Mehrdad Pahlbod, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Iranian politician
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Place of Birth: Tehran, Tehran Province, Iran
About Mehrdad Pahlbod
- Mehrdad Pahlbod (Persian: ?????? ??????; March 16, 1917 – August 9, 2018) was an Iranian royal and politician who served as the first culture minister of Persia from 1964 until the 1978.Mehrdad Pahlbod, born as Ezatollah Minbashian (Persian: ??? ???? ??? ???????), was also the second husband of Princess Shams Pahlavi.
- The couple secretly converted to Catholic Christianity from shia Islam in the 1950s in Egypt.Pahlbod was born in Tehran into the musical family of Minbashian.
- His father Gholam-Hossein Minbashian, a professional violinist was the conductor of Tehran City Hall Symphony Orchestra (later Tehran Symphony Orchestra) and the director of Tehran Conservatory of Music for years.
- Pahlbod studied architecture in Switzerland and in the late 1950s became the vice president of the Persian Fine Arts Administration in Tehran; an organisation which later became the Iranian Ministry of Culture.In the years after the 1979 Islamic Revolution, Pahlbod lived in exile in Los Angeles where he died on 9 August 2018 at the age of 101.
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