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Iranian Contemporary History No. 60

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Betrothal of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and Farah Diba

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Ebrahim Hadidi

If the grounds for Mohammad Reza Shah and Fouzieh's marriage and divorce remained unknown to all, his marriage to Sorayya was completely clear. Their divorce was because she could not bear him a child. The royal family needed an heir, and the court a crown prince. So Sorayya Esfandiari Bakhtiari's tribe gave place to Farah Diba's family to bear a male child.

The hereditary system of monarchy left no place for "women's rights". Eventually, the crown prince was born; Reza Pahlavi, who was not doomed to be a Shah.

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Farah Diba betrothed to Mohammad Reza Pahlavi

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Farah Diba at her uncle's Mohammad Ali Qotbi going to visit Mohammad Reza Pahlavi at the court for the first time

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Farah Diba accompanied by Mohammad Ali Qotbi and GholamAli Seif Nasseri in her first visit to the court to see Mohammad Reza Pahlavi

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Farah Diba buying betrothal dress in Paris

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Farah Diba in her returning to Iran having bought betrothal dress from Paris: 1. Farah Diba, 2. Aboulfath Atabay, 3. Farideh Diba, 4. Louise Qotbi, 5. Mohammad Ali Qotbi

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Farah Diba betrothed to Mohammad Reza Pahlavi at the Opera Hall in Paris

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An interview of Ettela'at journalist with Farah Diba while she was betrothed to Mohammad Reza Pahlavi (Dec. 15th, 1959)

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Farah Diba at her uncle's Mohammad Ali Qotbi

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Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and Farah Diba, betrothed to each other at Reza Shah tomb

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Farah Diba going to the Marble Palace to attend her betrothal party with Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, from the right Ardeshir Zahedi, Farah Diba, and Farideh Diba

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Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and Farah Diba in their betrothal party at Marble Palace, from the right Taj-ol-Moluk Pahlavi, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and Farah Diba

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Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and Farah Diba's betrothal party at the Marble Palace, from the right: Ashraf Pahlavi, Shahnaz Pahlavi, Taj-ol-Moluk Pahlavi, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, and Farah Diba

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Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and Farah Diba betrothed to each other in the wedding party of Fatemeh Pahlavi and Mohammad Khatami: 1. Farah Diba, 2. Fatemeh Pahlavi, 3. Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, 4. Shahnaz Pahlavi, 5. Farideh Diba

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Farah Diba and some of her relatives reading the news of her betrothal to the Shah in the newspapers, from the right: 2. Louise Qotbi, 3. Farah Diba, 4. Mohammad Ali Qotbi

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