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Yasmine Pahlavi

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Yasmine Pahlavi
Pahlavi in 2023
BornYasmine Etemad-Amini
(1968-07-26) July 26, 1968 (age 58)
Tehran, Imperial State of Iran
Spouse
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(m. 1986)​
IssueNoor Pahlavi
Iman Pahlavi
Farah Pahlavi
HousePahlavi (by marriage)
FatherAbdollah Etemad-Amini
MotherForough Eftekhari

Yasmine Pahlavi (Persian: یاسمین پهلوی, née Etemad-Amini, Persian: اعتماد امینی; born July 26, 1968) is an Iranian attorney who is the wife of Reza Pahlavi, the former crown prince of the Imperial State of Iran.[1][2]

Biography

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Yasmine Etemad-Amini was born in Pars Hospital in Tehran in the Imperial State of Iran on July 26, 1968,[3][4] to Iranian businessman and leading member of the Constitutionalist Party of Iran[citation needed] Abdollah Etemad-Amini and his wife Forough Eftekhari.[2][5] She attended the private Tehran Community School until the Islamic revolution forced her family to leave Iran permanently. They settled in the San Francisco area of California, where she attended Notre Dame High School.

She is a graduate of George Washington University, obtaining a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science, and a Juris Doctor degree from its Law School. She is a member of the Maryland Bar Association.[3]

She worked for ten years as a staff attorney for Children's Law Center in Washington, D.C., representing the rights of at-risk and underprivileged youth.[6] She was also the co-founder and a director of the Foundation for the Children of Iran.[7][8] Founded in 1991, the purpose of the Foundation is to provide health care services to Iranian children or children of Iranian origin regardless of race, color, creed, religious or political affiliation. She resigned from her leadership role and any affiliation with the Foundation in February 2014.[9] In November 2018, she announced that she had breast cancer.[10]

Marriage and children

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Yasmine married Reza Pahlavi on June 12, 1986,[11][12] in Greenwich, Connecticut.[13] The couple have three daughters: Noor Zahra, Iman Laya, and Farah Mitra.[3][14][15] Pahlavi and her family live in the United States.[16]

References

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  1. ↑ Cooper, Andrew Scott (2 August 2016). The Fall of Heaven: The Pahlavis and the Final Days of Imperial Iran. Macmillan. p. 11. ISBN 978-0-8050-9897-6.
  2. 1 2 "Yasmine Pahlavi, Princesse héritière d'Iran – Qui est Yasmine Pahlavi ?". Point de vue (magazine) (in French). Retrieved 20 June 2025.
  3. 1 2 3 Hoseini, Mirhadi. "Iran Pahlavi dynasty". Teacher Training University, Tehran. Archived from the original on 2 September 2009. Retrieved 27 April 2010.
  4. ↑ Entekhabifard, Camelia (9 March 2021). "Crown Princess Yasmine Pahlavi: Iranian Women Will Play a Key Role in Taking Back our Country". Asharq AL-awsat. Retrieved 17 January 2023.
  5. ↑ "Reza Pahlavi". Time. 21 July 2008. Retrieved 20 June 2025.
  6. ↑ "Yasmine Pahlavi Attorney". Archived from the original on 30 March 2014. Retrieved 18 February 2014.
  7. ↑ "The Foundation for the Children of Iran". Childrenofiran.org. 1 April 2011. Archived from the original on 10 April 2010. Retrieved 22 October 2016.
  8. ↑ KADIVAR, Darius (6 August 2008). "YASMINE'S MISSION FOR IRAN'S CHILDREN". www.payvand.com. Archived from the original on 17 January 2023. Retrieved 17 January 2023.
  9. ↑ "The Foundation for the Children of Iran". Facebook. Retrieved 22 October 2016.
  10. ↑ "Video Interview With Yasmine Pahlavi, Wife of Prince Reza Pahlavi". Kayhan Life. 11 August 2020. Archived from the original on 21 December 2021. Retrieved 14 April 2021 – via YouTube.
  11. ↑ "Prince Reza Pahlavi and Princess Yasmine Pahlavi - Flickr - Photo Sha…". 18 February 2014.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)
  12. ↑ "Princess Yasmine Pahlavi of Iran". www.thepahlavidynasty.com. Archived from the original on 19 January 2025. Retrieved 17 January 2023.
  13. ↑ Pahlavi, Farah (2003). Kohan Diārā کهن دیارا (in Persian). Farzad. p. 462.
  14. ↑ "ROYALTY: Yasmine Pahlavi A Princess in Love | Iranian.com". iranian.com. Retrieved 17 January 2023.
  15. ↑ Fard, Camelia (28 October 2020). "شصت‌سالگی شاهزاده رضا پهلوی و چشم‌انداز حضور زنان در آینده ایران". Independent Farsi (in Persian). Retrieved 11 January 2026.
  16. ↑ Esfandiari, Golnaz. "In Iran, An Unlikely Champion For Cancer Awareness". RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty. Retrieved 17 January 2023.
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