Amanullah Jahanbani

Amanullah Jahanbani

Amanullah Jahanbani
Ministry of War
Monarch Mohammad Reza Phlavi
Prime Minister Ali Soheili
Minister of Interior / Ministry of Roads
Assumed office
1941
Prime Minister Mohammad Ali Foroughi
5 Period Senate
Personal details
Born 1895
Died 1974 (aged 78–79)
Robat Karim
Nationality  Iran
Children From oldest , Masoud Mirza , Hossein Mirza, Hmid mirza, Nader , Magid, Parviz, Mahmoud, Khosrow
Occupation chief of office of Industries and Business
Profession Military and politician
Military service
Service/branch Imperial Iranian army
Rank Lieutenant general

Sepahbod (Lieutenant General) Amanollah Jahanbani (1895–1974) (Persian: سپهبد امان‌الله جهانبانى‎‎) was a member of the Qajar dynasty[1] and a senior general of Reza Shah Pahlavi.

Early life and education

Jahanbani was born in 1895. He was the great grandson of Fath Ali Shah.[2] At the age of 10, Jahānbāni was sent to St. Petersburg for schooling, where he attended the Mihailovsky Artillery College and the Nikolaevsky War Academy.[3] He returned to Iran as a ranked military officer in World War I.

He furthermore served in the Persian Cossack Brigade and was a pivotal figure in the 1921 Persian coup d'état.[4]

Career

During a second trip, after completing his studies in Europe, Jahanbani became major general in the Armed Forces. He was appointed the chief of the staff with the rank of brigadier general at the beginning of the 1920s.[5] In 1928, he led the army in Balochistan attack to control the resistance.[6] His path of success continued until 1938, when he fell out of favor and was suddenly thrown into the Qasr prison by Reza Shah Pahlavi.[7] However, in 1941 he was interior minister.[8]

With Reza Shah's abdication during World War II, his political life saw some luck again and he was appointed to the Senate during the era of Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi where he served during five consecutive periods.

Personal life and death

Jahanbani married twice. He had nine children. His first wife, Helen Kasminsky, bore him four children; Nader, Parviz, Khosrow, and Mehr Moneer. Nader became the deputy head of the Imperial Iranian Air Force, Parviz was an officer in the Imperial Iranian Marines, and Khosrow is the second husband of Princess Shahnaz Pahlavi. Amanullah is the father-in-law of Captain Nasrollah Amanpour, the uncle of CNN journalist Christiane Amanpour.[9]

Jahanbani died in 1974 at the age of 83.

Jahanbani wrote the book "Iranian Soldier: Meaning of Water and ground" , the story of hid life periods like, educating and serving. this book published in 2001 with try of his son Parviz Jahanbani. [10]

References

  1. ↑ The Pahlavi Dynasty Royal Ark Retrieved 25 November 2013
  2. ↑ "Centers of Power in Iran" (PDF). CIA. May 1972. Retrieved 5 August 2013.
  3. ↑ "The Qajar Dynasty (Jahanbani) GENEALOGY". Retrieved 30 October 2015.
  4. ↑ "The Qajar Dynasty (Jahanbani) GENEALOGY". Retrieved 30 October 2015.
  5. ↑ Stephanie Cronin (17 October 2006). Tribal Politics in Iran: Rural Conflict and the New State, 1921-1941. Routledge. p. 62. ISBN 978-1-134-13801-2. Retrieved 6 August 2013.
  6. ↑ Naseer Dashti (8 October 2012). The Baloch and Balochistan: A Historical Account from the Beginning to the Fall of the Baloch State. Trafford Publishing. p. 280. ISBN 978-1-4669-5897-5. Retrieved 6 August 2013.
  7. ↑ Ervand Abrahamian (1999). Tortured Confessions: Prisons and Public Recantations in Modern Iran. University of California Press. p. 46. ISBN 978-0-520-92290-7. Retrieved 6 August 2013.
  8. ↑ Mohammad Gholi Majd (2012). August 1941: The Anglo-Russian Occupation of Iran and Change of Shahs. University Press of America. p. 360. ISBN 978-0-7618-5940-6. Retrieved 6 August 2013.
  9. ↑ News Fars News
  10. ↑ ""Iranian Soldier: Meaning of Water and ground"".

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