Parviz C. Radji

Parviz Camran Radji ( b. 1936 in Tehran, † March 2014 in London) was an Iranian diplomat and the last ambassador to London under Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.

Life

Parviz Radjii was born the son of an orthopedic surgeon in 1936 in Tehran. Parviz attended after elementary school the Alborz College in Tehran, the Hill School in the USA. After his secondary education, he studied economics at Trinity College, Cambridge.

Back in Iran, he began his professional career in 1959 at the National Iranian Oil Company as a trainee. The Amir Abbas Hoveyda later prime minister initiated in this period, the NIOC. He became aware of Parviz Radjii and made ​​him his assistant. As Prime Minister Hassan Ali Mansour came in 1965 in an assassination attempt killed and Hoveyda became his successor, Radjifür worked for four years as a private secretary in the office of Prime Minister Hoveyda.

By Hoveyda Princess Ashraf Pahlavi, he learned to know who was the representative of Iran in the Human Rights Commission of the United Nations and Chairman of numerous foundations in this period. From 1970 to 1973 Radji worked in the office of Princess Ashraf from the Iranian UN delegation in New York.

1973 Radjii returned back to Iran and was until 1976 special adviser to Prime Minister Hoveyda. From 1976 Radji was sent as ambassador to London. Radji was on June 4, 1976 to January 26, 1979 Iranian ambassador in London. On January 16, 1979, when Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi had left Iran Radji by Ahmad Mirfendereski, the new Foreign Minister of Prime Minister Shapur Bakhtiar was taught them by phone that he was no longer Iranian ambassador in London. Radji went a few days in his office, packed his belongings and left the message finally on 26 January 1979.

Parviz C. Radji not returned back to Iran, but remained in the UK and lived until recently in London.