Parviz Camran Radji
Parviz Camran Radji (born October 15, 1936 in Tehran , † March 23, 2014 in London ) was an Iranian diplomat and the last ambassador to London under Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi .
Life
Parviz Radjii was born in Tehran in 1936 as the son of an orthopedic surgeon. Parviz attended Alborz College in Tehran after elementary school, then Hill School in the USA . After graduating from high school, 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 later Prime Minister Amir Abbas Hoveyda headed the NIOC during this time. He became aware of Parviz Radjii and made him his assistant. When Prime Minister Hassan Ali Mansour was assassinated in 1965 and Hoveyda succeeded him, Radji worked for four years as the private secretary in Prime Minister Hoveyda's office.
Through Hoveyda he got to know Princess Aschraf Pahlavi , who was Iran's representative on the United Nations Human Rights Commission and chair of numerous foundations. From 1970 to 1973 Radji worked in Princess Aschraf's office at the Iranian UN delegation in New York.
In 1973 Radjii returned to Iran and was special advisor to Prime Minister Hoveyda until 1976. From 1976 Radji was sent to London as an ambassador. Radji was the Iranian ambassador in London from June 4, 1976 to January 26, 1979. On January 16, 1979, when Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi had left Iran, Radji was informed by telephone from Ahmad Mirfendereski, the new foreign minister of Prime Minister Shapur Bakhtiar , that he was no longer Iran's ambassador in London. Radji went to his office for a few more days, packed his personal belongings and finally left the embassy on January 26, 1979.
Parviz C. Radji did not return to Iran, but stayed in Great Britain and lived in London until the end.
Web links
- Cyrus Kadivar: Ex-ambassador - "I was never one of those people who admired the Shah". In: The Iranian of July 30, 2002 (English)
- Parviz Radji - obituary. In: The Daily Telegraph of April 24, 2014 (English)
| predecessor | Office | successor |
|---|---|---|
| Syed Mohamad Reza Amir Teymour |
Persian Ambassador to London June 1976–1979 |
Gholam-Ali Afrouz |
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Radji, Parviz Camran |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Iranian diplomat and the last ambassador to London under Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 15, 1936 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Tehran |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 23, 2014 |
| Place of death | London |