Khodadad Mirza Farman Farmaian

Khodadad Mirza Farman Farmaian (8 May 1928^{[citation needed]} – 16 December 2015) was the son of the Qajar Persian nobleman 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

• Iran
• History of Iran
• Qajar dynasty of Iran

References

1. "خداداد فرمانفرماییان، رئیس پیشین بانک مرکزی ایران درگذشت". BBC Persian. 16 December 2015.
2. Khodadad Farmanfarmaian

External links

• The Qajar (Kadjar) Pages
• Qajars Dynasty^{[permanent dead link‍]} Turkoman dynasty of Shahs of Iran

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