Amanollah Jahanbani (Persian: امان الله جهانبانى; 1891 – 1 February 1974) was a member of the Qajar dynasty of Iran and a senior general of Reza Shah Pahlavi.
Amanullah Jahanbani | |
|---|---|
امانالله جهانبانی | |
 Amanullah Jahanbani | |
| Minister of War | |
| In office 9 March 1942 – 9 August 1942 | |
| Monarch | Mohammad Reza Pahlavi |
| Prime Minister | Ali Soheili |
| Minister of Interior | |
| In office 27 August 1941 – 9 March 1942 | |
| Monarch | Mohammad Reza Pahlavi |
| Prime Minister | Mohammad Ali Foroughi |
| Minister of Roads | |
| In office 27 August 1941 – 9 March 1942 | |
| Monarch | Mohammad Reza Pahlavi |
| Prime Minister | Mohammad Ali Foroughi |
| Member of the Iranian Senate | |
| In office 19 August 1951 – 1 February 1974 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1891 Tehran, Iran |
| Died | 1 February 1974 (aged 83) Robat Karim, Tehran, Iran |
| Spouse | Helen Kasminsky |
| Children | Masoud Mirza, Hossein Mirza, Hamid Mirza, Nader, Majid, Parviz, Mahmoud, Khosrow, Mehr Monir |
| Military service | |
| Allegiance |  Iran |
| Branch/service | Imperial Iranian Army |
| Years of service | 1902–1937 |
| Rank | Lieutenant general |
Early life and education
editJahanbani was born in 1895. He was the great grandson of Fath Ali Shah.[1] At the age of 10, Jahanbani was sent to St. Petersburg for schooling, where he attended the Mihailovsky Artillery College and the Nikolaevsky War Academy.[citation needed] He returned to Iran as a ranked military officer in World War I.
Career
editAfter completing his studies in Europe, Jahanbani joined the Cossack forces and became a major general.[2] On 6 December 1921 Jahanbani was named the commander of gendarmerie headquarters following the dissolution of the Cossack Division by Reza Shah.[2] He was appointed the chief of the staff with the rank of brigadier general at the beginning of the 1920s.[3] As of 1925 he was the head of military academy.[4] In 1928, he led the army in Balochistan attack to control the resistance.[5] His path of success continued until 1938, when he fell out of favor and was thrown into the Qasr prison by Reza Shah Pahlavi.[6][additional citation(s) needed] However, in 1941 he was named interior minister.[7]
When Reza Shah was abdicatied during World War II, he was appointed to the Senate during the era of Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi where he served during five consecutive periods.[8]
Personal life and death
editJahanbani married twice. He had a total of nine children, four children with his second wife, Helen Kasminsky: Nader, Parviz, Khosrow, and Mehr Monir. Nader Jahanbani 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 Jahanbani is the father-in-law of Captain Nasrollah Amanpour, and the uncle of CNN journalist Christiane Amanpour.[9]
Jahanbani died in 1974, at the age of 83.
He wrote an autobiography titled "Iranian Soldier: Meaning of Water and Soil," which was published in 2001 with the help of his son, Parviz Jahanbani.[10]
References
edit- ^ "Centers of Power in Iran" (PDF). CIA. May 1972. Retrieved 5 August 2013.
- ^ a b Ahmed S. Hashim (Summer 2012). "The Iranian Armed Forces in Politics, Revolution and War: Part One". Middle East Policy. XIX (2): 112. doi:10.1111/j.1475-4967.2012.00538.x.
- ^ Stephanie Cronin (2006). Tribal Politics in Iran: Rural Conflict and the New State, 1921-1941. Routledge. p. 62. ISBN 978-1-134-13801-2.
- ^ Hooshmand Mirfakhraei (1984). The Imperial Iranian Armed Forces and the Revolution of 1978-1979 (PhD thesis). State University of New York at Buffalo. p. 62. ProQuest 303350420.
- ^ Naseer Dashti (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.
- ^ Ervand Abrahamian (1999). Tortured Confessions: Prisons and Public Recantations in Modern Iran. University of California Press. p. 46. ISBN 978-0-520-92290-7.
- ^ 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.
- ^ James A. Bill (1988). The Eagle and the Lion. The Tragedy of American-Iranian Relations. New Haven and London: Yale University Press. p. 99. doi:10.2307/1963329. ISBN 978-0-300-04412-6. JSTOR 1963329. S2CID 142331831.
- ^ News Archived 21 December 2014 at the Wayback Machine Fars News
- ^ ""Iranian Soldier: Meaning of Water and ground"".
Other sources
edit- 'Alí Rizā Awsatí (عليرضا اوسطى), Iran in the Past Three Centuries (Irān dar Se Qarn-e Goz̲ashteh - ايران در سه قرن گذشته), Volumes 1 and 2 (Paktāb Publishing - انتشارات پاکتاب, Tehran, Iran, 2003). ISBN 964-93406-6-1 (Vol. 1), ISBN 964-93406-5-3 (Vol. 2).