Yasmine Pahlavi Explained

Yasmine Pahlavi
Crown Princess of Iran (titular)
Birth Name:	Yasmine Etemad-Amini
Birth Date:	26 July 1968
Birth Place:	Tehran, Imperial State of Iran
Issue:	Noor Pahlavi Iman Pahlavi Farah Pahlavi
House:	Pahlavi (by marriage)
Father:	Abdullah Etemad-Amini
Mother:	Forough Eftekhari

Yasmine Pahlavi (Persian: یاسمین پهلوی, née Etemad-Amini, Persian: ; born 26 July 1968), is the wife of Reza Pahlavi, the former crown prince of the Imperial State of Iran.^{[1] [2]}

Biography

Yasmine Etemad-Amini was born in Pars Hospital in Tehran, Iran, on July 26, 1968.^{[3] [4]} She attended the private Tehran Community School until the rising tensions in the late 1970s forced her family to leave Iran permanently. They settled in the San Francisco area of California, where she attended and matriculated at Notre Dame High School.

She is a graduate of George Washington University, obtaining a BA 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.^[5] She was also the co-founder and a director of the Foundation for the Children of Iran.^{[6] [7]} 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.^[8] In November 2018, she announced that she had breast cancer.^[9]

Marriage and children

Yasmine married Reza Pahlavi on 12 June 1986,^{[10] [11]} and the couple have three daughters:^[12]

1. Noor Pahlavi, born 3 April 1992
2. Iman Pahlavi, born 12 September 1993
3. Farah Pahlavi, born 17 January 2004

The family lives in the United States.^[13]

Notes and References

1. Book: Cooper, Andrew Scott . The Fall of Heaven: The Pahlavis and the Final Days of Imperial Iran . 2016-08-02 . Macmillan . 978-0-8050-9897-6 . 11 . en.
2. Web site: Yasmine Pahlavi, Princesse héritière d'Iran - Biographie & actus . 2023-01-17 . . fr.
3. Web site: Hoseini . Mirhadi . Iran Pahlavi dynasty . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20090902132522/http://flh.tmu.ac.ir/hoseini/moaser/35.htm . 2009-09-02 . 2010-04-27 . Teacher Training University, Tehran.
4. Web site: Entekhabifard . Camelia . 2021-03-09 . Crown Princess Yasmine Pahlavi: Iranian Women Will Play a Key Role in Taking Back our Country . 2023-01-17 . Asharq AL-awsat . en.
5. Web site: Yasmine Pahlavi Attorney . 2014-02-18 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20140330204326/http://www.farahpahlavi.org/yasmine.html . 2014-03-30 .
6. Web site: 2011-04-01 . The Foundation for the Children of Iran . dead . 2016-10-22 . Childrenofiran.org . 10 April 2010 . https://web.archive.org/web/20100410051103/http://www.childrenofiran.org/foundationleadership .
7. Web site: KADIVAR . Darius . 2008-08-06 . YASMINE'S MISSION FOR IRAN'S CHILDREN . 2023-01-17 . www.payvand.com.
8. Web site: The Foundation for the Children of Iran . . 2016-10-22.
9. Web site: Video Interview With Yasmine Pahlavi, Wife of Prince Reza Pahlavi . https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211221/xu9KiiWXQQo . 2021-12-21 . live. Kayhan Life . 11 August 2020 . 14 April 2021 . YouTube.
10. Web site: Prince Reza Pahlavi and Princess Yasmine Pahlavi - Flickr - Photo Sha…. https://archive.today/20140218021001/http://www.flickr.com/photos/96891322@N06/8943603780/. dead. 18 February 2014. 18 February 2014.
11. Web site: Princess Yasmine Pahlavi of Iran . 2023-01-17 . www.thepahlavidynasty.com . en-gb.
12. Web site: ROYALTY: Yasmine Pahlavi A Princess in Love Iranian.com . 2023-01-17 . iranian.com.
13. News: In Iran, An Unlikely Champion For Cancer Awareness . 2023-01-17 . RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty . en. Esfandiari . Golnaz .