Shahriar Shafiq
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| Born | 15 March 1945 Cairo, Egypt |
| Died | 7 December 1979 (aged 34) Paris, France |
| Spouse | Maryam Eghbal |
| Issue | Nader and Dara Shafiq |
| House | Pahlavi dynasty |
| Father | Ahmad Shafiq |
| Mother | Princess Ashraf Pahlavi |
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| Reference style | His Highness |
| Spoken style | Your Highness |
| Alternative style | Sir |
Shahriar Shafiq (Persian: شهریار شفیق ; 15 March 1945, Cairo, Egypt – 7 December 1979, Paris, France) was the son of Princess Ashraf Pahlavi, twin sister of the Shah of Iran, and Ahmad Shafiq.
Shafiq was born in Cairo on 15 March 1945. He was the son of Ashraf Pahlavi and Ahmad Shafiq, and brother of Azadeh Shafiq.
Shafiq was educated at the Royal Navy College in Dartmouth, the United Kingdom.
In 1967, Shafiq married Maryam Eghbal, the Christian daughter of Manouchehr Eghbal, who had married at age 18 to Mahmoud Reza Pahlavi in October 1964, one of his uncles and a half-brother of the Shah. Shafiq and Eghbal had two sons:
Shafiq was an Imperial Iranian Navy Captain. He and his cousin Prince Kamyar Pahlavi, son of Abdul Reza Pahlavi, were the only members of the Pahlavi Dynasty who chose military careers. Shafiq was the highest-ranking military officer in the Pahlavi family. He worked in the navy of Iran from 1963 to 1979. He served as the commander of the Persian Gulf fleet of Hovercraft before the 1979 revolution.
Additionally, Shafiq was the head of Judo and Karate federation of Iran during the reign of Muhammad Reza.
After the revolution of February 1979, he was the only member of the Pahlavi dynasty who stayed in Iran and kept fighting against the revolutionaries, up to the point when he had to flee in a small boat from the Persian Gulf to Kuwait, under heavy fire. He fled Iran in March 1979.
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