Khodadad Mirza Farman Farmaian

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Khodadad Mirza Farman Farmaian (8 May 1928[

Abdol Hossein Mirza Farmanfarma and his wife Hamdam Khanoum. During the Pahlavi dynasty era, he held the post of governor of the Central Bank of Iran
.

He was the chief architect of the 1960s Iranian economic boom. However, he often dismissed the Shah as incompetent. He fled during the 1979 revolution in Iran to London.[citation needed]

He died of lung cancer at the age of 87 in London, United Kingdom, on 16 December 2015.[1][2]

See also

References

  1. ^ "خداداد فرمانفرماییان، رئیس پیشین بانک مرکزی ایران درگذشت". BBC Persian.
  2. ^ Khodadad Farmanfarmaian

External links

Sources

  • Daughter of Persia;
    Sattareh Farman Farmaian
    with Dona Munker; Crown Publishers, Inc., New York, 1992
  • Blood and Oil: Memoirs of a Persian Prince; Manucher Mirza Farman Farmaian. Random House, New York, 1997.
Government offices
Preceded by
Mahdi Samii
Governor of the Central Bank of Iran
1969–1970
Succeeded by
Mahdi Samii