Ali-Reza Pahlavi
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Prince Ali-Reza in 1976
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28 April 1966 Tehran, Iran |
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| Died | 4 January 2011 (aged 44) Boston, Massachusetts, United States |
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| Issue | Princess Iryana Leila | ||||
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| House | House of Pahlavi | ||||
| Father | Mohammad Reza Pahlavi | ||||
| Mother | Empress Farah Pahlavi | ||||
| Religion | Shi'a Islam | ||||
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| English: Ali-Reza Persian: علی رضا |
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Styles of Prince Ali-Reza of Iran |
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| Reference style | His Imperial Highness |
| Spoken style | Your Imperial Highness |
| Alternative style | Sir |
Prince Alireza Pahlavi (28 April 1966 – 4 January 2011) Persian: شاهزاده علیرضا پهلوی) was a member of the Pahlavi Imperial Family of Iran (Persia). He was the younger son of the former Shah of Iran and his third wife Farah Pahlavi. He was second in order of succession to the Iranian throne before the Iranian Revolution.
Prince Alireza Pahlavi was born on 28 April 1966. He attended the Niavaran Palace primary school in Iran but left Iran alongside his family after the Iranian revolution. He moved to the U.S. where he attended Saint David's School in New York City and Mt Greylock Regional High School in Williamstown, Massachusetts. Pahlavi received a BA degree from Princeton University, a MA degree from Columbia University, and was studying at Harvard University as a PhD student in ancient Iranian studies and philology at the time of his death.
He was engaged in 2001 to Sarah Tabatabai, but it seems that the relationship ended some time afterwards. He was once voted as one of the "world's most eligible princes."
On 4 January 2011, news outlets reported that Alireza Pahlavi had committed suicide in his South End Boston apartment after a long period of depression. Boston police said that he died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Police said officers responding to a 911 call found Pahlavi dead in his home shortly after 2 a.m. The official statement on the website of his brother Prince Reza Pahlavi read:
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