Prince Reza Pahlavi, Crown Prince of Iran (Persian: رضا پهلوی, born October 31, 1960) is the eldest son of the late Emperor of Iran Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and his Shahbanou Farah. He was the Crown Prince of Iran until the Iranian Revolution in 1979. Since than he has been a reformist and freedom activist. He succeeded his father as Head of the House of the Pahlavi dynasty and is currently the successor to the former Pahlavi throne of Iran. As such he is referred to by supporters as His Imperial Majesty Reza Shah II, though he does not use this style himself.

Biography In 1978, Reza Pahlavi left Iran and moved to the United States to complete his higher education. He was trained as a jet fighter pilot at the Reese Air Force Base in Lubbock, Texas, and attended Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts, before graduating with a degree in political science from the University of Southern California. He has not returned to Iran since the 1979 Iranian Revolution. After the revolution, Reza Pahlavi lived in exile in Morocco and Egypt until 1984, when he settled in the United States. In 2004, Reza Pahlavi was named as the "unofficial godfather" of Princess Louise of Belgium the eighth granddaughter of King Albert II of Belgium. The decision to choose him was criticized by the Foreign Ministry of the Islamic Republic. Family He married Yasmine Etemad Amini on June 12, 1986 and currently lives in Potomac, Maryland, with their three daughters: Noor (born April 3, 1992), Iman (born September 12, 1993), and Farah (born January 17, 2004). Pahlavi's siblings include Farahnaz Pahlavi (March 12, 1963), a brother Ali-Reza Pahlavi (April 28, 1966), as well as a half-sister, Shahnaz Pahlavi (October 27, 1940). His youngest sister, Leila, died of a drug overdose on June 10, 2001.