• {{Tree list/final branch}} (6) Prince Mohammad Pahlavi (b. 1976)

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• 15px Reza Shah Pahlavi (1878–1944)
• {{Tree list/final branch}}15px Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi (1919–1980)
• (1) Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi (b. 1960)
• {{Tree list/final branch}} Prince Ali-Reza Pahlavi (1966–2011)
• {{Tree list/final branch}} Prince Ali-Reza Pahlavi (1922–1954)
• {{Tree list/final branch}} (2) Prince Patrick Ali Pahlavi (b. 1947)
• {{Tree list/final branch}} (3) Prince Davoud Pahlavi (b. 1972)
• {{Tree list/final branch}} (4) Prince Houd Pahlavi (b. 1973)
• {{Tree list/final branch}} (5) Prince Rafaël Pahlavi (b. 2006)
• {{Tree list/final branch}} (6) Prince Mohammad Pahlavi (b. 1976)

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• Shâh: Emperor, followed by Shâhanshâh of Iran, with style His Imperial Majesty
• Shahbânu: Shahbânu or Empress, followed by first name, followed by "of Iran", with style Her Imperial Majesty
• Valiahd: Crown Prince of Iran, with style His Imperial Highness
• Younger sons: Prince (Shâhpūr, or King's Son), followed by first name and surname (Pahlavi), and style His Imperial Highness.
• Daughters: Princess (Shâhdokht, or King's Daughter), followed by first name and surname (Pahlavi), and style Her Imperial Highness.
• Children of the monarch's daughter/s use another version of Prince (Vâlâ Gohar, "of superior essence") or Princess (Vâlâ Gohari), which indicate descent in the second generation through the female line, and use the styles His Highness or Her Highness. This is then followed by first name and father's surname, whether he was royal or a commoner. However, the children by the last Shah's sister Fatemeh, who married an American businessman as her first husband, are surnamed Pahlavi Hillyer and do not use any titles.

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