Ardeshir Zahedi

Ardeshir Sahedi (Persian اردشیر زاهدی Ardeŝir Zahedi; born October 16, 1928) was an important Iranian diplomat during the 1960s and 1970s. Zahedi was a member of the party Rastachiz.

Early years

He was born in 1928 as son of General and Prime Minister Fazlollah Zahedi. Ardeshir Zahedi received a doctoral degree in agriculture in 1950 at the State University of Utah, where he was a member of Kappa Sigma. Seven years later he married the daughter of the Shah of Persia, Princess Schahnaz Pahlavi; the marriage ended in 1964 with a divorce.

Political career

Zahedi served from 16 March 1960 to 3 March 1962 as Iran's ambassador to the United States from 1962 to 1966 as ambassador to the United Kingdom. Under Prime Minister Amir Abbas Hoveida he was on 3 March 1966 to 1971 Minister of Foreign Affairs of Iran.

Zahedi was born on March 7, 1973 again ambassador to the United States and served there until the Islamic Revolution in January 1979. Middle of the 1970s was Zahedi companion of movie star Elizabeth Taylor, the two as "the hottest couple " in Washington DC were known. During the Hanafi riots in 1977 Zahedi step at a hostage-taking of a federal building in Washington, along with two other ambassadors of Muslim nations as an intermediary, brought the hostage-takers to the task and the release of 149 hostages.

1978 Zahedi urged the Shah to appease the Islamist insurgents in Iran by the fact that several high-ranking officials such as the Prime Minister Hoveida and SAVAK director Nematollah Nassiri should be blamed for the current situation in Iran. When the Shah left Iran in 1979, Zahedi also served as ambassador in Washington, but stepped back as Ruhollah Khomeini took power in Iran. Zahedi supported the ailing Shah and his family political asylum in Panama, Mexico, Morocco and finally to gain in Egypt. He was at the deathbed of the Shah and took part in his funeral in 1980 in Cairo part.

Later years

Zahedi is now retired and lives in the Swiss town of Montreux. He received honorary doctorates of Law and Humanities from the State University of Utah, from the Osttexanischen State University, the State University Kent, the Saint Louis University, the University of Texas, the State University of Montana, the Washington College, the Westminster College, Harvard University of Chungang University of Seoul and the College of Political and Social Science of Lima in Peru. In December 1976 Zahedi was awarded at a ceremony in Washington Kappa Sigma Fraternity with the ' Man of the Year ' Award. He was inducted into the Alumni Hall of Honor of the Utah State University College of Agriculture 2002.

In an interview in May 2006, Zahedi printed his support for the Iranian nuclear program because he sees it as " an inalienable right of Iran " under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT ). He told Voice of America that the United States had accepted the beginning of the 50 billion -euro nuclear program in the 1970s. Two documents in particular, on April 22, 1975 April 20, 1976, would show that the United States and the Empire of Persia were holding negotiations on a nuclear program, and that the U.S. was willing to Persia in the construction of plants for uranium enrichment and fuel reprocessing to help.

Bibliography

  • Ardeshir Zahedi ( اردشیر زاهدی ), The Memoirs of Ardeshir Zahedi: Volume One [ Persian Language] ( Khaterat Ardeshir Zahedi -e - خاطرات اردشیر زاهدی ), ( Ibex Publishers). ISBN 978-1-58814-038-8.
  • Ardeshir Zahedi ( اردشیر زاهدی ), The Memoirs of Ardeshir Zahedi: Volume Two [ Persian Language] ( Khaterat Ardeshir Zahedi -e - خاطرات اردشیر زاهدی ), ( Ibex Publishers). ISBN 978-1-58814-065-4.
  • Ardeshir Zahedi, The Memoirs of Ardeshir Zahedi: Volume One [English ] ( Ibex Publishers). ISBN 978-1-58814-073-9.
  • ' Ali Riza Awsatí ( عليرضا اوسطى ), Iran in the past three centuries ( Irān represent Se Qarn -e Gozashteh - 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).
  • Fereydoun Hoveyda, The Fall of the Shah, translated by Roger Liddell ( Wyndham Books, New York, 1980). ISBN 0-671-61003-1, ISBN 978-0-671-61003-6.
  • The 38 Hours: Trial by Terror, Time magazine. 1977-93-21 ​​.
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