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{{Short description|Iranian royal dynasty (1925–1979)}}
{{About|the Iranian royal dynasty|the country under its rule|Pahlavi Iran}}
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{{Infobox family
| name = Pahlavi
| type = [[Royal house]]
| coat_of_arms = The Imperial Coat of Arms of Iran.svg
| coat_of_arms_size = 200px
| alt = Coat of arms of the Imperial State of Iran
| coat_of_arms_caption = [[Arms of dominion]] of the [[Shah]]s, and therefore [[coat of arms]], of [[Pahlavi Iran]] from 1932. The emblem of the dynasty is the mountain and sun in the blue circle in the middle.
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| origin = [[Mazandaran province|Mazandaran]]
| founded = {{Start date and age|1925|12|15|df=y}}
| founder = [[Reza Shah|Reza Shah Pahlavi]]
| current_head = [[Reza Pahlavi, Crown Prince of Iran|Reza Pahlavi]]
| final_ruler = [[Mohammad Reza Pahlavi]]
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| traditions = [[Shia Islam]]
| motto = {{lang|fa|مرا داد فرمود و خود داور است}}<br />{{transliteration|fa|Marā dād farmud o Khod dāvar ast}}
| motto_lang = [[Persian language|Persian]]
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The '''Pahlavi dynasty''' ({{langx|fa|خاندان پهلوی}}) was an [[List of monarchs of Iran|Iranian royal dynasty]] that was the [[Pahlavi Iran|last to rule Iran]] before the country's monarchy was overthrown by the [[Iranian Revolution]] in 1979. It was founded in 1925 by [[Reza Shah|Reza Shah Pahlavi]], a non-aristocratic Iranian soldier of [[Mazanderani people|Mazanderani]] origin,<ref>{{Cite book|last=Aghaie|first=Kamran Scot|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=egGgUM_YdL8C&dq=Reza+shah+is+Mazanderani&pg=PA49|title=The Martyrs of Karbala: Shi'i Symbols and Rituals in Modern Iran|date=1 December 2011|publisher=University of Washington Press|isbn=978-0-295-80078-3|language=en}}</ref> who took on the name of the [[Pahlavi scripts]] of the [[Middle Persian|Middle Persian language]] from the [[Sasanian Empire]] of [[Muslim conquest of Persia|pre-Islamic Iran]].{{cn|date=August 2025}} The dynasty largely espoused this form of [[Iranian nationalism]] rooted in the pre-Islamic era (notably based on the [[Achaemenid Empire]]) during its time in power, especially under its last king [[Mohammad Reza Pahlavi]].<ref>{{cite journal |last1=کوروش |first1=نوروز مرادی |last2=نوری |first2=مصطفی |title=سندی نویافته از نیای رضاشاه |journal=پیام بهارستان |date=1388 |volume=د۲،س ۱،ش۴ |url=http://ensani.ir/file/download/article/20101205103251-0%20(51).pdf}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=معتضد |first1=خسرو |title=تاج های زنانه |date=1387 |publisher=نشر البرز |location=تهران |isbn=9789644425974 |pages=46 47 48 49 50 51 جلد اول |edition=چاپ اول}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=نیازمند |first1=رضا |title=رضاشاه از تولد تا سلطنت |date=1387 |publisher=حکایت قلم نوین |location=تهران |isbn=9645925460 |pages=15 16 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 39 40 43 44 45 |edition=چاپ ششم}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=زیباکلام |first1=صادق |title=رضاشاه |date=1398 |publisher=روزنه،لندن:اچ انداس |location=تهران |isbn=9781780837628 |pages=61, 62 |edition=اول}}</ref>

The dynasty replaced the [[Qajar family|Qajar dynasty]] in 1925 after the [[1921 Persian coup d'état|1921 coup d'état]], beginning on 14 January 1921 when 42-year-old soldier Reza Khan was promoted by British General [[Edmund Ironside, 1st Baron Ironside|Edmund Ironside]] to lead the British-run [[Persian Cossack Brigade]].<ref name="GhaniGhanī2001">{{cite book|author1=Cyrus Ghani|author2=Sīrūs Ghanī|title=Iran and the Rise of the Reza Shah: From Qajar Collapse to Pahlavi Power|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VGZItY9kL0AC&pg=PA147|date=6 January 2001|publisher=I.B.Tauris|isbn=978-1-86064-629-4|pages=147–}}</ref> About a month later, under British direction, Reza Khan's 3,000–4,000 strong detachment of the Cossack Brigade reached [[Tehran]].<ref name=Zirinsky/><ref>Brysac, Shareen Blair. "A Very British Coup: How Reza Shah Won and Lost His Throne." ''World Policy Journal'' 24, no. 2 (2007): 90–103. Accessed 8 August 2021. http://www.jstor.org/stable/40210096</ref> The rest of the country was taken by 1923, and by October 1925 the [[Majlis]] agreed to depose and formally exile [[Ahmad Shah Qajar]]. The Majlis declared Reza Pahlavi as the [[List of monarchs of Iran|Shah of Iran]] on 12 December 1925, pursuant to the [[Persian Constitution of 1906]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://ajoudani.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=62&Itemid=27|title=Mashallah Ajudani|work=Ajoudani|access-date=17 January 2013|archive-date=22 October 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181022170922/http://ajoudani.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=62&Itemid=27|url-status=dead}}</ref> Initially, Pahlavi had planned to declare the country a republic, as his contemporary [[Mustafa Kemal Atatürk]] had done in [[Turkey]], but he abandoned the idea in the face of British and clerical opposition.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Curtis|first1=Glenn E.|last2=Hooglund|first2=Eric|author-link2=Eric Hooglund|title=Iran: A Country Study: A Country Study|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yPf_f7skJUYC&pg=PA27|publisher=Government Printing Office|isbn=978-0-8444-1187-3|page=27}}</ref>

The dynasty ruled Iran as an [[Absolute monarchy|Autocratic monarchy]], with a brief pluralistic period from 1941 to 1953, when Mohammed Mossadegh was [[1953 Iranian coup d'état|overthrown]], returning to authoritarianism, with a brief  [[Rastakhiz Party|one party state period]] until the dynasty was [[Iranian Revolution|removed from power]] in 1979.

==Family background==
{{See also|Pahlavi family tree}}
In 1878, Reza Khan was born at the village of [[Alasht]] in [[Savadkuh County]], Mazandaran Province. His parents were Abbas Ali Khan and Noushafarin Ayromlou.<ref name="Afkhami2008">{{cite book|author=Gholam Reza Afkhami|title=The Life and Times of the Shah|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pTVSPmyvtkAC&pg=PP2|access-date=2 November 2012|date=27 October 2008|publisher=University of California Press|isbn=978-0-520-25328-5|page=4}}</ref><ref name=Zirinsky>{{cite journal|last=Zirinsky|first=Michael P.|title=Imperial power and dictatorship: Britain and the rise of Reza Shah, 1921-1926|journal=International Journal of Middle East Studies|year=1992|volume=24|issue=4|pages=639–663|url=http://scholarworks.boisestate.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1001&context=history_facpubs&sei-redir=1&referer=http%3A%2F%2Fscholar.google.com%2Fscholar%3Fstart%3D20%26q%3Dlife%2Bof%2Bshah%2Bmohammed%2Breza%26hl%3Den%26as_sdt%3D0%2C5#search=%22life%20shah%20mohammed%20reza%22|access-date=2 November 2012|doi=10.1017/s0020743800022388|s2cid=159878744 |url-access=subscription}}</ref> His mother was a Muslim immigrant from [[Georgia (country)|Georgia]] (then part of the [[Russian Empire]])<ref>{{cite book |quote="(..) His mother, who was of Georgian origin, died not long after, leaving Reza in her brother's care in Tehran. (...)."|title=The Life and Times of the Shah|first1= Gholam Reza |last1=Afkhami |publisher= University of California Press | date = 2009 |page=4 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |quote="(...) His mother, Nush Afarin, was a Georgian Muslim immigrant (...)."|title=The Pahlavi Dynasty: An Entry from Encyclopaedia of the World of Islam |author= GholamAli Haddad Adel |publisher= EWI Press | date = 2012 |page=3 |display-authors=etal}}</ref> whose family had emigrated to mainland [[Qajar Iran]] after Iran was forced to cede all of its territories in the [[Caucasus]] following the [[Russo-Persian Wars]] several decades prior to Reza's birth.<ref>Homa Katouzian. [https://books.google.com/books?id=FzVANM0p29kC&dq=reza+shahs+mother+georgian&pg=PA269 "State and Society in Iran: The Eclipse of the Qajars and the Emergence of the Pahlavis"] I.B.Tauris, 2006. {{ISBN|978-1845112721}} p 269</ref> His father was a [[Mazanderani people|Mazandarani]], commissioned in the 7th [[Savadkuh County|Savadkuh]] Regiment, and served in the [[Anglo-Persian War]] in 1856.

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==Pahlavi monarchs, regents, and heads of the house==
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{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"
!Number!! Picture
!Name!!Title!! Family relations !! Lifespan !! Reigned from/ Assumed title !! Reigned until/ Relinquished title !! Reign duration{{efn| Full years reigned}}
|-
! | I
| [[File:Reza Shah portrait (3x4 cropped).jpg|80px|Reza Shah]] 
| {{small|[[Shah]]}}<br>[[Reza Shah|'''Reza Pahlavi''']]
| King (Shah)
|—
| 1878–1944<br>(aged {{age|1878-03-15|1944-07-26}})
| 15 December 1925
| 16 September 1941<br><small>([[Reza Shah#World War II and forced abdication|abdicated]])</small>
| 15 years
|-
! rowspan="2" | II
| rowspan="2" | [[File:Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi 1973 (3x4 cropped).jpg|80px|Mohammad Reza Shah]]
| rowspan="2" | {{small|[[Shah]]}}<br>'''[[Mohammad Reza Pahlavi]]'''
| rowspan="2" | King (Shah)
| rowspan="2" | Son of Reza Pahlavi
| rowspan="2" | 1919–1980<br>(aged {{age|1919-10-26|1980-07-27}})
| rowspan="2" | 16 September 1941
| 11 February 1979<br><small>([[Iranian revolution|''deposed'']])</small>
| rowspan="2" | 37 years
|-
| style="background-color: #EBEBEB;" | 27 July 1980<br><small>([[Death|''died'']])</small>
|-
! | —
| style="background-color: #EBEBEB;" | [[File:Shahbanu of Iran (3x4 cropped).jpg|80px]]
| style="background-color: #EBEBEB;" | {{small|[[Shahbanu]]}}<br>'''[[Farah Pahlavi]]'''<br>({{nee|Diba}})
| style="background-color: #EBEBEB;" | Regent
| style="background-color: #EBEBEB;" | Third wife and widow of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
| style="background-color: #EBEBEB;" | 1938–current<br>(age {{age|1938-10-14}}) 
| style="background-color: #EBEBEB;" | 27 July 1980<br>
| style="background-color: #EBEBEB;" | 31 October 1980<br><small>(''regency expired'')</small>
| —
|-
! | III
| style="background-color: #EBEBEB;" | [[File:Crown Prince of IRAN Reza PAHLAVI EP-146067A AR2 (cropped).jpg|80px|Reza Pahlavi, Crown Prince of Iran]]
| style="background-color: #EBEBEB;" | {{small|[[Crown Prince]]}}<br>[[Reza Pahlavi, Crown Prince of Iran|'''Reza Pahlavi''']]{{efn|name=Reza_II|"'''Reza II'''" [[Pretender|in pretense]].}}
| style="background-color: #EBEBEB;" | Head of the House of Pahlavi
| style="background-color: #EBEBEB;" | Son of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and Farah Pahlavi
| style="background-color: #EBEBEB;" | 1960–current<br>(age {{age|1960-10-31}}) 
| style="background-color: #EBEBEB;" | 31 October 1980<br>
| style="background-color: #EBEBEB;" | ''Incumbent''
| —
|-
| colspan=2 | [[File:The Imperial Coat of Arms of Iran.svg|80px]] || colspan=3 | '''Pahlavi dynasty'''
|| 1878–current<br>(aged {{age|1878-03-15}})
|| 15 December 1925
|| 11 February 1979
|| 53 years
|}
{{notelist}}

===Reign of Pahlavi monarchs and tenure of later pretenders; and their lifespan<ref>{{cite web |last=Pahlavi |first=Reza |date= |title=About Reza Pahlavi|url=https://www.rezapahlavi.org/about}}</ref><ref>* {{Cite book |last=Kazemzadeh |first=Masoud |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JJZuEAAAQBAJ |title=The Iran National Front and the Struggle for Democracy |publisher=Walter de Gruyter GmbH |year=2022 |isbn=978-3-11-078205-9|pages=123-124}}</ref>===
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== Consorts ==
{{Legend|#EBEBEB| – In pretence}}
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"
!Number
! Picture
! Name
! Father
! Lifespan
! Marriage
! Became consort
! Ceased to be consort
! [[List of monarchs of Persia|Spouse]]
|-
!I
| [[File:Taj ol-Molouk - queen of Persia (3x4 cropped).jpg|80px]]
| '''[[Tadj ol-Molouk]]'''
| [[Teymūr Khan Ayromlou]]
| 1896–1982
| 1916
| rowspan=2|15 December 1925
| rowspan=2|16 September 1941
(''husband abdicated'')
| rowspan="2" |[[Reza Shah|Reza Pahlavi]]
|-
!II
| [[File:Esmat Dowlatshahi (3x4 cropped).jpg|80px]]
| '''[[Esmat Dowlatshahi]]'''
| Gholam Ali Mirza Dowlatshahi
| 1905–1995
| 1923
|-
!III
|[[File:Princess Fawzia Fuad of Egypt by Armand (3x4 cropped).jpg|80px]]
|[[Fawzia of Egypt|Princess '''Fawzia of Egypt''']]
|[[Fuad I of Egypt]]
|1921–2013
|1939
|16 September 1941 
|17 November 1948
(''divorced'')
| rowspan="4" |[[Mohammad Reza Shah|Mohammad Reza Pahlavi]]
|-
!IV
|[[File:Soraya Esfandiary-Bakhtiari-045 (3x4 cropped).jpg|80px]]
|'''[[Soraya Esfandiary-Bakhtiary]]'''
|[[Khalil Esfandiary-Bakhtiary]]
|1932–2001
| colspan="2" |12 February 1951 
|15 March 1958
(''divorced'')
|-
! rowspan="2" |V
| rowspan="2" |[[File:Shahbanu of Iran (3x4 cropped).jpg|80px]]
| rowspan="2" |'''[[Farah Diba]]'''
| rowspan="2" |Sohrab Diba
| rowspan="2" |1938–current 
| colspan="2" |21 December 1959<br><small>(''as queen consort'')</small>
| 11 February 1979<br><small>(''[[1979 Iranian revolution|husband was deposed]]'')</small>
|-
| colspan="2" |26 October 1967<br><small>(''as [[Shahbanu|empress consort]]'')</small>
| style="background-color: #EBEBEB;" |27 July 1980<br><small>([[widow]]ed)</small>
|-
| colspan="9" style="background-color: #EBEBEB;" |''Office vacant from 27 July 1980 to 12 June 1986''
|-
!VI
| style="background-color: #EBEBEB;" |[[File:MG-1587 (3x4 cropped).jpg|80px]]
| style="background-color: #EBEBEB;" |'''[[Yasmine Etemad-Amini]]'''
| style="background-color: #EBEBEB;" |Abdullah Etemad-Amini
| style="background-color: #EBEBEB;" |1968–current
| colspan="2" style="background-color: #EBEBEB;" |12 June 1986
| style="background-color: #EBEBEB;" |''Incumbent''
| style="background-color: #EBEBEB;" |[[Reza Pahlavi, Crown Prince of Iran|Reza Pahlavi]]
|}
[[File:Portrait of H.I.M. Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi.jpg|alt=|thumb|Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi 1960s]]

== Heirs ==
[[File:Prince Alireza Pahlavi.jpg|thumb|[[Ali Reza Pahlavi (born 1922)|Prince Ali-Reza Pahlavi]], the heir presumptive until his death in 1954]]
The <!--Given this constitution was passed when the Qajars were still in power, I imagine this is the result of an ammendment, which one and when was it passed?--> [[Persian Constitution of 1906|1906 constitution of Iran]] specifically provided that only a male who was not descended from the [[Qajar family|Qajar dynasty]] could become the [[heir apparent]].<ref name="Dareini">{{cite book |last1=Dareini |first1=Ali Akbar |title=The rise and fall of the Pahlavi dynasty |year=1999 |isbn=81-208-1642-0 |page=446 |publisher=Motilal Banarsidass Publ. |quote=2. The Shah gives another account for his separation with Fawzia. "For reasons still obscure to medical science, Queen Fawzia bore only one child; thus unfortunately no male heir issued from our marriage. Under the Persian Constitution the crown must pass by direct line of descent to a male heir. This rules out not only my daughter but also my three sisters. The Constitution further stipulates that no one descended from the previous Qajar dynasty is eligible to become king. Since two of my father’s wives were of Qajar blood, my half-brothers who are their sons are ineligible. In fact I had only one brother not related to the Qajar line, and to my sorrow he was to die in an aeroplane crash in 1954. With these limitations it is no wonder that my advisors felt it important for my wife to bear a son. It is true that the Constitution might have been amended, but the dimate of opinion seemed opposed to tampering with the provisions relating to the royal succession. Besides, I was young and, quite apart from the constitutional factor, I wanted more children. When Queen Fawzia went to Egypt on an extended stay, we decided on a divorce." Please see Mission for My Country His Imperial Majesty Mohammad Reza Shah Pahiavi, Hutchinson and Co. (Publishers) Ltd., London, 1961–1968; pp. 219–220}}</ref> This made all half-brothers of [[Mohammad Reza Pahlavi|Mohammad Reza]] ineligible to become heirs to the throne.<ref name="Dareini"/> Until his death in 1954, the Shah's only full brother [[Prince Ali Reza Pahlavi (born 1922)|Ali Reza]] was his [[heir presumptive]].<ref name="Dareini"/> The constitution also required the Shah to be of [[Iranian peoples|Iranian]] descent, meaning that his father and mother are Iranian.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Hoyt|first1=Edwin Palmer |title=The Shah: The Glittering Story of Iran and Its People|publisher=P. S. Eriksson|year=1976 |isbn=9780839777533|page=49}}</ref>

=== Line of succession in February 1979 ===
{{Tree list}}
* [[File:Simple silver crown.svg|15px]] ''[[Reza Shah Pahlavi]] (1878–1944)''
**{{Tree list/final branch}}[[File:Simple gold crown.svg|15px]] '''[[Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi]]''' (1919–1980)
***'''(1)''' [[Reza Pahlavi, Crown Prince of Iran|Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi]] (b. 1960)
***{{Tree list/final branch}} '''(2)''' [[Ali Reza Pahlavi (born 1966)|Prince Ali-Reza Pahlavi]] (1966)
**{{Tree list/final branch}} ''[[Ali Reza Pahlavi (born 1922)|Prince Ali-Reza Pahlavi]] (1922–1954)''
***{{Tree list/final branch}} '''(3)''' [[Patrick Ali Pahlavi|Prince Patrick Ali Pahlavi]] (b. 1947)
****{{Tree list/final branch}} '''(4)''' Prince Davoud Pahlavi (b. 1972)
****{{Tree list/final branch}} '''(5)''' Prince Houd Pahlavi (b. 1973)
****{{Tree list/final branch}} '''(6)''' Prince Mohammad Pahlavi (b. 1976)
{{Tree list/end}}

=== Current line of succession ===
{{Tree list}}
* [[File:Simple silver crown.svg|15px]] ''[[Reza Shah Pahlavi]] (1878–1944)''
**{{Tree list/final branch}}[[File:Simple gold crown.svg|15px]]  ''[[Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi]]'' (1919–1980)
***'''[[Reza Pahlavi, Crown Prince of Iran|Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi]]''' (b. 1960)
***{{Tree list/final branch}} ''[[Ali Reza Pahlavi (born 1966)|Prince Ali-Reza Pahlavi]] (1966–2011)''
**{{Tree list/final branch}} ''[[Ali Reza Pahlavi (born 1922)|Prince Ali-Reza Pahlavi]] (1922–1954)''
***{{Tree list/final branch}} '''(1)''' [[Patrick Ali Pahlavi|Prince Patrick Ali Pahlavi]] (b. 1947)
****{{Tree list/final branch}} '''(2)''' Prince Davoud Pahlavi (b. 1972)
****{{Tree list/final branch}} '''(3)''' Prince Houd Pahlavi (b. 1973)
*****{{Tree list/final branch}} '''(4)''' Prince Rafaël Pahlavi (b. 2006)
****{{Tree list/final branch}} '''(5)''' Prince Mohammad Pahlavi (b. 1976)
{{Tree list/end}}

=== List of crown princes ===
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"
!colspan=2| Name !! Portrait !! Relationship to monarch !! Became heir !! Ceased to be heir; reason 
|-
|colspan="6" |''Office vacant from 15 December 1925 to 24 April 1926''
|-
! | 1
| [[Mohammad Reza Pahlavi]] || [[File:Crown Prince Mohammad Reza Pahlavi (3x4 cropped).jpg|80px|Mohammad Reza Shah]] || Eldest son || 25 April 1926<ref name="LOC">{{Cite book |last1 = Curtis |first1 = Glenn |url = https://archive.org/details/irancountrystudy00curt_2/page/195 |last2 = Hooglund |first2 = Eric |title = Iran, a country study |place = Washington, D.C., US |publisher = Library of Congress |date = April 2008 |page =186 |isbn = 978-0-8444-1187-3 }}</ref> || 16 September 1941<br>
(''Became king'')
|-
|colspan="6" |''Office vacant from 16 September 1941 to 26 October 1967''
|-
! | 2
| [[Reza Pahlavi, Crown Prince of Iran|Reza Pahlavi II]] || [[File:Reza Pahlavi Crown Prince of Iran 1973 (3x4 close cropped).jpg|80px|Reza Pahlavi, Crown Prince of Iran]] || Eldest son || 1 November 1960 (''proclaimed'')<ref name="LOC"/> 
----
26 October 1967 (''designated'')<ref name="LOC"/> 
|| 11 February 1979<br>
(''Father deposed'')
|}

==Royal jewels==
{{Main|Pahlavi Crown|Empress's Crown|Iranian Crown Jewels}}

==Monuments==
{{Main|Mausoleum of Reza Shah|Shahyad Tower}}

==Use of titles==
{{unreferenced section|date=June 2021}}
*[[Shah|Shâh]]: Emperor, followed by Shâhanshâh of Iran, with style ''His Imperial Majesty''
*[[Shahbanu|Shahbânu]]: Shahbânu or Empress, followed by first name, followed by "of Iran", with style ''Her Imperial Majesty''
*Valiahd: Crown Prince of Iran, with style ''His Imperial Highness''
*Younger sons: Prince (Shâhpūr, or King's Son), followed by first name and surname (Pahlavi), and style ''His Imperial Highness''.
*Daughters: Princess (Shâhdokht, or King's Daughter), followed by first name and surname (Pahlavi), and style ''Her Imperial Highness''.
*Children of the monarch's daughter/s use another version of Prince (Vâlâ Gohar, "of superior essence") or Princess (Vâlâ Gohari), which indicate descent in the second generation through the female line, and use the styles ''His Highness'' or ''Her Highness''. This is then followed by first name and father's surname, whether he was royal or a commoner. However, the children by the last Shah's sister Fatemeh, who married an American businessman as her first husband, are surnamed Pahlavi Hillyer and do not use any titles.

==See also==
{{Portal|Iran|Monarchy|Modern history}}
*[[List of Shia dynasties]]
*[[List of Muslim states and dynasties]]
*[[Imperial Standards of Iran]]
*[[Monarchism in Iran]]
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==References==
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== External links ==
* {{Commons category-inline|Pahlavi dynasty}}

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