Shahriar Shafiq
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Prince Shahryar Shafiq (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.
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 with the Islamic revolutionaries, up to the point he had to flee with a small boat from the Persian Gulf under heavy fire.
After exile, he joined his family in Paris, France and began organizing a resistance movement inside Iran. He was finally assassinated in Paris on December 7, 1979.
His murder was the first among a series of high-profile assassinations that Islamic regime carried out to eliminate it's well-known and able opponents.
[edit] See also
- HIM Reza Shah Pahlavi (His grand-father)
- HIM Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi (His uncle)
- HIH Princess Ashraf Pahlavi (His mother)
- HIH The Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi II (His first cousin)
