Ahmad Amir-Ahmadi
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Sepahbod Ahmad Amir-Ahmadi (1884 – 1974) was a military leader and cabinet Minister of Iran.
Born in 1884 in Isfahan, of an aristocratic Persian family, he is one of the planners of the coup d'état of Reza Pahlavi and Seyyed Zia'eddin Tabatabaee against the Qajar dynasty. He is the first person to receive the rank of "sepahbod" (corps general or lieutenant general) under Reza Shah Pahlavi. He and his brother-in-law Heydargholli Pessian had planned to create a more democratic Iran but he later told his sister that 'the British would not allow it'.[1]
He served as Minister of War in the cabinet of Ali Soheili in 1942, and Abdolhosein Hazhir in 1948.
He also served as Senator in the Majlis.
It was said he was the only man Reza Pahlavi truly respected and feared. His sister was married into the Pessian family,[2] and after the assassination of Colonel Pessian, she arranged for his body to be hidden from Reza Pahlavi.
References used
The following reference was used for the above writing: 'Alí Rizā Awsatí (عليرضا اوسطى), Iran in the Past Three Centuries (Irān dar Se Qarn-e Goz̲ashteh - 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). Love and Death Among the Ayatollahs(ISBN 9780340617946)
See also
- Pahlavi Dynasty
- Amir Abdollah Tahmasebi
- Sar-Lashkar Muhammad-Hussein Ayrom
- Abdolhossein Teymourtash
- Sar Lashgar Buzarjomehri
- Mahmud Khan Puladeen
- Amanullah Jahanbani
- Colonel Pessian
- Bahram Aryana
