Amanullah Jahanbani

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Amanullah Jahanbani
Timsar Amanullah Jahanbani
	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 theIranian 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
Military service
Allegiance	Iran
Branch/service	Imperial Iranian Army
Years of service	1902–1937
Rank	Lieutenant general

Amanollah Jahanbani(Persian:امان الله جهانبانى;1891 – 1 February 1974) was a member of theQajar dynastyof Iran and a senior general ofReza Shah Pahlavi.

Early life and education

Jahanbani was born in 1895. He was the great grandson ofFath Ali Shah.^[1]At the age of 10, Jahanbani was sent toSt. Petersburgfor schooling, where he attended theMihailovsky Artillery Collegeand theNikolaevsky War Academy.^{[citation needed]}He returned to Iran as a ranked military officer inWorld War I.

Career

After completing his studies in Europe, Jahanbani joined theCossack forcesand became a major general.^[2]On 6 December 1921 Jahanbani was named the commander of gendarmerie headquarters following the dissolution of the Cossack Division byReza 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 inBalochistanattack to control the resistance.^[5]His path of success continued until 1938, when he fell out of favor and was thrown intothe Qasr prisonbyReza Shah Pahlavi.^[6]^{[additional citation(s) needed]}However, in 1941 he was named interior minister.^[7]

When Reza Shah was abdicatied duringWorld War II,he was appointed to the Senate during the era ofMohammad Reza Shah Pahlaviwhere he served during five consecutive periods.^[8]

Personal life and death

Jahanbani married twice. He had a total ofnine children, four children with his second wife, Helen Kasminsky:Nader,Parviz,Khosrow,and Mehr Moneer. Nader Jahanbani became the deputy head of theImperial Iranian Air Force,Parviz was an officer in the Imperial Iranian Marines, and Khosrow is the second husband of PrincessShahnaz Pahlavi.Amanullah Jahanbani is the father-in-law of Captain Nasrollah Amanpour, the uncle ofCNNjournalistChristiane Amanpour.^[9]

Jahanbani died in 1974, at the age of 83.

He wrote an autbiography titled "Iranian Soldier: Meaning of Water and Soil," which was published in 2001 with the help of his son,Parviz Jahanbani.^[10]

References

^"Centers of Power in Iran"(PDF).CIA.May 1972.Retrieved5 August2013.
^^a ^bAhmed 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 Archived21 December 2014 at theWayback MachineFars News
^""Iranian Soldier: Meaning of Water and ground"".

Other sources

'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).

[1] "Centers of Power in Iran"(PDF).CIA.May 1972.Retrieved5 August2013.

[ash12-2] 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.

[3] Stephanie Cronin (2006).Tribal Politics in Iran: Rural Conflict and the New State, 1921-1941.Routledge. p. 62.ISBN 978-1-134-13801-2.

[4] 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.

[5] 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.

[6] Ervand Abrahamian (1999).Tortured Confessions: Prisons and Public Recantations in Modern Iran.University of California Press. p. 46.ISBN 978-0-520-92290-7.

[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.

[8] 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.

[9] News Archived21 December 2014 at theWayback MachineFars News

[10] ""Iranian Soldier: Meaning of Water and ground"".

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