Last May in his capacity as Chief Supervisor of Iranian Students Abroad, the Shah's son-in-law Ardashir Zahedi discovered Farah Diba, the pretty young Iranian art student in Paris who last month ascended the Peacock Throne as the Shah's third wife (TIME, Jan. 4). Last week, for this and other services to the crown, tall, handsome Zahedi was appointed Iran's new Ambassador to the U.S.
At 31, Zahedi will be Washington's youngest ambassador. His father, General Fazlollah Zahedi, was the soldier who took over as Premier of Iran to restore order after weepy Mohammed Mossadegh's fall (the general is now Iran's...
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