Shahriar Shafiq
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Prince Shahryar Shafiq (b 1945, Morocco-d. December 7, 1979) (in Persian: والاگهر شهریار شفیق) was the son of HIH Princess Ashraf Pahlavi, the twin sister of Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi, and Ahmad Shafiq of Egypt.
In 1967 he married Maryam Eghbal, daughter of Manouchehr Eghbal, who was earlier married to one of his uncles, a half-brother of the Shah. They had two sons: HH Prince Nader Shafiq (born 15th March 1968) and HH Prince Dara Shafiq (born 1970).
Shahryar Shafiq was an Imperial Iranian Navy Captain, and the only member of the Pahlavi Dynasty who chose a military career. After the victory of the Islamic Revolution in February 1979, he was the only member of Dynasty to stay inside Iran and keep fighting against the Islamic revolutionaries, up to the point when he had to flee in a small boat from the Persian Gulf to Kuwait, under heavy fire.
After exile, he joined his family in Paris, France and began organizing a resistance movement inside Iran. He was assassinated in Paris on December 7, 1979, being shot twice in the head on the Rue Pergolese.[1]
[edit] See also
- HIM Reza Shah Pahlavi (His grandfather)
- HIM Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi (His uncle)
- HIH Princess Ashraf Pahlavi (His mother)
- HIH The Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi II (His first cousin)
[edit] References
[edit] External links
- The Boroumand Foundation
- Dialogue of Murder
- In Memory of Prince Shahryar Shafigh
- Prince Shahryar Shafiq's memorial webpage (photos)
- Prince Shahryar Shafiq (Persian)
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